{"id":1344,"date":"2012-05-04T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2012-05-04T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T17:35:27","slug":"please-read-nod-head-vigorously-grin-with-delight-pass-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"Please read. Nod vigorously. Grin. Pass along."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/im-sick-of-pretending-i-dont-get-art\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1345\" title=\"img_85461-635x476\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_85461-635x476.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_85461-635x476.jpg 635w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_85461-635x476-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From &#8220;I&#8217;m Sick of Pretending. I Don&#8217;t Get Art.&#8221; from someone with a Ph.D. in art:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know what? I&#8217;m sick of pretending. I went to art school, wrote a dissertation called &#8220;The Elevation of Art Through Commerce: An Analysis of Charles Saatchi&#8217;s Approach to the Machinery of Art Production Using Pierre Bourdieu&#8217;s Theories of Distinction&#8221;, have attended art openings at least once a month for the last five years, even fucking purchased pieces of it, but the other night, after attending the opening of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/tracey\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Emin retrospective<\/a> at the Hayward Gallery, I&#8217;m finally ready to come out and say it: I just don&#8217;t think I &#8220;get&#8221; art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here: http:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/im-sick-of-pretending-i-dont-get-art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;I&#8217;m Sick of Pretending. I Don&#8217;t Get Art.&#8221; from someone with a Ph.D. in art: &#8220;You know what? I&#8217;m sick of pretending. I went to art school, wrote a dissertation called &#8220;The Elevation of Art Through Commerce: An Analysis of Charles Saatchi&#8217;s Approach to the Machinery of Art Production Using Pierre Bourdieu&#8217;s Theories of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Please read. Nod vigorously. Grin. 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