pretentious art
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There is some interesting and good stuff out there.... and more than anyone, I love a good mindfuck art piece....
Duchamp was a prankster long before anyone alive now...
There is a whole lot of crap, not quite there, "contractually obligated art",..... I remember comments about Mary Boone getting her artists addicted to an "expensive lifestyle so they would produce art for the market" .... and it showed for years....
I wish there were some better critics, I have serious beefs with Robert Hughes, and I don't think he really got Worhol.... but Hughes did at least try to do things most current critics ignore....
Curators and Collectors are in a strange cahoots.... such crap gets foisted upon us ....
but when you least expect it, something amazing happens.. like seeing a "you are beautiful" sticker on a thrift store trash can in Chicago, placed at just the right angle, in front of a red painted wall, with the scratched up lid of the trash can bent just a bit.... that was great...
- "such crap gets foisted upon us", then segues into "you are beautiful"..snarl