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60. World Warhol-3-Art Criticism 101

Painter: Yinka Shonibare MBE

The Kara Walker Phenomenon

Time magazine has proclaimed the New York City based artist Kara Walker as one of the 100 important people in America(2007). When the establishment starts telling black people who are important leaders, I digress. Walker says that black people love to be slaves(according to art critic Jerry Saltz). Ms. Walker, where are you coming from? If your idea of a slave performing fellatio on his White Master is a happy slave, you have re-invented slavery.

I am sure all of the FOA's(Friends of Andy) just love your perceptions of black people. Many prominent AfAms don't agree with your depictions. These include Bettye Sarr, Howardena Pendell, and the New York Times critic Holland Cotter.

Just because a few black artists have been accepted in the New York art world, doesn't mean that they are spokespeople for the many talented AfAm's who are not admitted into that small world, because they don't fit that exploited and market driven society.They also don't pander to it.

Old Andy Warhol coined the phrase," Everybody will be famous for 15 minutes." Youtube, Facebook, My space, everyone can be famous today. That is true in the art world today, New York City just now. Rome Fell, The Greeks failed, and even old John Bull fell on his ass, but they did leave us with some art to trip on.

Charlie Finch, an unfashionable, but love/hate child of the New York art scene says it like it is baby moma, in his book, Art Sucks. He writes for artnet.com and is a fresh voice in this idiotic world of art that no one understands, and in America, they just don't give a damn. Where's the beef? Well, beef is expensive, so the beef eaters, artists, galleries, and their collectors pray together, eat and drink amongst themselves. Everyone, at least in New York City, worshiping their God, the almighty dollar. Anyway, where's the Art?

"Skin Fruit" At The New Museum

Well, what can one say about "Skin Fruit," the new exhibition at the The New Museum in New York City? The curator, Jeff Koons, the museum's board, and art collector and Greek billionaire Dakis Jannou appear to have been eating too many animal crackers, or steroid laced truffles. This collection of New York art stars, Koons himself, Kara Walker, and a host of other shock jock artists appear to like masturbating in public.

The ethics of putting on the collection of a board member is shitty to say the least. The good part is that it gives ammunition to those who believe that the New York art world has gone bananas. Most of the work is banal. Shock jocks who have moved to the art museum to shout their songs.

Koons, who is always laughing all the way to the bank, having run out of ideas, assembled this stable of nonsense.This exhibition is not even funny, and the only thing that it says is, love me or leave me. One doesn't need to be intelligent to leave by the front door that they came through, and go get a New York pizza. At least that is good.

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