Friday, October 28, 2011

Art or Scam?

Art Contrarian on the finalists for the Turner Prize. [Be sure to click to see them.] An excerpt:

My problem is that the term "art" has been watered down (Duchamp's legacy) to the point where anything can be called "art." But if anything runs the risk of being "art," then art is nothing special and the term becomes meaningless.

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