We went all over New York City today, but I will get right to the art review.
The best thing I can say about Greater New York is that it was like visiting Walter Robinson’s Artnet website in person. I just feel so bad for Walter now that I have seen in person what he has succumbed to upholding.
The sprawling P.S. 1 exhibition space had Greater New York, a show of what appeared to be hundreds of artists, all young and gallery-represented artists. This show was a showcase of what is going on – and because it is the young hip artists, supposedly reveals the future of art, the cutting edge if you will allow me to use the most overused term on the fucking planet.
Better that this show be thought of as cutting edge and not seen than to be visited and experienced – as it is the lamest conglomeration of inconsequentiality that could be assembled from the art world. To call it dreck would be to diminish the enchantment that slime and scum often have when glistening under just the proper sunlight.
There was a total of one good painting and a total of two clever ideas rendered useless as artworks. To name the artists would be to insult them, as association with this show is like sentencing someone to be forever remembered as a crony of the most classless unlikable hipster that ever roared into town on the night there was a great party out at the beach.
It is like the artworld wants to so cut itself off from life and the world that its youngest adherents are its most dogged fundamentalists in disregarding – perhaps even dismembering – pleasure and experiential joy. Just as Islam, the religion of peace, has its adherents who kill the infidel, the artworld too revels in its young set of true believers who have sacrificed their names and careers to the greater good of killing off hope that art may impact life and the world at large.
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