There is ample historical precedent for artists declaring works null and void, but not much evidence that they have the power to withdraw a work once it has fully entered the public realm.
The mayor made him the honorary director of the Revoltella Museum, where, however, the real director vetoed a show of Castelli's artists, declaring, "No merchants in the temple!" (The polyglot city had not ceased to be a twisty place).
You have to be skeptical when brilliant artists declare they are leaving the art they love.
Decades before YouTube, Twitter, and Vine, decades before the Internet inaugurated the phenomenon of fleeting, digitally-enabled popularity back in the early 1970s three underground artists declared themselves viral.
On the walls are works that have no market price, since they are simply gifts exchanged between the artists themselves; nor are the names of these artists declared.
"Is it going to blow over?" The president of BLDG Management, Lloyd M. Goldman, whose company owns the site — and who at one point sued the city for stopping demolition of the old tobacco factory there that served as housing for hundreds of artists — declared the new design "utterly sound".
When Markie was ordered to pay damages and remove the offending track from his album, the music industry panicked and insisted that artists declare all their samples in advance, thus making De La Soul-style collages prohibitively expensive and dramatically affecting the sound of hip-hop.
In the evening's most arresting moment, Saulina, having listened to the movie producer speak about contemporary artists, declares, "All I wanted was for that horrid man to say 'Saulina Victoria Webb, I include you in my list of all-American greats.' And I hate myself that much more than I could ever muster up hating him".
Bloom himself writes with the passion and engagement of an artist, declaring that Whitman "overwhelms me, possesses me, as only a few others... consistently flood my entire being.
"Rothko is famed for his brooding, vertically aligned rectangular 'floating' forms, the artist declaring that, 'I think of my pictures as dramas; the shapes in the pictures are the performers..
It's a British hangover," the artist declared last night.
