What my friends and I do on the weekends. 

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cass mccombs is the lil b of white people

folk singers are the rappers of white culture. the best ones are the ones who don't have the best voices but say the most powerful shit.

Bob Dylan = Biggie
Leonard Cohen = 2pac
Bright Eyes = Pitbull


so, where as Lil b is living the rap dream right now, making his own videos and getting exorbitant amount of twitter followers, wearing fly chains and designer jeans

Cass McCombs is doing what every white dude who can't get a job wants: to move from city to city sleeping in living rooms and campsites, getting by on his talent and not needing to sell out.

Pimp mothafuckin travellin bard Mensch

Try syncing the following albums to have a folk-rap experience (prepare yourself)

LIL B "The BasedGod" - Illusions of Grandeur with Cass McCombs - Wit's End

LIL B "The BasedGod" - Angel's Exodus with Cass McCombs - Catacombs

LIL B "The BasedGod" - Red Flame Devil Music with Cass McCombs - Dropping the Writ

LIL B "The BasedGod" - Blue Flame with Cass McCombs - PREfection

LIL B "The BasedGod" - Rain in England with Cass McCombs - A

Sometimes Gnart involves not gnarting

No it doesn't. take a lap, buddy

Artist as Athlete: MATTHEW BARNEY

There is a reality show coming out in August where Matthew Barney and Ron Artest switch jobs for a day. Yall should tell your friends.

Happy Cinco de Mayo y'all

GNART: E.M.N.A.M

GNART

REREPRESENT

GNART HERO: MONTGOMERY WILSON

"CHEERS! Here's to how fuckin' lost yall would be w/o me. MY HAUS!"

I single handedly saved this blog from going into Chapter 11; I just feel like credit is due. It was my vision and mine alone that you could take the humanistic learning from your Liberal Arts degree and turn into a HRO ripoff. I think this blog was actually supposed to be about skateboarding or something, but its pretty clear after the last few days that I'm the only one pulling his weight here in the offices of art gnar.

Check out one of my arts:

Everything There Is from Montgomery Wilson on Vimeo.

Its not gnar at all, but I can't give a fuck because I built this house.

MY HAUS!

CONTEMPORARY GNARTIST: RON MUECK

"She looks super deep in thought right? Just wait until I finish with her hair." - Ron Mueck




Ron Mueck is an Australian Hyperrealist sculptor.

"Most people are just way too small in my opinion. Sometimes I'll see some small ass fuckin' guy on the street and be like 'hey, why the fuck are you so small man?' and he'd say something like 'Oh...uh...I'm not that small.' And I'll be like 'OK GOOD; YOU'RE NOT!". -R. Mue

R. Mue also made some of the puppets in The Labyrinth

Wonder why he never made a giant hyperrealist Bowie statue. The hair situation might be too complicated for him. Its good to know your limits.

GNART HISTORY: GORDON MATTA-CLARK

Gordon Matta-Clark (June 22, 1943 – August 27, 1978)

As a child of two artists ( Anne Clark and the Chilean Surrealist painter Roberto Clark) GMC was doomed to have to be an artist. His problem was that he didn't give a fuck. His solution was that he didn't give a fuck about the achievements of humankind or architecture in general and decided to just "fuckin cut that shit in half".

"... Its just like... every time I see a building I just need to bisect the shit out of it. I feel like I have no other option." - GMC

People that are/were totally pissed about this artwork:

1. Frank Lloyd Wright

2. Le Courbousier

3. Antonio Gaudi

People totally stoked on this artwork:

1. Gallagher

2. The kid that always wished he could live with his parents but somehow be in another house

3. People who believe in the art gnar movement.

This piece also reminds me of one of the most gnar Hot Topic Anthems ever played at the ear piercing kiosk at the mall.

Let it be known:

Gordon Matta-Clark was a home wrecker, and a true Gnartist.

BANKS VIOLETTE SAVES 2011 FROM THE ABYSS OF POINTLESSNESS

"I kill zombies and I kill it in the art world; maybe I'll kill your whole family."

I'm gonna be honest right meow. I was totally going to just turn my back on GNART and consider it Left 4 Dead. Then I found out Banks Violette had signed off of Xbox Live long enough to put together a new show of #psychosexual black metal sculptures while he continues to pwn a bunch of 13 year olds on Left 4 Dead via his Xbox Live account.

Just when one might think that GNART was dead in 2011, which I seriously did, Banks Violette (avatar on the right) comes through with a health pack and a Four Loko.

Here are some sneak peaks of the show that #saved2k11:

Thanks for playing, whoever else was trying to get credit from us this year.

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)

The long take redefined for the Gnart generation

Chris Burden: The Original Gnartster

On November 19, 1971 in Santa Ana, California, Chris Burden performed a piece entitled "Shoot" in which his assistant stood 15 feet away from him and shot him in the arm. Though never fully touched upon it is largely believed that the piece was meant to invoke thoughts of the Vietnam war. I cannot think of any art made by someone who is still alive (I'll get to Bas Jan Ader) that is so gnarly.

Burden's descrpition of the piece:
"“At 7:45 P.M. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket .22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.” Why do such things? “I wanted to be taken seriously as an artist,”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2007/05/14/070514craw_artworld_schjeldahl#ixzz1K885JUnj"

Dooming your culture's historical artifacts as performance art? Ai WeiWei is a hero of the GNART

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot single handedly changes the music game and the ornithology game with one art installation. NOW THATS WHAT I CALL GNART VOL.2

David Lynch says "fuck everybody; Ima do me!" with a single glance

Matthew Barney - "Drawing Restraint #2"