Today we went to the Whitney Biennial Show 2012. The show was pure trash. You will never convince me that just because the pieces are in the Whitney, they represent ART. Most are just gimmicky stuff that any grade-school student could come up with. I will never accept most of these phony, pretentious ""things"" as ART. The artist has no feeling or vision to convey. He is just thinking: Hmmm -- what stupid outrageous thing can I quickly toss together to make a buck??? Junk lying on the floor, and whole rooms that look just like my apartment -- messy ... is this ART?? NO!! These artists have no talent. The Whitney might do just as well to haul some trash bags and garbage pails from Madison Avenue into the museum and stack them in a room. I'm sure their gullible patrons will stand there admiring the subtle message of the work. Forget trying to read something into this pretentious trash which the Whitney is attempting to make you believe is ART. MOST of it needs to be swept into the incinerator! Go elsewhere. Don't waste your time and money!!!
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