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From: blp Category: Art Date: 22 February 2007 Time: 11:01 AM Review: Nice, especially the stuff on JJ Charlesworth. What I don't get is, there are loads of people who know quite well that the art world's become a ludicrous parody of itself, or even a parody of a parody from, say, a mainstream US TV show from the eighties, and some of them have something to say and say it on WWR, but none of them seem to get anywhere in the art world that might allow them to improve the situation. Is it because, as I suspect, they know, however unconsciously, that it's not worth trying, not because the dumbos are so totally in the ascendant, but because art itself has reached a historically inevitable point of unsalvageability that you almost have to be a bit of a dumbo to devote serious energy to critiquing or curating it? 'Course, it could just be that it's easier to bellyache intelligently than actually do something intelligent, but I don't think that quite accounts for the gulf between the intelligence of the piece above and the vapidity of Charlysworthy et al.