I was reading Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. He was critiquing Damien Hirst's 'Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011'. They're being exhibited all over the world. Hirst is part of "a cohort [of] Young British Artists. When not milking death, Y.B.A. art savored sex and squalor, ideally in combination." They were behind the show at The Brooklyn Museum in 1999 that Mayor Giuliani "made headlines by denouncing Chris Ofile's painting of the Virgin Mary festooned with lumps of elephant dung." Yeah, Peter doesn't like them. He says: "The result is art in the way some exotic financial dealings are legal: by a whisker."
So I went to Chelsea to see for myself. Found one but couldn't shoot it. It looked like this:
There a dozen of them around the world.
I prefer these by Will Kurtz, at the Mike Weiss Gallery. It's called 'Extra Fucking Ordinary", unfortunate title, for fine work. They are life size figural sculptures constructed of collaged torn sheets of newspaper, wood, wire, screws, tape and everyday objects.
He takes photos with his I-Phone then recreates them.
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Thank you, Jim! We love reading your comments and seeing your photo's and so appreciate your keeping us up to date with the art scene up there.
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