A Stencil Graffiti of Dorian Gray

I think street art may be the last great movement in the ever-evolving world of modern art. Granted, it perhaps consists mostly of pop art and political or social satire, but I think what I enjoy the most of street artists today is their challenge to the context of which art can be perceived. I certainly don't claim to know everything there is to know about modern art (certain art history professors can attest to that), but I know what I like, and I like my art to say something rather than be something. It's all subjective anyway. I just think beauty can exist in the every day. Which is what this UK designer has done with these broken chair sculptures. Karen Ryan creates skeletal victims of these discarded furniture pieces and strews them about alley ways and empty fields. I probably wouldn't even notice them at first glance, and in a gallery setting they would lose some of the impact as these settings play a part of the piece as well.

I just hope they weren't scooped up and reassembled in someone's apartment. But, eh, that's the great thing about street art I suppose. It's so temporary. Some things are better appreciated that way.













Anyway, I'll dispense with the art speak for now and share this video of one of my favorite Television Personalities songs. I know they were referenced recently in a song by MGMT, and at first I was upset. But that's just silly. I'm no musical elitist, nor do I claim to know everything there is to know about even some of my most cherished musicians. And it should be a good thing when bands get shared beyond the world of small local record stores and millions of independent music blogs, right? What did the aging fist-shakers at kids and their music do in the days before the internet? I never wanted to be one of them, and hopefully if more musicians today play honest music such as this, I won't have to.