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You should see art more! James Turrell, Jeff Koons, and Anish Kapoor, all referenced in the article, all have lovely works, and are all very popular and influe

You should see art more! James Turrell, Jeff Koons, and Anish Kapoor, all referenced in the article, all have lovely works, and are all very popular and influential, both with the gallery-going public, and with artists. The article features a work by Catherine Opie, that is hard to look at. I recently saw a collection of her mid-1990s photos of LA freeways, taken of less-trafficked interchanges in the wee hours — no cars. They are lovely, architectural abstractions, and very different from the piece shown. She has another series of storefronts that is just as beautiful and closely observed, but also not shown. http://jamesturrell.com/work/type/projection-pieces/ http://jamesturrell.com/work/type/projection-pieces/ https://www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/topic/freeways https://www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/topic/freeways

deogeo 7y ago
> You should see art more! The more art I see, the more I dislike modern art (yes yes, ambiguous label, sue me). The best I could say about the art of the artists you mentioned is that some of it is interesting, though not very. But when compared to masterpieces such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton#/media/File:Lord_Frederic_Leighton_-_Cymon_and_Iphigenia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton#/media/File:... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_Ivan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_..., I'd get upset that galleries would waste more than a few square feet on modern art, to say nothing of the current sorry state of affairs.