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Art imitates future Art

After the collapse of this civilization and the slow reconstruction of the next, humans will look back at to the Art of the late 20th and early 21st century and see no names. Today’s great artists will be tomorrow’s footnotes and curiosities.

This isn’t to say that the idolatrous, elitist and narcissistic character of today’s artworld will go without some future scholarship, just that it will only be discussed among aberrant academics in their doctoral theses.

The real focus of post-American hegemonic world civilization will be our advertising. Like marble-carved gods stand for Rome’s, advertising will be our monument to the future. Just like Roman Art, by the time anyone decides to care, the names of our graphic designers, editors and propagandists will be unimportant and forgotten.

I’d have to write a thesis to prove this point and I sure as hell haven’t done the research to do that, but trust me. I’m right. Think about it.

This isn’t to say that I don’t like today’s Art. I love it. I just don’t think it has a whole lot of historical importance or significance. Which reminds me, go to Zoe Strauss’s Under I-95 show this Sunday, under I-95, Front and Mifflin, 1-4PM. For our time, it’s a gravely important event.

One other thing. Advertising imitates art. The other day I was searching for pictures of crack whores (don’t ask) when I came across the porn site crackwhoreconfessions.com. The images on their front page really reminded me of something.

(First photo Zoe Strauss’s “Camden Crack” other photos, uncredited from crackwhoreconfessions.com)