“... he has reduced painting to its very essence, and a lot of people don’t understand that.” - as an artist I do not consider that ‘art.’ It’s a piece someone thought to long about and came up with nothing but a mirage of long words.
60 Minutes is great !! **I was in my 20's when this story first aired and I simply shook my head & rolled my eyes. I'm in my 50's now though, and still havent changed my opinion !!
I remember this. I was in high school and I too, shook my head and still do. People with too much money and not enough sense. The "artists" are grifters. But hey, if folks are dumb enough, there's a sucker born every minute
The problem is because wealthy and connected collectors buy these works, the artists ends up being considered “important” and we, the general public end up having their art shoved down our throats at museums, public spaces, popular culture, media and the such. Then you’ve got people thinking that because it’s so expensive it must be good.
This is relentless! OMG, I promise I am giving this as an audible story to my middle school 7th/8th grade art education students. They really do not like to read. Maybe because some cannot read, some can read but cannot comprehend, while others just do not care. As a teacher we are constantly hounded on teaching in various styles or techniques. So, I give full articles at times, I give audibles at other times, I read the story aloud, or I supply a visual audible/video as this one here. In either case it shows I am flexible and trying my best to accomodate all learners and students with IEP's. Nonetheless, I want my art education students to know reading, comprehending, critically thinking as well as interpreting the meaning behind the material is important. I will not let them go without reading and writing in art. My art class encompasses all things in art. PERIOD!
"An artist is somebody who calls himself an artist, and there are no other tests." Well, then, that's the last standard/test to be eliminated. Soon, an artist will be somebody who refuses to call himself an artist, and who rejects the very concept of art.
Bless everyone at 60 Minutes and whoever's responsible for putting this video on UA-cam. It's important that we can see when the emperor has no clothes. I'm dismayed (and saddened) that "art" still sells for tens of millions of dollars when people go to sleep hungry.
I’m glad this episode is on here. I was explaining it to someone and they thought it wasn’t true, so I’ve sent it to them. It’s just people with too much money that will spend it on anything. Some make a profit, because there is a sucker born every minute. Art takes talent, and these take no talent. Minimal artist means minimal talent for a sucker.
If the Mona Lisa was by an unknown artist it would no doubt be worth a fraction of its current value, but it would still be a very desirable work of art and would command a hefty price. If an unsinged spidery drawing by Tracy Emin and 3 paper mache urinals turned up for sale at an auction, would they get a single bid?
The urinals are the worst. At least Duchamp used a real urinal. Maybe the art is in how little art is actually in the piece. Oh God, I think I’m having a psychotic episode.
Besides being a not so subtle money laundering operation, this "art" also accomplishes their goal of societal degeneration and demoralization. I wonder who could be behind this?
This pre-dates the Young British Artists (YBAs) who took the art world by storm in the mid-1990s - and made Damien Hirst the wealthiest fine artist in the world.
I admittedly don’t understand some modern works of art, but this segment didn’t do justice to the “candy” installation, which consists of a pile of candies weighing approximately 175lb, representing the weight of the artist’s partner (who succumbed to AIDS in the 1980s) when he was healthy. So, when people take away a piece of candy, it represents the decimation of the disease on the human body as it withers to nothing.
The Collector seems to be screwing up the whole process then when she replenishes hit with new Candy. It seems like maybe the artwork would be more effective if you were told to throw the rapper back into the pile and then could only replenish it once every piece of candy was gone and started the whole thing over again. Thank you for your explanation. Without it it's just a meaningless pile of red white and blue candies. With the explanation in my mind it's the sweetness of life being consumed by unknown seed or Anonymous forces.
The face of Mr. Safer sometimes is really a poem!!! :D I understood some of the art, other nop, the white rectangule, was the moment of lack of inspiration perhaps... but it could be art? or not? :D
Wow. Listen to these people trying to sound so conceptual and intelligent. Literally anyone could get a vacuum cleaner and set it up like that, and yet it was revered.
I really regret throwing away the tarps we laid down during painting last year. we had black tarp to catch the white wall paint and the blue trim. It was full of little drips and smears, probably worth half a million pounds.
This is just more proof that theirs a lot of people "with more money than brains". I can think of a lot better art, and a lot better ways to spend the insane amounts of money. Thanks.
🤦🏼♂️ I can barely handle your hypocritical irony. I think you meant to type “there’s” not “theirs”. Is there anything funnier than a pretentious idiot saying “theirs a lot of people with more money than brains”? 🥴 Maybe you should spend less time thinking about ways to spend money and more time on your grammar.
25 years later "Koons", is more prevalent then ever. Hilton Kramer, "he dead", and forgotten, that is the way of the art world. I watch this video every now and then, to humble me and not take the easy way out to fame.
This Safer rant is so tired but people still love it. And repeat it. The super-rich float around the world in luxury mega-yachts followed by huge ships full of their toys (the toys, which include cars, helicopters, and submarines would be tacky to keep on their luxury mega-yachts) and the average American adult spends about 2000 hours a year watching TV and other video. Why is it only the dollars and time spent on modern art that raises such ire or is described as coming at the expense of the poor? Most modern artists do art because they are driven to do it, and they fall far short of making a living. The wealthy bidding on art at Sotheby's are there because they love the art OR they want to demonstrate their wealth to other rich people by spending incredible sums on something that has no obvious function. None of this is new or unique to modern art. Tax the rich properly and the prices will come down to earth. Do I begrudge the handful of artists who make a good living? Are they creating less value than a similarly compensated pop star, sports hero, or stock broker? Like the pop star and sports hero they have somehow distinguished themselves from hordes of others who have aspired to succeed in their field. (No matter how you got rich, by luck, smarts, or inheritance, your tax rate is too low.) www.businessinsider.com/luxury-yacht-garcon-support-photos-2014-2 techcrunch.com/2018/07/31/u-s-adults-now-spend-nearly-6-hours-per-day-watching-video/
It is amusing to me when I see rich people criticize other rich people for buying something they think is absurd. Or criticize public spending on art installations while lobbying for lower taxes so they can buy a bigger yacht. I wonder how many $150 bottles of wine Morley Safer drank in his life that he wouldn't notice if you switched for something that was $10 a bottle.
I guess Morley was wrong... some of this stuff IS aging well. A Jean-Michel Basquiat painting similar to the one at 9:49 in this story sold at auction in 2017 for $110 million.
You've guessed wrong. Morley Safer was right. So what if the works are auctioned off for millions of dollars? Money has no value to a young dead man, it's only valuable to the art world that killed him & ravaged his worth like vultures in tuxedos.
Basquiat was a genius not only for his appeal to the intellectual but for his simplistic and direct approach to language and technique. The symbolism of placing vague crowns next to the written names of heroic figures in black culture is something anyone can grasp.
I also don't like how they cheapen his death. He was very much a victim of the art world. The pressure from gallerists and the public to produce more works combined with the constant disruption of buyers and critics into his studio lead him into a deep heroin addiction. He did not receive help for this addiction, instead it was added to his mystique, think "poor tortured artist". Eventually it killed him and the auction houses rejoiced as his works sky rocketed in value.
As with anything , people have an idea of what something should be, and when that idea is challenged in any way, they do their best to dismiss it. You see this especially in music and art. The funny part is when they get folks that say, "I can do that or my kid can do that", yet they spend more time criticizing than creating.
How do people with a spare $170,000 to blow on a piece of "art" make the $170,000 in the first place? Well, they surely are economically talented individuals aren't they! Let's give them a tax break so they can buy 3 urinals. Trickle down economics ... literally.
If you really analyze classical paintings, you'd be able to find multiple stories, multiple meanings and multiple detail. Now you get the phrase you'd tell your home visitors to sound cool when you present the piece.
Dayan! Me and my two girls are going to be RRRRRICH! 4 giant turds, courtesy of my girls, floating in a fish tank! Foevever and ever and ever and ever and ever ♾️😂😂😂😂
Art is in the eyes of the beholder. There are a lot of simpletons out there that do no SEE that it is art. It shows ones lack of exposure to modern art can cripple your mind and expose your ignorance.
Art as object, readymade. Conceptual art as defined by Duchamp. Anything can be art. This idea is 100 years old. Read a book. Duchamp biggest artist of 20th century, not Picasso.
Thank you, 60 Minutes, for making this episode publicly available!!
"Art Speak" is such a good way to explain what they say to convince buyers to buy.
"He's a minimal artist"
"I would say so."
Dead, I'm dead 🙃🤣
“... he has reduced painting to its very essence, and a lot of people don’t understand that.” - as an artist I do not consider that ‘art.’ It’s a piece someone thought to long about and came up with nothing but a mirage of long words.
And here you are using the word mirage to validate your point of view
@@keylupveintisiete7552 🤣
60 Minutes is great !!
**I was in my 20's when this story first aired and I simply shook my head & rolled my eyes. I'm in my 50's now though, and still havent changed my opinion !!
1993 was a year before I was born. It's hard to imagine people that only in their 20s when I was born today are on their 50s. Time flies.
I was 5 days old when this aired.
I remember this. I was in high school and I too, shook my head and still do. People with too much money and not enough sense. The "artists" are grifters. But hey, if folks are dumb enough, there's a sucker born every minute
The problem is because wealthy and connected collectors buy these works, the artists ends up being considered “important” and we, the general public end up having their art shoved down our throats at museums, public spaces, popular culture, media and the such. Then you’ve got people thinking that because it’s so expensive it must be good.
This is relentless! OMG, I promise I am giving this as an audible story to my middle school 7th/8th grade art education students. They really do not like to read. Maybe because some cannot read, some can read but cannot comprehend, while others just do not care. As a teacher we are constantly hounded on teaching in various styles or techniques. So, I give full articles at times, I give audibles at other times, I read the story aloud, or I supply a visual audible/video as this one here. In either case it shows I am flexible and trying my best to accomodate all learners and students with IEP's. Nonetheless, I want my art education students to know reading, comprehending, critically thinking as well as interpreting the meaning behind the material is important. I will not let them go without reading and writing in art. My art class encompasses all things in art. PERIOD!
"An artist is somebody who calls himself an artist, and there are no other tests."
Well, then, that's the last standard/test to be eliminated. Soon, an artist will be somebody who refuses to call himself an artist, and who rejects the very concept of art.
but that already... happened. that's dada and anti-art in a nutshell.
@@AlaastChen even Dada didn’t create anything new. The Incoherents did all of that in the 19th century.
Bless everyone at 60 Minutes and whoever's responsible for putting this video on UA-cam. It's important that we can see when the emperor has no clothes. I'm dismayed (and saddened) that "art" still sells for tens of millions of dollars when people go to sleep hungry.
the rich who would spend millions of dollars on art would have never given a cent to the hungry. maybe to buy some gold bars or a yacht
It’s the perfect art for our vacuous times: all marketing sizzle, no substance.
They don't sell good art but sell you a story instead
I’m glad this episode is on here. I was explaining it to someone and they thought it wasn’t true, so I’ve sent it to them. It’s just people with too much money that will spend it on anything. Some make a profit, because there is a sucker born every minute. Art takes talent, and these take no talent. Minimal artist means minimal talent for a sucker.
If there is ever a need for "Where are they and Where is it now ?"
I had to come here after Anderson Cooper’s interview with Koons this evening to regain a semblance of sanity.
The language is hilarious!
If the Mona Lisa was by an unknown artist it would no doubt be worth a fraction of its current value, but it would still be a very desirable work of art and would command a hefty price.
If an unsinged spidery drawing by Tracy Emin and 3 paper mache urinals turned up for sale at an auction, would they get a single bid?
depends on how bad u needed to pee to answer your last question
The urinals are the worst. At least Duchamp used a real urinal. Maybe the art is in how little art is actually in the piece.
Oh God, I think I’m having a psychotic episode.
It's art when it's in a museum, not when it's at Home Depot.
Besides being a not so subtle money laundering operation, this "art" also accomplishes their goal of societal degeneration and demoralization. I wonder who could be behind this?
I hope you're not saying our greatest ally
“Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”
― Andy Warhol
😉
Much-needed dose of perspective and sense.
This pre-dates the Young British Artists (YBAs) who took the art world by storm in the mid-1990s - and made Damien Hirst the wealthiest fine artist in the world.
okay the flower puppy was cute though
It was "heroic"!
if people want to buy stupid stuff its their own fault.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then the beholder needs to see an optometrist immediately.
I admittedly don’t understand some modern works of art, but this segment didn’t do justice to the “candy” installation, which consists of a pile of candies weighing approximately 175lb, representing the weight of the artist’s partner (who succumbed to AIDS in the 1980s) when he was healthy. So, when people take away a piece of candy, it represents the decimation of the disease on the human body as it withers to nothing.
Or it's just $35 worth of candy.
The Collector seems to be screwing up the whole process then when she replenishes hit with new Candy. It seems like maybe the artwork would be more effective if you were told to throw the rapper back into the pile and then could only replenish it once every piece of candy was gone and started the whole thing over again. Thank you for your explanation. Without it it's just a meaningless pile of red white and blue candies. With the explanation in my mind it's the sweetness of life being consumed by unknown seed or Anonymous forces.
The face of Mr. Safer sometimes is really a poem!!! :D I understood some of the art, other nop, the white rectangule, was the moment of lack of inspiration perhaps... but it could be art? or not? :D
Brian Sewell is a Savage! Totally agree with everything he said. Absolute rubbish not art at all. This is an insult to real art.
Wow. Listen to these people trying to sound so conceptual and intelligent. Literally anyone could get a vacuum cleaner and set it up like that, and yet it was revered.
Right...
Yes, well because don't you know, it's a "Jeff Koons".
But you didn't and he did.
I really regret throwing away the tarps we laid down during painting last year. we had black tarp to catch the white wall paint and the blue trim. It was full of little drips and smears, probably worth half a million pounds.
This is just more proof that theirs a lot of people "with more money than brains". I can think of a lot better art, and a lot better ways to spend the insane amounts of money. Thanks.
🤦🏼♂️ I can barely handle your hypocritical irony. I think you meant to type “there’s” not “theirs”. Is there anything funnier than a pretentious idiot saying “theirs a lot of people with more money than brains”? 🥴 Maybe you should spend less time thinking about ways to spend money and more time on your grammar.
25 years later "Koons", is more prevalent then ever. Hilton Kramer, "he dead", and forgotten, that is the way of the art world. I watch this video every now and then, to humble me and not take the easy way out to fame.
This Safer rant is so tired but people still love it. And repeat it.
The super-rich float around the world in luxury mega-yachts followed by huge ships full of their toys (the toys, which include cars, helicopters, and submarines would be tacky to keep on their luxury mega-yachts) and the average American adult spends about 2000 hours a year watching TV and other video.
Why is it only the dollars and time spent on modern art that raises such ire or is described as coming at the expense of the poor?
Most modern artists do art because they are driven to do it, and they fall far short of making a living. The wealthy bidding on art at Sotheby's are there because they love the art OR they want to demonstrate their wealth to other rich people by spending incredible sums on something that has no obvious function. None of this is new or unique to modern art. Tax the rich properly and the prices will come down to earth.
Do I begrudge the handful of artists who make a good living? Are they creating less value than a similarly compensated pop star, sports hero, or stock broker? Like the pop star and sports hero they have somehow distinguished themselves from hordes of others who have aspired to succeed in their field.
(No matter how you got rich, by luck, smarts, or inheritance, your tax rate is too low.)
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Thank you for summing up my thoughts perfectly.
It is amusing to me when I see rich people criticize other rich people for buying something they think is absurd. Or criticize public spending on art installations while lobbying for lower taxes so they can buy a bigger yacht. I wonder how many $150 bottles of wine Morley Safer drank in his life that he wouldn't notice if you switched for something that was $10 a bottle.
I have some art in my toilet! Somebody better buy it before I flush it!
Koons is a con
😂
I guess Morley was wrong... some of this stuff IS aging well. A Jean-Michel Basquiat painting similar to the one at 9:49 in this story sold at auction in 2017 for $110 million.
You've guessed wrong. Morley Safer was right. So what if the works are auctioned off for millions of dollars? Money has no value to a young dead man, it's only valuable to the art world that killed him & ravaged his worth like vultures in tuxedos.
Basquiat was a genius not only for his appeal to the intellectual but for his simplistic and direct approach to language and technique. The symbolism of placing vague crowns next to the written names of heroic figures in black culture is something anyone can grasp.
I also don't like how they cheapen his death. He was very much a victim of the art world. The pressure from gallerists and the public to produce more works combined with the constant disruption of buyers and critics into his studio lead him into a deep heroin addiction. He did not receive help for this addiction, instead it was added to his mystique, think "poor tortured artist". Eventually it killed him and the auction houses rejoiced as his works sky rocketed in value.
As with anything , people have an idea of what something should be, and when that idea is challenged in any way, they do their best to dismiss it. You see this especially in music and art. The funny part is when they get folks that say, "I can do that or my kid can do that", yet they spend more time criticizing than creating.
at one od these art fairs the janitors threw some od it away cause they thought it was trash lol
And often that is literally what it is, empty coffee cans and banana peels.
People buy art as an investment. What your looking at is no different then people buying stocks.
Art is something you want to experience again and again. So, not this visual noise.
View... "blurred lines... 2017 art market" on youtube. It explains the rolling foolishness of high end art world.
"We need
More of
Product"
The only word for this kind of art is "obscene".
So disrespectful to Jean Michel.. His career was saved by dying. We get that Morley didn't like modern art, but jeez
,Art speak like political speak is the uttering of nonsensical stagnation. In retrospect, it's little wonder that I fell asleep in art history.
I couldn't agree more.
I think the people that buy modern art and contemporary art are polar opposite of the people who make them.
"You know what's happening!? We're partying,like you!"- Gimme Shelter!
Looks like high quality money laundering to me :D
Eschatological is not pronounced “eh-SKAT-ological” albeit some critics do pronounce Schnabels art as scatological.
they should put a sin tax on modern art sales
How do people with a spare $170,000 to blow on a piece of "art" make the $170,000 in the first place? Well, they surely are economically talented individuals aren't they! Let's give them a tax break so they can buy 3 urinals. Trickle down economics ... literally.
When investment professional do this they get charged and convicted of fraud.
I only wish I'd bought some of these works back then ....you won't find a Twombly or Koons for under $10 million now.
Anyone who calls this pretentious garbage "heroic" should be sent to the trenches of war.
All these works are worth 10 fold now
Depends what you mean by worth. It's not necessarily the same as price.
And now a banana duct taped to a piece of drywall fetched $6.2 million. Morley was right.
Money laundering at it's finest
utter pretentious drivel
have you heard of "investment speak" ?
If you really analyze classical paintings, you'd be able to find multiple stories, multiple meanings and multiple detail.
Now you get the phrase you'd tell your home visitors to sound cool when you present the piece.
His throat is burned out from all the cigarettes
I call it.................Untitled.
Que lástima que personas con tanto dinero lo gasten en algo tan superfluo.
PT Barnum was right!
What are ten facts in this video
This is not art !
The art world is superficially fake, if that make sense.
lollollol
Dayan! Me and my two girls are going to be RRRRRICH! 4 giant turds, courtesy of my girls, floating in a fish tank! Foevever and ever and ever and ever and ever ♾️😂😂😂😂
That was supposed to be “Dayak” 😂
Oh! My! God! “DAYAM”! Fk off autocorrect 😡
Urinal is art😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hilarious
The most pretentious person in the entire video is Brian Sewell.
Money-laundering.
Just like pet rocks and crypto ...
Money Laundering
Goofy vid
Art is in the eyes of the beholder. There are a lot of simpletons out there that do no SEE that it is art. It shows ones lack of exposure to modern art can cripple your mind and expose your ignorance.
🤣 Stop, you're killing me!
Art as object, readymade. Conceptual art as defined by Duchamp. Anything can be art. This idea is 100 years old. Read a book. Duchamp biggest artist of 20th century, not Picasso.