Mar 25
I just came across this article and it speaks so clearly to my general opinion of contemporary art that I feel compelled to share it with all of you.
I will let you read the article yourself – it is very short – but here is a quick excerpt. I have not yet taken the time to investigate the weird site issues caused by the combination of blockquotes and IE, so I will offset the passage only with quotes. Forgive the simplicity.
“In this year’s summer show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, ‘Exhibit 1201′ is a large rectangular tablet of slate with a tiny barbell-shaped bit of boxwood on top. Its creator, David Hensel, must be pleased to have been selected from among some 9,000 applicants for the world’s largest open-submission exhibit of contemporary art. Nevertheless, he was bemused to discover that in transit his sculpture had gotten separated from its base. Judging the two components as different submissions, the Royal Academy had rejected his artwork proper–a finely wrought laughing head in jesmonite–and selected the plinth.”