Because For $63M, Taxpayers Deserve Better Than Plain Anodized Aluminum

The Arts: A system whereby taxpayers help rich people decorate stepladders for their friends.

19 Replies to “Because For $63M, Taxpayers Deserve Better Than Plain Anodized Aluminum”

  1. Here we see a deep expression by the artist as xim/xer/xit is not only struggling with xim/xer/xit’s inherent inner racism, but xim/xer/xit’s gender expression, shouting carbon-free, open-bordered defiance against the coming epidemic apocalypse, started by Trump.

    Nah. Who am I kidding? It’s just some con artist (pun intended) who thinks people are dumb enough to consider a pool toy stuck on an aluminium ladder as art and, worse, paying good money for it and laughing all the way to the bank as some sucker actually buys it.

      1. Nope. Not visiting the Musee’. Ever. If this is the BEST of Canada’s new young “Artists”

        Oh, you Philistine! Have you no appreciation of beauty, the soulful expression that went into putting that pool toy onto the ladder? Can you imagine how the artist agonized about how high to put it and which direction it had to point? Think of how outrageous or obscene it would be if it had been 1 millimetre lower or the head faced the other way. It takes talent and self-sacrifice to put it together like that.

        But, noooooooo–it’s not like the Sistine blinkin’ Chapel is it? So you think that you know what real art is, don’t you?

        Future generations will mock you for your closed-mindedness. The enlightenment lies before you and you deride and reject it. They will remember, nay, revere Koons while that talentless nobody Michelangelo will have been long forgotten.

        No wonder the woke see you as deplorable.

        (sarcasm = off)

  2. A magnificent piece ! Despite the cheery colors and smiling face it is quite depressing. It showcases the pointlessness of humanity. No matter how we try to rise above the mundane and aspire to the stars, civilization will end up going to the dogs.

    OTOH this is merely theft, the result of their policies is not actively trying to kill you.

  3. This picture reminds me of the old story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. A few years ago, my sister and I were visiting Saskatoon and went to the Art Gallery. The highlighted show was of Indian Art with a smaller show of children’s artwork from Grade 5. We much preferred the children’s artwork. Plus, so much of the Indian Art was from the “artist’s personal collection”. In other words, no one wanted to buy it.

  4. OMG – I told my wife it was no big deal I didn’t put that stuff away in the shed and now I realize I should be taking it to the Remai Modern!

  5. It really is a stark example of just how self-involved these idiots are. That, and the slavish following of those who have no opinions of their own and wouldn’t know real art if it bit them.

    1. Ah, but reclaiming your ladder will only add to its artistic value. It first started as a static display and then, by taking back your property, you would turn it into a piece of performance art, thereby increasing its monetary value.

  6. A minor point – the building cost $84.63M not $63M (if that’s what the headline is referring to.)

    Remai Modern has received just over $16 million from the Government of Canada. An initial grant of $13 million went toward capital construction costs of the $84.63-million building.

  7. “Modernism” killed the traditional arts in the early twentieth century.
    In the beginning, the proponents were actually great artists in their own right, but wanted to experiment with more freedom from classical forms. I have no problems with early results of such experimentation, and I love the works of Monet et al. in painting, William Butler Yeats in poetry, Mussorgsky in classical music. But later artists, still great, still trained in the classics, began abandoning form altogether. Thus Picasso in painting, T. S. Eliot in poetry, Stravinsky in classical music.
    They had a purpose. They all had classical training, and they deviated from classical forms not because they could not create in them, but because they wanted to push the boundary. The problem was, what they did gave an excuse for hordes of shysters with no talent and no training, who cannot create in classical forms if their lives depended on it, to parade as artists. And the museums, academia, and concert halls buy into that nonsense.
    And it has only gotten worse.
    Novels have long replaced “modern poetry” in creativity and inspiration. Movie themes are much more in the tradition of classical music than the modernist junk played in concert halls. And one can argue artistic photography is a truer heir of classical painting than “modern art.” So be it. The twentieth century saw the rise of the common man, and these are arts more suited for him. Let the elitists have their modern junk.

  8. Taxing Joe Sixpack to subsidize the tuxedo owning poseurs to fawn over “art” that demonstrates the creativity of monkeys to pay the laughing all the way to the bank fraudsters that sign these works.

    1. That fact must surely be significant. I guess that using an all-aluminium ladder would have meant that the artist was, say, supporting the evil white male patriarchy or some such thing.

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