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- KAWS Celbre
As a kid I watched Charles Kuralt deliver a blistering Sunday Morning rant against graffiti, and it had a profound effect on me. So I was dismayed to see yet another celebration of KAWS on my favorite show. When I see profiles of hip-hop artists who talk of their history of drug dealing and gang banging, usually it is presented with a sense of regret at having to do what was needed to survive. But there was nary a trace of remorse from KAWS nor a hint of rebuke from Ms. Altschul as he merrily defaced public and private property during what appears to be fairly recent times.
There wasn't even the obligatory claim to be making art in furtherance of a greater good--a commentary against racism or war or poverty. No, KAWS just gets to put up his stuff wherever he likes, in service only to his own fame and fortune.
I make my living in marketing and have created my share of bus shelter ads, and I dare say I've worked at least as hard as KAWS for a fraction of the financial rewards. And it really gets my goat to see him deface a bus shelter's fashion magazine ad and then make bundles from Macy's, a store that sells the products this very magazine helps them sell. Are there no grown-ups left minding the store? That question is for you, too, CBS.
We miss you, Charles. - Reply to this comment
- I want to know why charges are not being brought up against this person & why is he not being arrested!! is there a statute of limitations that we are not aware of? If i did the same thing & i got caught, i would go to jail & pay thousands of dollars in restitution, but he gets praise & featured on a national new program? We the people come up with these laws & then we dont follow the laws that we come up with. shouldnt everyone obey the same laws & who gets to determine who gets punished for broken laws & who doesnt? :: To his family, he's known as Brian Donnelly. He grew up in the shadow of Manhattan, across the river in Jersey City, where his faded tags can still be seen on the sides of buildings.
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- I am outraged!! Do you think a person should go to prison for murder no matter how long the crime took place? what about rape, or bank robbery? What about armed robbery, no matter how long ago it took place? i was watching this new program about this graffiti artist that spray painted all over, causing thousands & thousands of damage and he is now known & without doubt, we now know who he is & every graffiti he has done, should he go to jail? should he pay? if i were to do graffiti & get caught, i would go to jail, without a doubt!! but instead we honored him & praised him! for an example: 2nd Ann Arbor teen arraigned on felony graffiti charge.
Posted on Tue, May 29, 2012 : 2:45 p how is this any different than what they talked about on the news show? isnt a crime, a crime, a crime?
Sincerely, G.J - Reply to this comment
- The whole thing about the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is about FUN and not really a marketing ploy...
Grow up and look at these pieces of art through a child's eyes. We have bigger problems to deal with. - Reply to this comment
- And nohater uses "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" to "justify" KAWS' garbage. But, if what KAWS tosses off was anything even close to, in someone's point of view, "beauty", there would have been versions of the same imagery years ago and years before that and years before that! It's nothing but a swindle!
It should be understood, something that is valid and true, honorable and well meaning has a quality that dare not be played around with! It is something that truly ennobles the world! It is not something to be turned into a craven tool of mendacity, collusion and greed. Those who engage in the "modern art" scam deliberately chrun out trash! There is not the same penalty from God for calling garbage gold as there is calling true worth and value trash. The only things they dare use for the petty game pieces in the "modern art" swindle are geuninely craven items. Everything turned out by "modern art" is trash because they know how dangerous it would be to turn something truly worthy into fodder for their fraud machine. - Reply to this comment
- Where is your credit to the background music used in the video?
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- Great story...hopefully encouraging to any aspiring Artists out there.
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- Basically, a demonstration of the literal fraud that "modern art" constitutes. Gimmicky, vacuous, arrested development piles. It's the same story everywhere, a loutish, money grubbing hack sells themselves out as bed candy to "insiders" with a lot of money and influence, then het a career fabricated foe them. "Moden art" is nothing but an eleaborate swindle, built of fundamentals that accumulated around legitimate art years ago, critical acclaim, wealthy patrons, gallery shows, escalating prices. Today, it takes the form of a crud who manages to work their way into the beds of the powerful being granted "credential" by them. "Critics" write obliging paeans to the individual's material, using calculatedly impenetrable phaseology like, "surpassing the redundancy of cumulative elaboration, it embraces the fundamental paradigmatic correlation of rhetoric and vicissitude, telescoping axiomatic didacticism into asymmetric concurrences", designed to try to keep the gullible from realizing the "artist" is just a posturing crook. With "validation" comes gallery shows and sales. And then the real part of the scam begins as the "art", once on the market, becomes an automatic commodity, subject to price escalation as more and more of the gullible become convinced the "artist" is legit. And then the pieces become investments, guaranteed to grow in price, an engineered bull marke. Incidentally, with their potenial for immense increase in price, their ease of transport and their lack of anything like serial numbers to trace them, "modern art" pieces have become handy clandestine currency for major drug exchanges. And it all begins with, and feeds off, notoriety, popularity, fame, manufacturing a name in the public eye. That's how Keith Haring got started, by getting known for being arrested plying graffiti everywhere.
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- That balloon and character has got to be the dumbest , bland , unfinished looking piece of art I have ever seen , its a joke. The people that think that is art and the people that think that is cool looking and something neat , make America look like a bunch of morons. That looks about as cool as a toilet paper tube with some X's drawn on it. WOW people are getting more stupid every year. The saying needs to be changed to now there is a sucker born every second.
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