Curator at Large: Exhibitions to See in September
Phin Jennings, Rise Art
September 2021
“Juicy” has to be one of my least favourite International Art English adjectives. People describe publications, auction prices or artists’ CVs as juicy. They also describe paintings as juicy. In the documentary The Price of Everything, collector Stefan Edlis explains that the Andy Warhol paintings that achieve the best prices are the “juicy” ones. To me, the word is evocative of something hyper-modern and strangely sexual. I could be wrong, and there are certainly notable exceptions (Jeff Koons comes to mind), but I can’t imagine any artist wanting their work to be called juicy. It makes me squirm. […]