d’Arte Board

You can follow the movement here.

From their statement:

NATIONAL ART HATE WEEK is a call for direct action against the mass acceptance of art as a false economy for the smug manipulative elite and their ensuing grip of control over culture as a tool for mediated emotion, market lead non-critical homogeny, and boring popularism.

My favorite part of their manifesto, is “If a child offers you a painting during NATIONAL ART HATE WEEK you are to turn away in disgust.”

And then of course they call for propaganda to support their cause.

I think this is funny, but the artworld is dangerously close to hitting some sort of saturation point with irony, isn’t it? Hipsters already embraced a sort of meta-irony a while ago, if we break through the meta-meta-irony wall, I’m worried that reality itself could break down. Sincerity itself seems to have been left entirely to the patrons of “boring populism” that this group has been created to fight. Everyone else is being pressed to pick a side.

I’ll let each of you choose who you side with.

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