Pop! Quiz: Is it go-go dancing or is it art?

i didn't vote, but eh.....everyone sees things differently...i don't see it as art....i mean, unless the style of go-go dancing is an art....then ok, i can see it.

i guess it's like singing....i don't think anyone can really just be a singer...i believe there are true forms of singing and certain ways to do singing...so if there is a certain way to do go-go dancing....then ok, i guess it is art....in a sense...

Andy did that, or that concept when he stood in the gallery window as his own installation in the early 60s. It's the type of thing he did that caused many to declaim him as destroying art, or at least destroying the modernist movement. After seeing this piece, I have to say there isn't a better example to prove that.

What we see here is a take off on Warhole's and other artists precepts. But now it's called Conceptual Art, as such it's academic art -something I usually loath. By academic I mean just that, that it's taught. But watching a dude disco dance in Gold Lamé Hot Pants? You can call it Aht if you like. I'll call it hot.

But that brings up the whole dispelling of Conceptual Art, in this case the museum itself goes behind the scenes to see what the "model" thinks, rather than discuss the purely academic points of the work, like "what does this art mean?" That is the allure and waste of Conceptual Art, that we are lulled into believing a piece might be important or even interesting if we, the unenlightened viewer, could find an understandable key to it's intimacy. There is no poetry in that.

And rather than try to imagine poetry where none exists, the museum is smart to project the irony through the dancer, who finds himself in a kind of bubble. Isn't this the type of exhibit you want to take a date to? I mean, isn't this the type of exhibit that will make you want to join a museum? If just to shock your friends with your Emperor's New Clothes? You dont have to know what it means. That's the point. What it means, doesn't matter when mom hangs your crayon drawing on the fridge, either.

I can't say that I dislike this piece, so I won't. I will say it is one of the few pieces of Conceptual Art that I could jack off to, so it gets mighty props for that. As far as ridiculing Conceptual Art (which folks love to do while deeming it "modern art"). I don't find Conceptual Art silly or useless. Like much of academic art it is created to amuse the minds of contemporary critics and to fill pages of reviews in Art Journals written by people who seek a construct to dissect rather than an idea that broadens our collective minds, or heaven forbid, a piece of poetry that forever changes your view of the world. I am talking about a masterpiece. Something we don't find in academic work.

I think this was 11th hour-pull-it-out-of-your-ass-last-ditch-effort art! He was probably sitting at a strip joint racking his brain over what he could pull out of his ass for his exhibit when he had a eureka! moment.

haha I kid but seriously the things that get carried out in the name of art. Like that jack ass who starved a dog as a gallery exhibit. Sometimes they think they can get away with murder (no dead doggie pun intended) if they just call it art. As an amateur painter and avid doodler, it gets me really riled up when people do that. I guess I'm just a stickler for the classic arts and not any of that conceptual/modern art nonsense cough* Damien Hirst* cough

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