Art Department

Very clever name, trying to bring some serious art activity to Madison. Congrats.

http://www.theartdeptsite.com

Drugs are no longer cool

Another long hiatus interupted....

This article from the Guardian made my skin crawl, not to mention being about eighteen months behind on hitching a ride on the Dash Snow bandwagon. Snow and company have become the cool names to drop at your next name-dropping party, in spite of the fact that all they are known for is being the most fucked up, coke-paranoid ones wherever they go. Taking drugs to be cool stopped being effective in seventh grade. Ariel Levy, the only ones who are still enamored by these cliches-manifested, brats are the kids who weren't popular in grammar school who grew up to diarrhea out anecdotal lifestyle pieces about rich kids snapping Polaroids. When will the English learn? Pete Doherty still newsworthy too guys? McGinley might take some nice shots of naked, pale hipsters who spend their trust funds on mushrooms, but it is his voyuerism that makes the work interesting, not his participation. Look it's the funny kid with the camera in the corner who watches us do silly things. The Kids Are Alright guarantees that I will never enter the Whitney again.