Larry Poons: Galleries

Larry Poons in Conversation with Karen Wilkin. The following interview was produced in collaboration with MediaCombo to complement "Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975," an exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts. Recorded in New York in 2007, this interview-divided into eight episodes-features painter Larry Poons in a rare conversation with the exhibition's guest curator, Karen Wilkin.

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Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard. They were found nestling together in their super yachts in Venice for this year's spectacular art biennale. Venice is now firmly on the calendar of this new art world, alongside St Barts at Christmas and St Tropez in August, in a giddy round of glamour-filled socialising, from one swanky party to another. Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich. Advertisement Do any of these people actually enjoy looking at art? Or do they simply enjoy having easily recognised, big-brand name pictures, bought ostentatiously in auction rooms at eye-catching prices, to decorate their several homes, floating and otherwise, in an instant demonstration of drop-dead coolth and wealth. Their pleasure is to be found in having their lovely friends measuring the weight of their baubles, and being awestruck. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/dec/02/saatchi-hideousness-art-world

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It was when I saw promotions for art-buying shares I knew the art world was completely corrupt; these people don't want to see it or own it, just get a 'return' on it. UGLY.