Oliver Stone has a new project in mind.
Baudrillard would have something to say about the habit, lately so blatantly repetitive, of talking about the Holocaust. It's sick.
It would be interesting to count how many exhibitions, movies and books have been about the Holocaust in the last few years to unpick the exact reasons why.
"Alternative" art first caught my attention a couple of years ago when I visited a small gallery in London that exhibited shit work - literally I mean: sculptures, a lot of them, made by what I recall being a Spanish or South American artist who employs faecis and turn them into art objects. Then there was a dog by the same artist, whom he let die of starvation while calling the process "modern art".
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The Tate has just bought some William Blake hand-made pictures. The inscription for one of them, depicting a naked man clasping his head in pain as he is consumed by flames, reads: "I sought Pleasure & found Pain." My thought exactly every morning when I go to work; I wonder if I also look the same. The museum paid £441m for these pieces.
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