All too typical and not at all surprising since
musuems and galleries often gravitate toward
vacuous contemporary work which makes the wealthy 
patrons feel edgy and happening.  

Greg Boozell
gboozell@juno.com


-- Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com> wrote:
New York Post [Page Six] - May 23, 2006

ART WITH AN F IN LONDON

THE geniuses who run the art world in London are getting their just 
deserts. They awarded the prestigious Turner Prize to Martin Creed 
for his work titled "The Lights Going On and Off," in which a pair of 
gallery lights were programmed to go on and off at regular intervals. 
Now Creed has installed "Work No. 401" in London's preeminent museum, 
the Tate Modern, which reverberates with a nine-minute recording - 
playing on a loop - of the artist breaking wind. As art lovers try to 
admire paintings by Claude Monet and Mark Rothko, they are bombarded 
with Creed's flatulence, The Times of London reports. But the 
museum's curators defend Creed's work. "This kind of acoustic - you 
hear it every day of your life," said director Vicente Todoli, who 
must live in a noisy neighborhood. "This is not a cathedral with the 
relics of a saint in which you're supposed to kneel down in front of 
it."
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