Monday, July 4, 2011

Liberals acknowledge that they've elevated doing nothing to an art form

Oscar Wilde said that “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life”. Bullcookies.

In the recent past, life has presented us with an imaginary economic stimulus, a vaporware healthcare reform program and an intellectual genius president whose mental prowess exists solely in the minds of his media acolytes. Only now has art produced a nothingburger on the same scale.

Fox News has the non-story:

[Actor] James Franco is now an artist. But you can’t see his work.

His work is completely invisible.

Along with Brainard and Delia Carey, the art duo known as Praxis, Franco has helped the Museum Of Non-Visible Art, MONA open its doors.

But its pretty empty inside.

Described as “an extravaganza of imagination,” the different pieces of invisible art are on sale from $20 to $10,000. Buyers receive a plaque in the mail describing the art, but no physical work itself.

“You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork” the website stresses.

Now that the art world, which up until recently simply arranged garbage within a frame, placed price tags on it and called themselves “genius” can’t even be bothered to do that much anymore, we’d say the world’s transformation into one giant Potemkin village is now nearly complete.

To be intellectually and morally bankrupt, produce nothing and expect rewards and praise for it – we’re all Barack Obama now.

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