• The Economist Shuffle

    The Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York advertises an exhibition until December 1st called "The Economist Shuffle", consisting of paintings by Yishai Jusidman based on photographs from The Economist newspaper.

    My colleagues in red are sniggering at the bit of the blurb where the gallery says:

    [I]nstead of foregrounding a politicized agenda, Jusidman aims to
    subjugate politically minded art to his own aesthetic terms. The pieces
    in The Economist Shuffle are layered concoctions of mediation and
    information calculated to activate “an abrasive merging of otherwise
    incompatible predispositions in the viewer”. The artist refers, of
    course, to the age-old artistic dichotomy of
    purposiveness/aestheticism.

    Of course!

    Then again, "concotions of mediation and information calculated to activate an abrasive merging of otherwise incompatible predispositions in the viewer" might actually be quite a good description of the things we write in The Economist, at least on a good day. I doubt it's ever going to displace that bit about intelligence and ignorance from out contents page, but there's the germ of something there.

    Inspiring works of art has to be good for the brand. More when I've been to see the show.


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