Comments on The Continuation of Isaac Layman's World Domination Tour

I gaped half-drunk at this stuff at the opening. Jen, you make the world make sense.

Whereas if I took a picture of a coffee mug or a sock on the floor, it'd just be a shitty picture. Modern art is ridiculous.

How does your indifference and incompetence make something else ridiculous? I'm not saying modern art isn't ridiculous; that's another discussion. But what do your admittedly shitty pictures have to do with it? "I spilled some coffee on my shirt today, therefore music is pointless."

Art like this is what gives modern art a bad name. These pictures are simplistic, childish (the T-shirt), and boring, whereas Oldenberg's sculptures (another modern artist who's appeared in the Slog lately) are at least humorous and creative.

Fnarf, I agree that the CHZA's reasoning is faulty. But I think that what he/she is (inelegantly) saying is that not much thought went into this art. The picture on the artist's page of an extension cord: um, so what? Can Jen explain why that is art?

I don't agree. I think the coat hanger is austere and beautiful. But then, I'm a sucker for anything where the background's been leveled to white. The T-shirt's OK. Bear in mind I'm only seeing them on a screen. But the clarity of objects is nothing to sneer at.

WINDOW is actually the artist pointing AT a photograph of a window, not simply OUT a window... More than thrice removed from the truth? I should also encourage all naysayers to actually go see the work. Think. Look. Experience the work. Ask questions. If 'art' doesn't happen after that, then feel free to dismiss.

Thanks for clarifying about Window!