Sunday, September 28, 2008

Pun Art

The Museum of Arts and Design exhibits works such as Jean Shin's 'Sound Wave.' It sounds like this is art that was just made for me.

The New York Times doesn't seem as excited as I am:


"'Second Lives' confirms how thoroughly blurred the lines dividing art, craft and design have become over the past few decades. Unfortunately, its lens is a strategy that has reached epidemic proportions in the larger art world: the use of many small recognizable things to make one big recognizable thing. The idea germinated in Meret Oppenheim’s beloved and far too influential fur-lined teacup, and has trickled down through generations of found-object assemblages and sculptures by artists like Arman, Tony Cragg, Donald Lipski and Tom Sachs."

I love recycling objects in art. I don't care if it's overdone. I'd rather check this out than go to MoMA and see 'Twin' again. Plus, the title of 'Sound Wave' is a pun. Now that's my kind of art.

1 comments:

Morgan said...

But who's really all that surprised? This is the New York Times we're talking about. More than being the paper of record, they're the establishing force for cultural elitism. It means they're full of haters.