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		<title>Modern Art Museum Displayed Garage Sale That was an Actual Garage Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The motive of charity and sharing seemed absent." ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s art! A better question is who is that Art fellow anyway. Forget Banksy. Even without him, the modern art establishment keeps finding new depths of ridiculousness. And how better to capture that ridiculous than a garage sale.</p>
<p>Unlike the dismembered horses, sugar packet piles and random smears of paint, you expect to see at a modern art museum, this was an actual garage sale at which you could buy things.</p>
<p>What distinguishes <a href="http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1279">an art exhibit that is a garage sale</a> from an actual garage sale? <a href="http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/garagesale/">Because it&#8217;s also a metaphor</a>. Obviously.</p>
<blockquote><p>For her first solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York–based artist Martha Rosler presents her work Meta-Monumental Garage Sale, a large-scale version of the classic American garage sale, in which Museum visitors can browse and buy second-hand goods organized, displayed, and sold by the artist. The installation fills MoMA’s Marron Atrium with strange and everyday objects donated by the artist, MoMA staff, and the general public, creating a lively space for exchange between Rosler and her customers as they haggle over prices. If customers agree, they may be photographed with their purchases. The project also includes a newspaper and an active website.</p>
<p>Martha Rosler is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of her generation, one whose artistic practice, teaching, and writing continue to influence succeeding generations. Rosler makes “art about the commonplace, art that illuminates social life,” examining the everyday by means of photography, performance, video, and installation.</p></blockquote>
<p>And nothing illuminates social life better than inviting bored wealthy idiots over to a parody of a garage sale as a metaphor for America.</p>
<blockquote><p>Rosler’s Garage Sale implicates visitors in face-to-face transactions within a secondary, informal cash economy—exactly like garage sales held outside the museum setting.</p></blockquote>
<p>To the left, buying something at a garage sale, &#8220;implicates&#8221; you. What&#8217;s next? How about a Museum of Modern Art installation that is also a gift shop as a meta-metaphor for gift shops.</p>
<blockquote><p>In New York, people who wish to rid themselves of castoffs simply put them on the street for other, perhaps less fortunate, people to take home and use. There was no thought of that in any garage sale, of course; these sales were apparently about maximizing one&#8217;s, or one&#8217;s family&#8217;s, cash on hand, often put together and run by the woman of the house, and perhaps her children. At the time, the US was suffering the famous oil shock, and the economy was in bad shape. No wonder people were trying to make ends meet by selling their goods! But the motive of charity and sharing seemed absent.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is a year old, but this is why I thought this garbage was worth posting. This is how detached the art world is from real life that it has to stage a mockery of real life.</p>
<blockquote><p> Nor did people seem to think it was dirty or beneath them to be seen sitting on their lawn chairs all day, waiting for customers to drop by and haggle</p></blockquote>
<p>Unlike &#8220;artists&#8221; who don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s beneath them to mock the people who end up paying for their ridiculous antics.</p>
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		<title>No Money for Benghazi Security, but State Dept Spent $1 Mil for Artistic Pile of Rocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2013 18:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Point]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art is dead. As are four Americans in Benghazi]]></description>
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<p>It could have been worse. It could have been an artistic pile of sugar packets. Or a dismembered horse. Or this <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/state-department-spent-4-5-million-for-embassy-art-had-no-money-for-benghazi-security/">$20,000 portrait of Obama</a>. But that would have been cheaper <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/state-department-buys-million-dollar-granite-sculpture-irish-artist_769513.html">than this $1 million pile of rocks</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s Wall of Light Cubed 2. You can tell because it has no light and it doesn&#8217;t really function as much of a wall. It should not be confused with Wall of Light Cubed 1, seen here, now in a private collection.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Scully_Wall_of_Light_Cubed_2007_10_web.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-212627" alt="Scully_Wall_of_Light_Cubed_2007_10_web" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Scully_Wall_of_Light_Cubed_2007_10_web-450x337.jpg" width="450" height="337" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sean-scully.com/en/art/sculpture/TOWER%7C3056%7C1%7CD%7C1">Or Tower</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Tower_2009_web.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-212626" alt="Tower_2009_web" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Tower_2009_web-205x350.jpg" width="205" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>And if you really want to blow your mind, check out the artist&#8217;s <a href="http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/scully/">The Art of the Stripe</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>He then moved to America, where, after five years of struggle, he found his painterly voice in the stripe. Scully has relentlessly pursued the possibilities offered by his exploration of colored stripes, always remaining true to his assertion that &#8220;the stripe is a signifier of modernism.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In a review o<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29scul.html?_r=0">f Scully&#8217;s Wall of Light show, the New York Times</a> quotes him as saying;</p>
<blockquote><p>“I’m trying to turn stone into light,” Mr. Scully has said.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m going to go ahead and say that he has failed. If he wanted to turn stone into light, he needed heavy explosives. He has however managed to turn stone into money.</p>
<blockquote><p>At first glance there seems to be a certain sameness to these totally abstract canvases, with their allover arrangements of bars that superficially vary only in color, size and juxtaposition. But Mr. Scully’s frame of reference is wide, and the canvases convincingly refer to many inspirations: from architectural structures like Stonehenge and paintings by other artist</p></blockquote>
<p>So art is dead. As are four Americans at the Benghazi mission, which never got the security funding it needed, while Hillary Clinton was blowing millions on embassy art.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a more simplistic piece of art from 1989. It does feature some stripes, though it lacks the subtlety and depth of Sean Scully&#8217;s stripes.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Kensington_0015.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-212628" alt="Kensington_0015" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Kensington_0015-262x350.jpg" width="262" height="350" /></a></p>
<p>It dates <a href="http://london.usembassy.gov/grsvnrsq/eisen.html">back to the time when the US Embassy in London</a> helped dedicate this statue instead of dropping a fortune on a pile of striped rocks.</p>
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