Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine

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Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine – Nymag

I went to Venice, and I came back worried. Every two years, the central attraction of the Biennale is a kind of State of the Art World show. This year’s, called “Illuminations,” has its share of high points and ­artistic intensity. (Frances Sta […]

via New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/venice-biennale-2011-6/

There’s always conformity in art—fashions come in and out—but such obsessive devotion to a previous generation’s ideals and ideas is very wrong. It suggests these artists are too much in thrall to their elders, excessively satisfied with an insider’s game of art, not really making their own work. That they are becoming a Lost Generation.