Uncritical support for conceptual artists working to separate the rich from their money
Some of it is. Most of it is the rich looking for social signifiers, or the rich trying to turn a profit when they're hard up. Very little of it is making the artists money, so you have to celebrate the hustle-grift when you can.
incestuous money laundering.
the artists are usually some rich guys lame ass kid who doesnt make anything of actual conceptual or visual value.
gave $18k to a friend to shill buy his "art" to generate a news headline
Donate it to a museum valued at 100k. Instant tax write off.
Everyone wins.
Yeah but how are they going to pack it up and ship it to a museum?
I feel like 9 times out of 10 when you read a weird art headline like this something is being taken out of context.
Like maybe by “invisible sculpture” they mean this guy made some weird glass thing that can only be seen from certain angles which would actually be kinda cool. Not $18k cool but kinda cool, high art is mostly money laundering though.
Then that's fraud. You can't create a vacuum in the atmosphere without special equipment.
No, you can sell the idea of an art piece, and it’ll exists mostly as a set of instructions on what to do to display it
One could argue Ono invented the first NFTs and Lennon was her YokoNet.
I will forever rue the day she met John. She broke up the Beatles and didn't even care.
Look at this wonderful piece of art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68 This is what happens when no one tells you are bad at something.
Here's a great breakdown by Bill Burr on John Lennon and Chuck Berry singing a song on television...and then Yoko happens. The look on Chuck's face is priceless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4K07Kz7M8Q
I watched an interview with the surviving Beatles quite some years after and after denying it for a long time, they finally came out and said, "Yeah, pretty much, she broke up the Beatles." Rifts can be healed, new artistic directions taken, but without her they could have come out with several more albums, even separated by years. Kind of like the Beach Boys are still together, sort of. Or Chicago.
Oh come on Yoko Ono is wildly unpopular except in her little insular artist circles. Misogyny is hatred of women, this is just a well-deserved dislike of a someone who thinks her howling is something anyone wants to hear.
Oh, you can read minds? That's amazing! Say, can you do it again? Can you tell me what I had for breakfast?
Don't tell other people what they think unless you can read minds.
Just cause you don't know anything about the modern art world doesnt mean Yoko Ono is in any way not respected for her art, sure Beatles fans hate her(mainly cause misogyny, partially for the treatment of Johns first kid) but she's in no way some kind of outsider or ostracised. This is still just reactionary "waaah I think this art bad that means the artist is bad at life and its unfair she is famous and im not" shit.
Weigh the number of people in the world who respect Yoko Ono vs. the number of people who think she's trash. Which one comes out the winner?
The art world is just a big money laundering scheme.
Gonna weigh the people in the world who care about your art opinions vs those who want you to take a steaming dump in your underwear are you ready to face the results coward?
You neither addressed nor refuted the premise. What you're doing is called "whataboutism".
Full video of that Lennon/Berry performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGuxGGOIV0
It's no good without Bill Burr's commentary. Although you will notice that on the second song, the sound man cut her microphone :D :D :D :D :D :D
Watch: https://youtu.be/ZbGuxGGOIV0?t=332 That sound man is a hero
lol this is just borderline reactionary art opinions who tf upvoted this shit, also Yoko Ono didn't break up shit.
Possibly, it’s not a new idea by any stretch, some are on it’s face dumber than others.
Sometimes.
It actually is pretty funny how expectations are played with
A great concept but c'mon...
$18,000
Wake me up when somebody does this for the high six figures.
So according to this rich guy I'm an acquaintance of, once you get rich, you run out of things to buy pretty quickly. You get the big house, the lake house, the yacht, the seadoo, the Harley, the vacations to wonderful places...and then what? You bought everything you ever wanted. The only thing left is to buy art.
You can just go to Santa Fe and buy from there, or you can become an "art patron" and have your ass kissed at cocktail parties. Depends on if you're the kind of rich person who just cares about making money or cares that people know that you have money.
*This member of the bourgeoisie finds this one trick to sell shit to fellow members of the bourgeoisie
We're like the servants in "the emperors new clothes" but we pretend not to see the emperor. And the emperor is schniff capitalist ideology :zizek-ok:
i hate to be the boomer laughing at how bad modern art is, but bro cmon
