Here's what happened to last year's winner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STeVTzWel…

Not a pretty sight!

Is Seattle art that bad that a gardener won the art award? She didn't even attempt anything artistic or fantastic as Jeff Koons plant puppy. Can someone please ask the Genius who thinks a generic garden is art and of a caliber of receiving praise as an art god! You should be ashamed as an art critic for diminishing true art geniusness. Dont get me wrong the garden is fantastic for the neighborhood and urban planing much like most gardens and landscaping are but I am now beginning to despise the art scene in Seattle like a cancerous growth killing what is good because of this snotty uneducated art leadership so content with the safe boring awfulness. Do you not have a concept of what art is? Im sure you read Jerry Saltz. What do you think he'd say about this crap. I'd still bet you wouldn't understand or know what emerging art is if it isn't a salmon or tree painting. There needs to be an uprising against the art dictators in this city because from what i've seen the drunks at the bar know more then you.