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Hi Summer. Good to hear from you again. No, I haven't seen the work in question. Frankly, I'd have trouble just getting past the name. I'm really tired of "transgressive" art and I'm just waiting for that phase to past. That being said I'm not as down on all contemporary art as some are. There are some great things at the Museum of Modarn Art in New York and I look forward to seeing their new, expanded space. I admit to a real fondness for Jackson Pollock and I could stare at his drip paintings for hours.

It's the stuff that is deliberately offensive or purposely ugly that I strongly object to. It's not as if there's an excess of beauty in the world after all. Why deliberately create ugliness?

It's the stuff that is deliberately offensive or purposely ugly that I strongly object to. It's not as if there's an excess of beauty in the world after all. Why deliberately create ugliness?

Yeah, I agree. Art has the potential to inspire, inform, heal, and do so much good in the world. Yet, when people do something like the author of your article described (place human waste in a can and sell it as "art"), I think all they are really doing is seeking five minutes of fame for themselves. Unfortunately, they usually get it.