The New Criterion calls shenanigans on graffiti masquerading as modern art
Épater la bourgeois: shocking the middle class has been a cherished goal of the avant garde since the birth of the movement in the nineteenth century. The fact that the middle class long ago enlisted themselves as co-collaborators in this project of rote titillation transformed the avant garde into a reactionary force in everything but posture and rhetoric.
If it’s so great, why don’t the yuppies get someone to graffiti their houses?
