Visual Art Sep 25, 2008 at 4:00 am

Matt Browning's Massively Promising Debut About Men and Sports

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reading about this work makes my jock itch. exploring shifts in what it means to be masculine through sports, minimalist art history, beer and genitalia is an obvious, obvious, obvious gimmick. yes, it does flip the whole feminist art, vagina, textile, homemaker thing around on us, but when did people become so interested in commonplace symbolism again? when are artists going to stop seeking tightness in their arguments and start reaching for what they fail to understand? when will wonder trump wit?

art has become more and more boring as it has lost its ability to function as purely visual. i mean, do you want to smoke a joint and go look at this work? i'd rather watch some people walk around the mall.

there is a higher art that we aren't looking hard enough for right now.
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Wit trumps wonder. If you want wonder, stay out of contemporary art galleries and go to the fucking zoo or something.
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kirby keebler = lame
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kirby: the only 'art' i want to look at after smoking pot is a magic eye image. maybe you should clear your stoner mind, pick up a contemporary art theory book and see that people have been (re)interested in 'commonplace symbolism' since the late eighties with the onslaught of slacker/abject art.

there is a place/venue for fantastic art, art of wonder. its called comic-con.
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It's just another example of fratboy art. Boring!!
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hmmm...i see some of these points. especially the zoo comment.

i guess jen's doting kind of bothered me because this idea isn't that great and definitely not "massively promising." also, the whole "what does an artist do exactly?" shit. what the fuck is that. if that's the most productive thing artists can do then fuck artists. fuck art.

next year this browning guy is probably going to set up his approach using board games and putt putt golf to make a grand hypothesis about families in america and some buzz idea like 'stasis'. he'll dig through his art history books to find an aesthetic that fits the project (lets say 70's spoof). he'll make sure its all tight before calling the show "boardome." oh, also he'll be playing atari at the opening finishing a pitcher of koolaid every time he loses a life in pitfall. the grand punch line will be that the koolaid will be purple linking back to that famous familial suicide.

we should all just die.
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"we should all just die"....amen! And that saddest thing is that this shite aint a frat boy masquerading as an artist....its an artist playing the frat boy. I BET this fella went to art school.....and probably got caught in the "irony" of male-on-display via his numbnut fellow students. WHEN will these fuckers realize you cant PAY for artistic vision? And jens doting? well, just don't tell Jessica, ok? And anyways, its for "arts sake" HOW IRONIC!!!
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"we should all just die"....amen! And that saddest thing is that this shite aint a frat boy masquerading as an artist....its an artist playing the frat boy. I BET this fella went to art school.....and probably got caught in the "irony" of male-on-display via his numbnut fellow students. WHEN will these fuckers realize you cant PAY for artistic vision? And jens doting? well, just don't tell Jessica, ok? And anyways, its for "arts sake" HOW IRONIC!!!
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I LIKE TO JAM OUT WITH MY WANG OUT.

+ EYE H8 BASEBALL.

SHERMAN ALEXIE AND I ARE VERY AWARE THAT THE ONLY SPORT WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR REAAAAL REALLLY REAL ART IS BASKETBALL. SKEET ON THE HOOP!

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