Art is Art?

Flip­ping to the Op-​Ed page of the Boston Globe today, I was suprised and encour­aged to see that they printed a column crit­i­ciz­ing a recent exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York. This kind of exhibit, which fea­tured works that use Holo­caust themes (and nazi sym­bols) in a post­mod­ernist con­text of irony and kitsch, seems so tired and done-​before, and con­tributes little to the tra­di­tion of Art and cul­tural offer­ings in this country.

And if the Globe isn’t a suf­fi­ciently Lib­eral source, (it’s prob­a­bly the most Lib­eral major news­pa­per of record, thank­fully), The Vil­lage Voice offered a neg­a­tive review too. I’d be inter­ested to hear first-​hand, from people who’ve attended it. Anyone checked it out?

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