Gone are the days when a single statement piece of art above furniture was the norm.
At a time when Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar have produced messy, ambitious albums full of statements on art and accountability, Drake's goals seem modest and quaint.
DIA Beacon, however, is as good a statement of the art DIA believes in as you are likely to find anywhere.
Most of them are the statement of passionate art collectors who want to find a stable home for and exhibit their own collection; they also want to leave a cultural legacy beyond their business enterprises.
Step into the Statements section of Art Basel for a concentrated injection of emerging talent -- the sector features solo projects by young, emerging artists, presented by 14 galleries; of these, nine were new to Art Basel.
But perhaps the most powerful statement of the arts center's -- and Newark's -- success can be glimpsed on warm summer nights, when thousands of people throng its outdoor plaza for a weekly music series that has become Newark's town social.
It's a world Walsh is particularly scathing about: "The most honest statement of what the art community believes, particularly the academic art community, is, 'We've never thought about it and God willing, inshallah, we never will.
In every city there are thousands of artists transforming Europe's oldest buildings, and walls into colorful, expressive and transformative statements of modern art.
Other critics (Kania 2005, Stecker 2005) believe Davies provides insufficient grounds for the adoption of a highly revisionary ontological doctrine that gives the lie to countless ordinary statements about works of art, such as "the Mona Lisa can be seen at Le Louvre".
Any author will agree with the statement that a work of art is never completed, only abandoned.
