Mehretu and Goldman Sachs: "They need artists to bring perfume to the terrible stench of their...

Mehretu and Goldman Sachs: “They need artists to bring perfume to the terrible stench of their death”

“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!