Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.