Comment: Harbingers of the new Art?
October 9, 2007Vandal Punches Hole in a Monet in Paris.
Everyone’s seen this by now. What hasn’t been recognized is the potentially quasi-evental nature of this shattering of impressionism’s surface. Is this the social, intercalary or autocatalytic response to impressionism and neo-impressionisms, a bit of feedback from the socius to Art, or perhaps to the bureaucrats and curators of commodity-art? A challenge, no doubt. Or is it merely childish nihilism nevertheless producing unspeakably offensive results?
