Hiyas, Might interest, a somehow curious interview with JK: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2015/08/jeff-koons-high-art-plain-extravagance-150820152940671.html
Reminded me a recent chat I have had, with a certain Berlin based curator, who assured in no uncertain terms: "I Know these people [rulers of Gulf states] are despots. They are not very nice people. They have slaves and they are brutal towards any opposition. They run lawless states where rules are arbitrary and many people get hurt. They treat women worst than objects and are a bunch of some of the worst people I can think of. HOWEVER, they give money to art! They think of art only in terms of money. With them, if I want to do a project, we are talking hundreds of thousands of Euros, sometimes millions - not crumbs like 5k euros here and there. So.. Should I not work for them??" Mind, the person I spoke before that, told me about Mafia funded galleries.. In some ways, it was a sort of preparation.. Should really stay clear from curiously looking openings in places am clueless about.. ;) Cheers and Have fun!! ahar0n xx _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
