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raindrops in water — expanding rings — 2 dimensional — surface articulation (relate to music?)
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serra - 'tilted arc' — commissioned by a federal bureaucracy — the support system of capitalism — it seems totally hypocritical to accept this commission — and then pretend to be subverting it — at the expense of the workers — it seems critics like crimp’s responses should have been — the work should not have been built there — the commission should not have been accepted
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“outside of the confines of art institutions” — wrong — and why is the bureaucracy that supports capitalism better than an art institution (fort worth museum (a great serra work))
museum shows throughout his ‘career’ (his ‘career’ in art — isn’t there something wrong with art being a career — or a job (andre — also bullshit))
(book published 1993 — situate this — i think some of my notebooks i’ve been working on were from that time (5/93?))

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it would not have been the sculpture ‘strike’ — but the name is arbitrary and the location also — it would have been a sculpture in any position

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all art is arbitrary choice — and successful by chance
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“this conflict between the product of heavy industry, which is <?> for luxury consumption, and the <?> of its ….”

what is the conflict —
what is a luxury object —
what is the difference between the luxury consumption of an object for a private home and a public commission made without the input of the public — the art’s arrogant and aggressive and i don’t like that — i do like the art[work] — there are many non controversial places that the art could be placed — (a large plate of steel (‘strike’) in a field like storm king vs federal plaza —) (aside on de suvero)
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