Man Pretty Sure Critic Who Didn't Like His Art Just Needs to Get Laid
LatestIf a female art critic doesn’t like a male artist’s work, it’s because she’s an embittered, sexless old hag. That’s just basic Art Science. And so who could possibly be mad at artist Loris Gréaud, who responded to one art editor’s bad review with a message urging her to “get a boyfriend?”
Lauren Smart is the Arts Editor at the Dallas Observer (where, full disclosure, I used to work, although Smart and I don’t know each other). On Friday, Smart wrote a less-than-flattering review of Gréaud’s new show at the Dallas Contemporary gallery, which she found just kind of… meh. The artist hired a bunch of people to destroy all the art midway through the opening night party. Smart wasn’t sure she quite got the point, writing:
I’ve been thinking about it a lot for the past week. What did he mean by destroying the art? Or what did he mean by his installation in the first place? There is something that’s meant to be site-specific, right? This work was created for the Dallas Contemporary over five years of discussion. He made a large, pretentious, vapid exhibition that you can imagine people walking through, nodding and smiling, before being escorted out for a fabricated emergency.
Pretentious? Vapid? Modern art? NO WAY. (Just a quick programming note here: the artist’s Facebook profile photo is him in blackface rocking sort of a Hitler ‘stache and hairdo, because this man is Edgy and his art is Serious.)