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Felipe Lima — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:13:25 +0000

Tough Guy Challenge 2010

Felipe Lima — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:31:49 +0000

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Baby Gibbon

Felipe Lima — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:09:52 +0000

Ursula Andress

Felipe Lima — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:22:36 +0000

Nicki Minaj

Felipe Lima — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:03:14 +0000

Opera Holding Back Tears

Felipe Lima — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:19:00 +0000

‘Beyond Bauhaus, Faces of War,’ Xanti Schawinsky at Broadway 1602

Felipe Lima — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:16:03 +0000

The Craftsman Builder

Felipe Lima — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:49:04 +0000

Zacuto Z-Finder

Felipe Lima — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:34:57 +0000

Apple iPad

Felipe Lima — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:39:20 +0000

Mickey Mouse Hand Model Sheet

Felipe Lima — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:42:04 +0000

Minnie Riperton ‘Perfect Angel’

Felipe Lima — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:51:04 +0000

Best Club Photos of 2009

Felipe Lima — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:11:37 +0000

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – January 17, 2010

Felipe Lima — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:58:47 +0000

Times

Felipe Lima — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:12:58 +0000

Magnetism

Felipe Lima — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:51:46 +0000

Caleb Charland

Free Angela

Felipe Lima — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:30:07 +0000

Tour Eiffel

Felipe Lima — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:25:08 +0000

Bagel to Go

Felipe Lima — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:14:44 +0000

The General

Felipe Lima — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:16:23 +0000

Butterfly Elephant

Felipe Lima — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:13:38 +0000

Death to the KKK

Felipe Lima — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:32:42 +0000

Stone Wolf

Felipe Lima — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:59:03 +0000

Get uw parking on

Felipe Lima — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:29:40 +0000

Does money manipulate art?

Felipe Lima — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:17:48 +0000

Transcript:

DOES MONEY MANIPULATE ART?

Does money manipulate galleries?
Do galleries manipulate artists?
Do artists manipulate art?

Why do artists allow themselves to be manipulated?
Why do artists allow their work to be translated into money values?
Why can’t artists be independent of gallery-fabricated trends?
Because the gallery provides their only means of subsistence from their work?

What does the artist want besides subsistence?
Is the artist’s final goal money?
If not, what is it?
Love? Fame(i.e. temporary notoriety)? Immortality?

Does the artist care what anybody thinks about his work?
Does the artist care if anybody understands his work?
Who is the artist’s public?
Other artists?
Critics?Curators? Dealers? Collectors?
Everybody else?

How much fame does an artist need? one year? ten years? the top lO? the top 40?
How much fame can an artist take?
How much of an artist can fame take?
Is fame limited to saleability?
Is fame better than immortality?
Can immortality be a valid goal in a nuclear ego?
Can immortality be bought? simulated?

What are the steps to immortality?
Studio~gallery-publicity-reproduction-private collection-public museum?
Which of these steps are really necessary?
Is being in museums enough for an artist?
Is being in galleries enough for an artist?
Is the gallery with its monetary basis a natural vehicle for art?

Do artists love their dealers because they do their dealing?
Do dealers love their artists or do they love the money they make from art and artists?
Is art making love to oneself, to another, to others?

Is art a career (career=”highway, a running from or to,carting,
carrying “) ?
Is a career carousing
Are galleries pimps for carousing artists cruising immortality ?

Are galleries selling art or selling artists?
Are collectors buying art or buying artists?
Are collectors collecting art or collecting commodities?
Is art an investment? a social status symbol? decoration? fashion?

Art artists in galleries making art or commodities?
If there were no art market would artists make art?
Should art look valuable, cheap, or priceless?
Is art that’s worth money commercial art?
Is commercial art fine art?
Does commercial art aspire to immortality?

Is art that’s worth a lot of money worth more than other art?
Is it worth a lot of money because its better than other art?
Should art be sold? should art be given away?
Should society support artists so they can give away their art?
Should all human beings support all human beinas?

Should art be free?
Can artists be free?

FROM THE ART WORKERS COALITION JUNE 1969
Box 553 Old Chelsea Station N.Y.C. 10011

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Felipe Lima — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:20:02 +0000

Hand Held Heart

Felipe Lima — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:37:02 +0000

Milk __ Pints Please

Felipe Lima — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:46:56 +0000

Lucy’s Lemon Squares

Felipe Lima — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:17:27 +0000

Empty LA, Matt Logue

Felipe Lima — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:33:15 +0000

Unknown Treasures

Felipe Lima — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:55:22 +0000

‘Looking’ by Michelle Blade

Felipe Lima — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:06:53 +0000

Gun Show

Felipe Lima — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:41:17 +0000

Peacock, Terrence Koh

Felipe Lima — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:47 +0000

Air Jordan

Felipe Lima — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:36:43 +0000

Fake Tooth Don’t Glow

Felipe Lima — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:46:55 +0000

California Dreamin’

Felipe Lima — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:23:40 +0000

Amy Puliafito

Flash’s Car

Felipe Lima — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:57:58 +0000

Sichuan, China

Felipe Lima — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:43:05 +0000

N.Y.C. Sewer

Felipe Lima — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:59:32 +0000

Moon and wooden music box

Felipe Lima — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:48:39 +0000

Boys with Bones

Felipe Lima — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:11:34 +0000

‘Heaven and hell are just one breath away!’ by Andy Warhol

Felipe Lima — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:40:46 +0000

Aaron Feaver, ‘Los Angeles, I’m Yours’

Felipe Lima — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:52:17 +0000

Bulbs

Felipe Lima — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:51:21 +0000

Mari Menempel

Felipe Lima — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:28:33 +0000

Eyes Poster from Sally Cruikshank’s ‘Make Me Psychic’

Felipe Lima — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:55:19 +0000

Rapports de longueurs et de masses

Felipe Lima — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:07:52 +0000

Hi!

Felipe Lima — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:10:34 +0000

Bats

Felipe Lima — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:20:14 +0000