15 years after it was coined, the term RA has perhaps saddled the art it purports to group together with unrealistic or inappropriate expectations. Ms. Smith may have put it best in her 2008 review of “theanyspacewhatever” when she wrote that “the claims by these artists and advocates that their work can help heal human relations and create a sense of community, any more than any other art does, are hard to prove.
The Fall of Relational Aesthetics,” Andrew Russeth for the New York Observer. (via jenlindblad)
About art that is sometimes good but associated with bad philosophy, with a touch of car-theft.
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