“Sputter sputter. Error GOTO Mouse stock 2014 beep boop.”

I don’t have any issue with that in principle. I think it could be great for museums to have exhibits be curated by people who don’t approach art with the same solemnity and restraint that professional curators do.

On a side note, Uwe Boll had a restaurant that reviewed pretty well so I hear. German version of Iron Chef perhaps?

Cuz my vidda-gaemz.

He threatened Paul Gauguin (a friend of his) with a straight razor, and one can’t forget that he handed his severed ear to a 17-year old girl who worked at a brothel his frequented..

Van Gogh was already doing very problematic things well before he killed himself. Whether or not they were part and parcel to his mental…

The first sentence of the second paragraph mentions Gadsby is a co-curator, so I simply looked up who else gets credit.

If you read the NYT article, it’s mostly that there’s very little to the exhibit. It features very few of Picasso’s works, and the works it features are all pretty minor. Gadsby’s monologue on Picasso (which is part of the exhibit) makes repeated fun of cubism, but the exhibit only has one tiny piece of Picasso’s…

NYT is still a legit newspaper; AVC is a click trap.

Going back to my BFA days (er, never made it to the M), I remember a series of lecturers breathlessly going on about how Van Gogh fell in...love, maybe...with Sien, a prostitute who basically didn’t care about about him and never reciprocated much of anything, and that was a beautiful, wonderful tragedy and the power…

Apparently, Gadsby does (which another commenter was helpful enough to point out, because clearly AVClub doesn’t feel its important enough to bother with that context).

I don’t even know that it’s commodification. I think that a lot of the time people have knee-jerk reactions to things that are relatively extreme, but eventually time and thought will moderate those reactions. Think about all the times that you’ve seen footage of people coming out of a movie theater gushing with…

From Brooklyn Museum’s website:

Hm, I vividly remember Nanette being called out as a glorified TED talk a LOT. But I also remember critical voices being yelled down with shrill and histrionic replies like “you just can’t cope a smart female comedian”. 2018 was still very close to the metoo years

Boots Riley shows that while everyone’s credentials can be questioned, they certainly all shouldn’t be.  He’s been knocking on that door for 30+ years.

Taking someone’s comments out of context and attacking them for it is very much the language of twitter.

“Please sir, c’n I have some minotaur?”

I’ve heard good things about her specials, but I also feel like, as someone who works in the mental health field, I could probably figure out what her main points are before she even says them. So I’ve skipped everything she’s done, for better or worse.

At any rate, this seems like a dumb idea, and dumb ideas generate…

Is this a joke? She went to school for art. Those were her first jobs, and that's why she talks about it on stage. 

It makes more sense in context in the linked article.

All billionaires are morally reprehensible, so it's okay for me to work with any of them?