Saturday, November 5, 2011

Andy Rooney on art: "A writer ought to be able to write simple sentences before he tries to be a poet."

An old man isn't a fan of modern art! Because it's a stereotype! Because he's old! And modern art is weird! So he hates it! Get it? Get it??

Except, really, he's right. At least to me.


Once I visited Boston's ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), and there was a wooden pallet on the ground--the kind you see in the back rooms of warehouses and grocery stores. The pallet had mirrors inside it. I was told that it represented a look inside the commerce of America--a reflection of the empty production of our society--the misguided economic policies of capitalism--the starvation of the consumer who could only look at themselves after they stripped everything that shipped on that pallet.

But all I saw was a gussied-up pallet.

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