Mat Gleason has entered the Post-Punk Banquet:
Applaud or flee the room

Do you dare send your jazzy, sexy press release to Mat Gleason?

Now back in the days when we were firing off press releases and looking to gather as many international press clippings that we could, Mat Gleason and the Coagula Art Journal were NOT on our mailing list.

Why you may ask? For those who know his work in the 90s, you clearly know why. But for those out there who don’t, the reason is this: if there was one person to rip into our strategically placed phrasing to generate clippings, it was certainly Mat Gleason.

The magazine’s stance is clear even today: "Coagula is clarity amidst the ambiguity of contemporary art and the neutered, star-struck art world; we don’t f*** around here."

So without further introduction, here’s a sample of Mat’s writing. We don’t agree with everything he says, but we’ve never seen anyone say it better than this...>

This excerpt has been reprinted with Mat Gleason’s approval. It comes from the classic text Most art sucks: Five years of Coagula (1998), published by Smart Art Press. This should be on every fine art student’s reading list—even if Mat ever rips into ADP in future and we publicly change our minds.

This book is a treasure chest of innovative text approaches for brainstorming. Students can make their own assessments, of course!

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