Last laugh on a bully
Cruel bullies describing themselves as modern avant-garde "artists" have done immeasurable harm to gullible cities and other institutions, and have permanently destroyed the whole idea of art.

I've mentioned the vicious filthy monster Dale Eldred, now fortunately deceased, who created costly and dangerous "works" of "art" in Kansas. Foolish officials weren't smart enough to see what he was doing, and went along with his sadistic psychotic plans because it made them feel cool and fashionable. Eldred's vicious "works" were so harmful that they had to be taken down after ordinary people saw through the cruelty.

The grandest bully of all is Christo, who has wasted huge quantities of public money to produce his very large thingamajigs.

Now it looks like a government is going to get the last laugh on Christo. Abu Dhabi is preparing to fund a huge pyramid made of empty oil barrels.

Christo denied that choosing oil barrels to build the structure was a comment on the region’s chief source of wealth and stressed that his idea was not born out of economic or political events, just ‘joy and beauty.’

Construction of the Mastaba will take 30 months, with hundreds of people involved. A German company has been commissioned to supply the coloured barrels.

A nearby ‘art campus’ will include an exhibition on the project, as well as housing a luxury hotel and restaurant.

Christo pretends that it's "not a comment", but with art bullies it's always a comment, and it's always an ironic nasty sneering lip-curling eye-rolling contemptuous comment, drooling with toxic civilization-rotting venom.

Clearly Abu Dhabi understands the comment, and is happy to repurpose the comment in a straightforward non-ironic way. Yup, we've got lots of oil money. This pyramid is a proud monument to our oil money.

Gotcha.

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Sidenote: There's a more precise Gotcha, a beautiful and genuinely artistic ending, to Eldred's nasty vile story. After a lifetime of murderously building terrorist weapons designed to fall on the unwary observer, Eldred was actually killed when his own "art" fell on him.

  ¶ 4:20 AM