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“Money is sacred in our capitalist society. And despite a lifetime of passing it around, very few of us have ever thought to destroy the lucre in our hands.”
“What is art, and what’s not?” begins a local CBS article which examines (or instigates, rather) controversy surrounding a new downtown mural by Barry McGee, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. (Watch the video if you have a few minutes; it’s really pretty embarrassing.) “Whether the display is beautiful is up for debate,” it continues, defining “real art” as some outdated notion of beauty, and anything outside this canon as an “eyesore”. Get with it, San Diego. While MCASD is trying to introduce public works by Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Invader, and others to this arts-deprived city, the public calls the local news anytime they see anything outside convention. Whether McGee’s mural is pretty or not is beside the point, censoring what’s new or different will never lead to progress in a community. But who cares — after he’s finished it’ll probably just get painted over with a giant fresco of Shamu.
As you may or may not have taken record of, most of the TMY team took a vacation up the coast of California. Our apologies for the stale blog … we left our laptops at home and took a break from the second life.
So, just for you, we created a little video of our tour up the California coast and compiled a playlist based on our favorite in-car songs. Hey Alright!
