2011 - The Lost year in Gnart

"Hey, you wanna get killed standing next to this sculpture? ...Thought so." - Richard Serra circa "in the day"

So far, the eleventh and 2000 year has been a total fucking bust in terms of anything radical or gnarly or "fuckin' epic" happening in the art world. In 2008, Richard Serra would have made some giant Cor-10 Steel half-circle that could have killed you. This year he's throwing down some drawings that probably have no wizards or www.yyzzarrddd.zzz in them. Fuck that. I'm never going to the Tate Modern again.

#FUCKTHISPLACE

Hero of the GNART movement, Ai WeiWei (@aiww) is being imprisoned by the Chinese government for being such a "fucking G from str8 gangsta town."

"FUCK EVERYBODY, ESPECIALLY MY GOVERNMENT!" - @aiww circa his freedom from political imprisonment

Its pretty obvious that any kind of "FREE AI WEIWEI" t-shirt company would either be incensitive or just not gnarly in anyway; so Urban Outfitters has probably thought about it already and started selling them to Argentinian kids, mostly just trading the t-shirts for their Tom's Shoes which are too big for them anyway. Its hard to get a decent pair of Tom's these days. When I say hard I mean expensive, and I think that's partly because they have to make all these extras to give to the Argentinian kids, and they don't even want them.

#yrugivinusdeezshoes?

I think that they'd rather trade for the Ai WeiWei t-shirts because they believe in:

1. freedom of expression

2. being a "fucking G from str8 gangsta town".

3. The fact that they invented those shoes and can make them.

So, basically the GNART movement is going to have to be put on hold or hiatus; until either @Aiww gets out of mysterious jail w/o charges or those Argentinian kids stop worshipping #LeoMessi and start ®#gettingofftheirassesandmakingsomegnarlyartforthebettermentofhumanity .

(This doesn't mean the blog isn't still happening)