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An artist has called 'bull***t' on the pretentious art world by sitting naked on a toilet for two days at a New York gallery. Lisa Levy, from Brooklyn, sat with no clothes on and remained silent ...
Levy sees this kind of art as being incredibly pretentious, saying: ‘Ego and pretense has seriously f*cked with the quality of work being made in the art world.’ You’d be right for thinking ...
Lucy Liu and more pop out of the woodwork in Figgis’ parody of pretentious art films. But beware, pretensions permeate “Hotel,” which as a movie about movies is the cinematic equivalent of a ...
There are also a terrifying number of installations pretending to be art when in fact they are just selfie zones. Competition is stiff, but we believe we may have found the most pretentious ...
Putting aside the virtues of press freedom, or a cultural witch hunt, depending on your point of view, what are we then saying about 'art'? In a week which has seen the controversial 'a'-word ...
Herron introduced himself and then asked me if I might be interested in serving as a model for his art group, “The Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists.” I hardly knew how to answer him.