http://c-monster.net/blog1/2008/07/01/art-criticism-spoofs-street-art-edition/ Where High Gets Low. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:53:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://c-monster.net/blog1/2008/07/01/art-criticism-spoofs-street-art-edition/#comment-15553 Tomorrow Museum » Archive » New Yorker Magazine Street Art Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:38:05 +0000 http://c-monster.net/blog1/2008/07/01/art-criticism-spoofs-street-art-edition/#comment-15553 [...] This is an aside titled 'New Yorker Magazine Street Art' dated 7/1/08 Someone wheatpasted a fake Peter Schjeldahl New Yorker critique about street art in Brooklyn. Says C-Monster, “I’m all for spoofing mainstream media, but, sadly, this piece doesn’t live up to its promise. For one, anybody who is gonna spoof the New Yorker better be able to deliver on the turn-of-phrase. This does not. (Sample sentence: “There is no sacrifice to putting this work on the street. That’s the street game, duh.”) On the content side, things don’t fare too well either. Someone risked arrest to let us know that there’s a visual kinship between the work of Swoon, Gaia and Elbow-Toe.” (Previously.) [...] [...] This is an aside titled ‘New Yorker Magazine Street Art’ dated 7/1/08 Someone wheatpasted a fake Peter Schjeldahl New Yorker critique about street art in Brooklyn. Says C-Monster, “I’m all for spoofing mainstream media, but, sadly, this piece doesn’t live up to its promise. For one, anybody who is gonna spoof the New Yorker better be able to deliver on the turn-of-phrase. This does not. (Sample sentence: “There is no sacrifice to putting this work on the street. That’s the street game, duh.”) On the content side, things don’t fare too well either. Someone risked arrest to let us know that there’s a visual kinship between the work of Swoon, Gaia and Elbow-Toe.” (Previously.) [...]

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