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"The writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur once wrote, in reference to artists feeding at the corporate trough, 'They just want you to perfume the sewers. They need artists to bring perfume to the terrible stench of their death.' It's a pity that an artist as talented as Julie Mehretu cannot imagine other possibilities for herself as an artist than to take millions from Goldman Sachs and 'just hope it will feel O.K. over time.'"
-MEOW!
Virgil, Ovid, Donatello, Michalangelo, DaVinci, Shakespeare and Shelley replied, "Huh?"
What? Those artistic commissions weren't spontaneously generated, like meal worms?
We'll see what the Awl staff has to say about this after GS offers them 1 million.
I won't have time to respond, I'll be too busy shopping.
I knew I picked the wrong year to win The Awl's March Madness Tournament Challenge.
But c'mon, keisertroll, Jock Jams!
I would guess that having MILLIONS of dollars feels good almost immediately.
I think the good feelings linger for quite a while, especially if she reinvests that money with Goldman Sachs!
I just hope she also had to solve a really difficult math problem.
That's what assistants are for.
Nobody has noticed the last name: "Le Sueur" ?!
At first glance I thought she was the canned-peas heiress, but yes! Those wacky French.