Appreciate Anti-Gun Demonstrations and Modern Art? There's a Pretty Dumb Exhibit in Chicago For You

townhall.com ^ | 5/13/2018 | Timothy Meads

[rktman]

CNN highlighted a new art exhibit in Chicago that is supposed to highlight how easy it is for citizens to obtain guns such as the AR-15. Imitating the popular "bike share" concept, the anti-gun group Brady Center to Prevent Gun violence has created a piece of art titled the "Chicago Gun Share Program." It features a rack replete with fake AR-15s that could be easily "rented" via credit card as if it were a bicycle.

[rktman]

Well yeah. You can either take one out of the rack or rent one by the hour at the local NRA AR-15 outlet store. They're on practically every corner and some have drive-thru if you're in a hurry. No background checks or age requirements. Cash up front. By the way, /S

[a fool in paradise]

All art foundations have gone political in the last year. Queer family, immigration, feminism, antiwar, etc etc.

The ONLY shows they are doing this summer.

White heterosexual males need not apply.

[rktman]

NON print:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/05/12/appreciate-antigun-demonstrations-and-modern-art-theres-a-pretty-dumb-exhibit-in-chicago-for-you-n2480157

[a fool in paradise]

“the anti-gun group Brady Center to Prevent Gun violence has created a piece of art”

Advertising is not art.

Advertising can only be considered “art” after it’s usefulness as a marketing tool has expired. Until then commerce dominates any other message.

And since the goal is Brady Center fundraising efforts (as stated in the article), it is paid political ad. NOT ART.

#SellOutHacks

[cyclotic]

The city owned Baltimore Art Museum is selling off some of their dead white male art to purchase more trendy and consequential art by modern artists of color and stuff.

[a fool in paradise]

They shouldn't consider buying ANY artworks from present day grifters. The history hasn't been written yet.

They could consider buying the works of deceased Warhol acolyte Jean Michael Basquiat. But their value is largely because of the trendy Hollywood elite collectors.

http://www.artnews.com/2018/03/06/110-5-m-basquiat-masterpiece-will-travel-seattle-latest-stop-tour-painfully-exemplifying-problems-present-moment/

Oh yeah, the $11 million the expect to get from the combined sale of those works by dead white males won't even cover the down payment or buyer's premium on a Baquiat "masterpiece".

Apparently billionaires are supposed to buy these things and then GIVE them to the museums (rather than build their own)...

----- (from the above article)

After it completes a six-week stint at the Brooklyn Museum this Sunday, the untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat skull painting that sold to Japanese collector Yusaku Maezawa for $110.5 million last May at Sotheby’s will head to the Seattle Art Museum, where it will be on view for nearly five months, from March 21 through August 13....

...It is hard to begrudge a museum agreeing to show what is undeniably a masterpiece—the painting is drawing crowds, and hopefully minting more than a few new Basquiat fans—and one never wants to sound churlish, but it has to be said that such temporary shows of the wealthy’s latest purchases feel depressingly of the moment, at once a sign of today’s vicious income inequality and the precarious state of many publicly funded institutions.

Neither the Brooklyn Museum nor the Seattle Art Museum owns a Basquiat painting, which are now so expensive that they are beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest institutions—unless a generous benefactor donates one. Instead, the museum-going public is now being treated to shows of expensively purchased artworks that can’t help but read as celebrations of big spending. As the New York Times reported in 2014, art museums in Oregon have even developed a cottage industry by way of showing works hot off the auction block so that their new owners can avoid paying certain taxes....

----- Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #MarxistRedistribution #ClassEnvy

[Iron Munro]

[a fool in paradise]

He sold that painting for $4,000 in 1982. Patrons don’t support the artists directly. They support the galleries and auction houses and framers and institutions.

People who scoff at paying $250 for a handmade photo print will think nothing of paying $300 for the professional matting and framing.

[Iron Munro]

Maybe all Chicago needs are some more gun-control laws.

After all - remember the history of how well the alcohol control laws (Prohibition) worked in Chicago back in the 1920's?

[Disambiguator]

110 mil for what looks like bad graffiti in an alleyway.

[smokingfrog]

I was looking for that, but got lost and ended up at the RPG rental rack. A little more expensive, but well worth it.

[a fool in paradise]

Basquiat was a graffiti artist (SAMO) same as Fab 5 Freddy.

[Big Red Badger]

Two XLNT points!