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One of the problems people have with contemporary art is they assume there's a backstory which will give access to a work's meaning. We all have reactions to things, but we're trained to set aside those reactions in favor of reading the wall label.
But the wall label,  written by professional advocates so to speak, merely tells us  what we're supposed to be thinking, which  is another way of describing the artist's intention. In the last 40 or 50 years, the artist's intention has been privileged over the result.
At a certain point I realized that I don't really want to know about an artist's intention - I'm  just not interested.  It might be interesting later,  but I don't want  my head to be full of ideas about someone's intention when I look at something.
What  matters in art is the absolute specificity of what one actually does, and no amount of rhetoric is going to make it look better.
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