our blog post about jerry saltz’ blog post

“New­ness is as old as time. The mod­ernists were just a lot cock­i­er about say­ing so.”

“We go to MoMA be­cause mod­ernism is cool, still – a se­quence of rev­o­lu­tion­ary ges­tures, shocks, and suc­ces­sion sto­ries that, we think, tell us some­thing about rad­i­cal­ism and experimentation.”

“Peo­ple still quote Duchamp say­ing, ‘A paint­ing that doesn’t shock isn’t worth paint­ing.’ Why are peo­ple still set on shock­ing their nanas? Mod­ernism.”

“Mea­sur­ing things that way does a dis­ser­vice to art and to artists – as Willem de Koon­ing said, ‘It is dis­as­trous to name our­selves.’ MoMA will be hang­ing works from dif­fer­ent eras, and dif­fer­ent places, next to one an­oth­er, open­ing up what had be­gun to seem like an air­less, self-ref­er­en­tial canon into some­thing much more dy­nam­ic. The mu­se­um is even dis­card­ing its 89-year aver­sion to show­ing dif­fer­ent medi­ums together.”
—Jer­ry Saltz, What the Hell Was Modernism?
 

Oh good. The New York Mu­se­um of Mod­ern Art has fi­nal­ly caught up to us. They’re go­ing to be do­ing wat we’ve been do­ing on our tum­blr blog since 2012.
 

“Purists Face Regret.”
—From The First Flom­mus Man­i­festo and our game trail­er
 

Like, make the comparisons!
Com­par­isons and analo­gies are güd!
It’s how we learn, how we relate.

And Read Jerry’s ar­ti­cle here.

It’s long, but you know, you have to get used to read­ing long things in or­der to beef up an at­ro­phied at­ten­tion span.

How every­thing in­ter­con­nects and TO­DAY re­lates is re­al­ly the im­por­tant part. 

Mod­ern art his­to­ry is mor than facts and fig­ures. And is mor rel­e­vant than ever.

Will have mor on this to­mor­row. And always.
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Jerry’s blog post first ap­peared in the Sep­tem­ber 30, 2019, is­sue of New York Magazine.

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