Time to take the New out of his museum and dust it off a little.

How old is Richard? No excuse for anyone under the age of 40 making this statement (actually, there's no excuse period).

He probably thinks that Jazz is the music of rebels too.

Cool, daddio!

We actually had an administrator here - who is in charge of web content - explaining to us that she'd like to have a sort of electronic newsletter. When we said, "Oh, you mean a blog?" she was completely baffled. "What's a blog?"

She's about 32.

Oh, he's just pissed because everyone's been calling him out on his apalling ethics in mounting the Koons show. He can't bear the idea of all of us peons having a voice in the art world without belonging to his little club.

Well, turnabout is fair play. I just found out about the New Museum today. In this blog post.

sounds like a record industry exec. some old fart with alot of institutional power. can we get to the end of cultural empires already

This guy must not even pay attention to his own museum's exhibitions. I saw the Younger Than Jesus exhibition last year and there was a room with, among other media, computers displaying blogs. One of the stars of the show, Ryan Trecartin, is about as internet-immersed as any artist working today.

Remember kids, we live in one of the more computer savvy regions of the country. It really does make a big cultural difference.

@Husky: our cultural tendency to be tech-savvy has little to do with blogging though, and I'm fairly confident quite a lot of the country caught up to us on that long ago.

What an insult to add to injury. He's just made himself and the culture of the Institution more evidently elitist than before, keenly pointing out the disparity between the way the academic/commercial art world thinks/talks about art and the way the rest of us do.

Those who do write on credible thoughtful blogs are aware that this is a self-correcting system of interlinked conversations where people can and will let you know you are wrong. And most of us have cross referenced and cross-posted/conversed with blogs in other cities; so the prairie dog notion is ridiculous.

People like Flood need to realise/come to terms with/admit the tone of criticism is changing, and so are people's attitudes towards dusty institutional attitudes. If we want art to survive, that world is going to have to bend.

my lack of coffee and bad writing as a result is "ghetto"....

Question to Sharon: Do you think you would spend the same amount of time blogging/reading blogs, if you lived in NYC and could get face-time with any art world elite you wanted, whenever you wanted? Also, do you regularly read more than a dozen blogs? That is a small number compared to what's out there. If you are choosing which blogs you consider to be the best, then maybe the "ghetto" comment holds true. I am not sure how much blogs are actually changing the discourse. We are having the same conversations we always do in galleries, museums, at openings, and in studios.

@Husky: When I lived in New York (roughly six years, five years ago), yes I did - though at the time there were admittedly fewer! And as I mentioned in another conversation yesterday, 90% of anything is crap so I don't really understand the point of the statement.

Blogs are changing the conversation by virtue of being there and being available to anyone and everyone, regardless of location (ie Seattle/NY, galleries/living room), background or level of education. I believe this to be expressly important and valuable!

yow. alas, this says more about Richard Flood than it does about the validity of art blogs.