Tag Archives: idiots
NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT
An artist who painted a picture of Donald Trump nude, with a very small penis, possibly even a case of bona fide medically diagnosable micropenis, has been threatened with legal action via an "anonymous filing of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice" if she sells it to anyone.
U OK, Don?
It's currently being exhibited in London, to the general edification and amusement of all. In the USA, meanwhile, the artist received thousands of death threats and galleries chickened out of hanging it because they feared violence from Trump's thuggish, quasi-fascist supporters. QED.
Anyway, let's all spite those imbeciles and Streisand Effect the shit out of the deranged, shit-for-brains, racist, rabble-rousing, hypocritical, incoherent, child-handed, small-dicked, candyfloss-haired, ignoramus psychopath megalomaniac robber-capitalist they idolise by looking at Illma Gore's painting of Donald Trump and posting about it everywhere.
Make America Great Again by Illma Gore, 2016.
Artist threatened with lawsuits if she sells nude Donald Trump painting
Tags: 21st century, censorship, Donald Trump, fascists, götterdämmerung, idiots, legal threats, London, painters, painting, portraits, satire, Streisand Effect, USA
Categories Art, Artists, Götterdämmerung, Painting
REAL ART WORLD MORE SATIRICAL THAN SATIRE AGAIN
This is what you get when rolling around on the floor, self-harming and generally making a tit of yourself become normalised as art practices: a woman (really, but non-fatally) stabbed by another woman in the neck and arms with a craft knife during an altercation at Art Basel Miami Beach and taken out on a stretcher while police cordoned off the crime scene was described by onlookers as "a performance art presentation." Two of these patrons were "sipping champagne" and gawking at the bloody floor from behind police tape even as they expressed their horror that it was a real stabbing. Still think covering yourself in body fluids, paint, food (etc.) is cutting edge or exploring new territory? The public are now so blasé about this "transgressive" type of art that they assume crimes, violent incidents and bloody accidents are art interventions, so the answer is a resounding NO.
Obviously I hope the unfortunate victim gets well soon, but this whole scenario is like a scene from a John Waters film. An artist opined that he thought it was more likely that "a piece of art fell on her" because nobody gets stabbed at Art Basel– putting me in mind of the woman in Airplane! who idly muses that "Jim never vomits at home…" as the aircraft is crashing. Not to mention the Road Runner cartoon imagery of a patron at an art fair being splattered underneath a heavy sculpture, as if that's a likely event. The fact that the stabbing was done with an X-Acto knife vaguely suggests that the assailant was either an artist or worked for an art gallery, for a little Valerie Solanas spice. And of course the incident takes place in the comprehensively daft and beyond satire 1-percenter bubble of Art Banal Miami Vice itself, where the important art works on show include a female mannequin set up to crush walnuts between its thighs and a man punching canvases with boxing gloves full of paint.
[Sigh]
Tags: Art Basel, art fairs, art world, art world elite, baffling, commercial galleries, contemporary art, crime, idiots, Miami Beach, performance art, USA, violence
Categories Art Business, Art Fair, Artists, Götterdämmerung, Performance
PSY-CHOTIC BREAK
… is one of the possible reasons why all the people appear to have lost control over basic motor skills as well as their damn minds in the aforementioned Anish Kapoor and Friends [sic] video, making the most of the inexplicable craze for Gangnam Style a few years ago. Like your grandad realising several years after the fact what twerking is or what whippits are, so he keeps saying "twerking" or "whippits" all the time and nudging you because he'd like you to admit he's totally with it and hasn't lost his touch. Anyway, dance along like a toddler to some horrifying GIFs from Anish Kapoor and his imaginary friends.
Firstly some box-fresh gallerinas, straight from the Gallery Maid factory's affordable basic range. Jackie O bug shades? Yes. Short dress over black tights? Yes. Straight, shoulder length hair? Yes. Moves like granny? No, granny's actually a better dancer. I never heard of Gladstone Gallery before. Understand? I NEVER HEARD OF YOU. And I've only heard of about six of the artists they represent. Well done, ladies. Keep up the little-to-no work.
"Grandad? When I grow up, I want to put my glasses on top of my head and glower at gallery visitors over a very high white counter."
Does anybody know who this little herbert is, with his pompadour, his air tie and his Matalan suit? Looks like a mini-me of noted feminist Charles Saatchi.
Here's a contribution from that well-known art world luminary, Tumblr. One beer (seen here, bottom left) and Mr Tumblr is straight onto the dance floor, delivering black eyes, an elbow in the breasts, or knocked out teeth to anyone within striking distance. One beer and he's even straight onto the dance floor when there's no dance floor or music. Thanks to your bedroom dance sessions, young master Tumblr, Ai Wei Wei is free! But you'd better scrub the wall before mum comes up to tell you to turn the music off, or she'll be furious.
To be fair, this clip does sum up Tumblr pretty well.
Stripper dance moves for free speech, because nothing says "important campaign to raise awareness of state oppression and censorship" better than dry humping a pensioner.
I warn you now, henceforth I'm going to use this GIF every time I mention Anish Kapoor. Go home, sunshine. You're drunk.
Tags: Anish Kapoor, art world, art world elite, baffling, galleries, Gangnam Style, götterdämmerung, GIFs, idiots
Categories Artists, Götterdämmerung
RACHMAN STYLE*
Ehhhhhh… nasty landlord.
(* Link for those too young and/or too not from London to get this reference.)
South Korean pop star PSY, of Gangnam Style infamy, is not only trying to force an artist-led organisation out of a building he owns in the gentrifying Hannamdong neighbourhood of Seoul (so he can renovate it, presumably for higher rents) but has also launched defamation lawsuits against four of the artists for publicising his actions and criticising him. Don't like going viral quite so much when it doesn't flatter you, Mr Park?
Of course this is just one of many instances of the same crap that is happening in London and in other major cities in the developed world; as the rich get richer and the poor get punished, artists, the low paid and even reasonably well-salaried key workers like nurses and teachers are being exiled from the cities where they're particularly needed and supposedly wanted while urban cores become little more than desolate stacks of steel and glass investment boxes for the Haves.
All this came to my attention via a story at Hyperallergic about an unspeakably ghastly KRW 418 million (£236,800 or $361,000) Gangnam Style sculpture planned for the eponymous district of Seoul. Somebody should tell these property developers that viral YouTube hits are often really hard to explain even at the time, let alone in a few years when everyone will be saying "Si who? Horse riding hands? What?"
Talking of PSY and WTF-ness, it is perhaps telling that Amnesty International appear to have deleted the page on their site that formerly pertained to the Gangnam for Freedom video made in 2012 by Anish Kapoor and Friends [sic… obviously he doesn't have any friends]. You can watch it if you like. I can't watch it again. I just can't. It's so embarrassing it makes my whole face invert and my testicles retract all the way up into my lungs. The Chinese government was obviously rocked by Kapoor and overpaid staff members from irrelevant 1% bauble galleries like the Serpentine and MoMA dancing like toddlers to a novelty record about chatting up an attractive woman* and that's why they immediately let Ai Wei Wei and other people who are actually serious dissidents out of… oh, wait. No they didn't. THEY DIDN'T GIVE A SHIT AND JUST KEPT ON OPPRESSING ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, ACTIVISTS AND AUTHORS WITH COMPLETE IMPUNITY.
And now the video is overlaid with the irony that PSY accuses artists who criticise him of libel and takes them to court.
(I know, by the way, that Kapoor and Friends were responding to a video by Ai Wei Wei which also (mis)used Gangnam Style… his video was also lame, embarrassing and demonstrated a high schooler's level of political and artistic sophistication.)
UPDATE, December 2015:
Über-LOL at the video– which had been there since 2012, mostly unseen and always unloved– mysteriously disappearing within a few weeks of me blogging about it. I think people still don't believe me when I say that the art world top table grownups read this blog, but they are totally hate-reading it all the time. Although ultimately I think it's better if nobody else ever has to watch the video because it's so sphincter-puckeringly ghastly, I also can't help feeling it's a shame the video is gone now. Thanks for reading, though, Big A! Keep on dancing like you forgot what arms are, you dotty old thing.
(More GIFs from the video here.)
(* English translation of the Gangnam Style lyrics. Why bother using an instrumental version– which exists, because I checked– to avoid conflicting messages, when lyrics like these go so perfectly with a protest about freedom of speech? The answer is that Anish Kapoor and Friends are intellectual pygmies and hacks, probably.
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now lets go until the end
Uncle is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Uncle is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady, Uncle is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh
A girl who looks quiet but plays when she plays
A girl who puts her hair down when the right time comes
A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it all
A sensible girl like that
I'm a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy.)
Tags: Anish Kapoor, artist-led, dad dancing, galleries, Gangnam Style, götterdämmerung, gentrification, idiots, landlords, money, PSY, public art, Seoul, South Korea
Categories Art Business, Artists, Götterdämmerung, Sculpture