This is what happens when the ideologue views art.

The ideologue examines the art only for political messages. If these are missing, the art is pronounced "shallow," perhaps even "bourgeois." The ideologue may have come away from the art thinking about time and space and his relationship to it, but this must be cast aside, this must be pronounced irrelevant-- these observations on mere human existence can not be "deep," because they do not contain any politics, the only thing the ideologue has any appetite for.

This loss, the loss of the ability to appreciate just about everything in art, is an inevitable consequence of pledging oneself to ideology. All ideologues, eventually, will become Zhdanovites.

Again, where does the stranger stand on infinity dick pics?

I need to know.

Instead of the erudite criticism of Jen Graves, we get a bunch of impressions by writers who don't really know anything about art. Great.

Isn't depth something that the serious viewer may read into works of art? And doesn't art reflect the artist's experience and her times? I haven't finished Kusama's autobiography yet, but having lived in fascistic World War II Japan and having been forced by her mom to spy on her father's brothel visits, I'm going to speculate that Kusama has had a much less privileged upbringing than Charles had, and that experience is, I am sure, reflected in her art. (See her phallus pieces, for example.)

How does that list of most popular posts on Slog actually work?

Right now there are four comments on this thread (not inlcluding this one) and this is the second "most popular" post.

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The answer to your question is "it doesn't."

The Stranger decided to build their own content-management system, rather than use any of the off-the-shelf software packages available. But they're not a software company, and they couldn't afford an experienced team to build the thing, so what they wound up with is a system that somehow manages to be both dog-slow and riddled with what appear to be caching bugs.

I love reading Mudede, learn a lot, think after reading. How disappointing to read this one! Because it's so dumb! On so many levels! Geez give me a fucking break.

Me: The Stranger shits on local artists, writers and bands. The can't possibly be anymore pretentious, arrogant and sanctimonious.
Mudede: Hold my double skim, soy, hazelnut latte. I have an international Artist that broke cultural and gender barriers to shit on
The Stranger: Everything you hate about hiptsers without the fake glasses!