Jerry Saltz Explains MoMAs Kippenberger Retrospective

In last week's magazine, New York's senior art critic Jerry Saltz praises the curators of the Museum of Modern Art's new retrospective on Martin "The Artist Who Did Everything" Kippenberger for "shutting down the awful academic echo chamber that has tried to turn Kippenberger into one cutout caricature or another: cagey gamesman, aesthetic tinkerer, fun drunk, anti-hero. They let his insurrectionary freedom and radicalism come out." Saltz recently went back to MoMA with Vulture videographer Jonah Green to walk us through the highlights, including a brown-painted Ford covered in oat flakes and a "Kafkaesque scene from hell, but also from Ikea." Enjoy!

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[1acount]

@accabonacsue if only i got paisdforandmshiz

[shadowmorphman]

Jerry... Shadowmorphman likes your SHADOW! Believe in Shadows Jerry...

[accabonacsue]

I like Jerry's enthusiasm about the work. I was fortunate to see the show. It was everything I thought I didn't like until Kippenberger made me see things his way. I was overwhelmed at the guy's genius and his madness. The show was a WOW! That is the highest rating I give to any artist. It's when the method and the meaning come together, the viewer is taken in and away by the message; WOW life and art are restorative and inspirational. Give the artist a chance to show you the way.

[stevestevejam]

Like the recent New Museum exhibition, Take out the trash, Bring in the recycling, To much fragmentation and 'gibberish.

Institutionalize 'Art as a commercial vehicle and this is what we get!

[stevestevejam]

I think the question should not be: Is this 'Art or Not?

But rather should this be 'Art? and in this case Should this be 'Sculpture? 'Art is inevitable at this time, Its a waste of time, But general transitions of vocabulary to define such things as Sculpture or Painting is more relevant than asking ones self the 'Art Question; Morals Morals Morality!

One may wonder why 'art has so diversified 'itself in Media, there are many reason which all account to social fiscal comedy in the like!

[XxmyxbrokenxwingsxX]

wow! =D that's actually really cool XD