{"id":2901,"date":"2014-06-15T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T11:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/06\/nothing\/"},"modified":"2014-06-15T07:23:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T11:23:24","slug":"nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/06\/nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked their opinion of the art world, many will complain they don\u2019t understand it, referring to the conceptual nature of many contemporary works.&#0160; Clearly one facet of art should be to provoke thought \u2014 to have the viewer think or apprehend the world differently. However reliance on intellect to \u201cunderstand\u201d art is often responsible for the tortured logic artists rely on to defend their work.<\/p>\n<p>Performance artist Marina Abramovic\u2019s piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/12\/arts\/international\/marina-abramovic-making-art-in-an-empty-space.html?hpw&amp;rref=arts\" target=\"_self\">\u201c512 Hours\u201d <\/a>opens in a London Gallery this week and consists of nothing but an empty room and the artist. Though it has already had the effect the artist may have been seeking \u2013\u2013 controversy and subsequent discussion \u2014 Abramovic\u2019s defense of her idea of a gallery with nothing in it sounds like a clip from an old episode of Seinfeld:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFrom my point of view, it\u2019s difficult for anyone to claim nothing,\u201d Ms. Abramovic said dryly. \u201cI think it\u2019s a misunderstanding anyway. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m doing nothing \u2014 quite the opposite. It\u2019s just that there is nothing except people in the space. But now we are getting letters every day from people who did nothing first. It seems to have become something.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked their opinion of the art world, many will complain they don\u2019t understand it, referring to the conceptual nature of many contemporary works.&#0160; Clearly one facet of art should be to provoke thought \u2014 to have the viewer think or apprehend the world differently. However reliance on intellect to \u201cunderstand\u201d art is often responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}