Gauguin is creepy - let's just face it. He goes off into the Pacific, and he's looking at these young girls, and the colonial gaze: It's just really problematic.
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I began to really interrogate the act of looking.
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.
