Monumental wastes of time

Jonathan VanDyke, who imagines himself to be a performance artist, has created "The Long Glances," an occasion where he will stand before Jackson Pollocks's painting "Convergence" for five eight-hour days. A spokesman for the hosting Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY is quoted as saying, "VanDyke's performance is, in part, a commentary on contemporary culture and the way pervasive technology has influenced how we focus our attention."

Bullshit!

That excessively cold weather in Buffalo has apparently so frozen the brains of those displaying the Pollock, (which resembles a finger painting by a small child and his pet monkey), as to encourage a grown man to stare at the wall it covers, pretending he's creating art.

ADDITIONALLY: On the same page of pop "culture" news as the above in the Bee, it was announced that romance novelist Nora Roberts is giving $100,000 to McDaniel College in Westminster, MD to offer a minor in romance literature and start a writing course in the genre.

Literature?

The president of another virtually unknown institution said, "The college aims to raise the profile of romance novels." A full library of Roberts' more than 200 works of soft-core porn in 1-3 syllable words will be amassed.

Art is in the contemporary eye of the beholder, but nonsense is forever.