WTF — The Top 50 Artists in Chicago by William Dolan
New City has published their list of top 50 artists in Chicago. I haven’t read it yet, but as with lists of this type, I’ll probably agree with some of them, disagree with others and feel there are omissions. Rather than argue in the comment section over there, I’ll just post my own list here:
Number one…aw, who cares? These types of lists are pointless unless they are somehow quantifiable. In this case by votes, sales, number of works produced…whatever. Otherwise, they are just the author’s favorites. I don’t even carry around lists of favorites such as food, song or color. Well I guess I do have a favorite color — blue. However, I sometimes prefer purple so even that doesn’t mean anything.
Oh what the hell. I’ll go read theirs. I’m dying to know!
Category: WTF 4 comments »
September 20th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
It’s a popularity contest…and that’s ok. It’s good to be popular, isn’t it? Would have been nice to see William Conger on this list.
September 20th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Yes, I agree. There are some others as well. 50 may be too limiting.
September 20th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
How about a list of the bottom 50 artists?
April 12th, 2013 at 8:47 am
Irritating, perhaps even aggravating, yet very valuable as a mirror of many things: one’s own art/contributions, the power structure of art, the popularity of certain ideas, the goodness of others.