Whee! This update took less than a month! I know I'm shocked. The idea for this strip came from Beth and I visiting the MoMA to see the Pixar exhibits. When I show 4 paintings that are just solid color, it's no exaggeration. Seriously, they actually put this shit up and call it art. We saw 4 paintings like that (blue, white, black, and teal), which is pathetic enough. The kicker, though, is that each one is done by a different artist. See, I could understand the first guy saying "hey, let me try this out and see if I can get away with it," but the 3 that came after him should've just been led out in front of the firing squad.
     Before we went, Meg asked Beth something along the lines of "what's wrong with the MoMA?" Well, there's really only 2 things wrong: the exhibits and the visitors.
     The exhibits are probably the most pretentious crap you'll find. Solid color paintings aside, you'll also find the wonderful half-assed work of Jackson Pollock. For those who don't know the name, he's that jack ass who just threw paint on a canvas and declared it art. You can't lean a plank of wood against a wall and call it art. You can't record yourself doing nothing in particular and call it art.
     The visitors are just as bad. We were looking at one of the early sketches from A Bug's Life that depicted a bunch of bugs staring at a light-bulb. It was made to look like something you'd find in a rural area - a simple light fixture sticking sideways out of a pole with some bugs gathering around it. Anyone who's been to a run-down gas station outside of a metropolitan area has seen a lamp post like this. Well, we got stuck listening to thest two art geeks go on and on about how, since the light bulb sticks sideways out of the pole, there's no "correct" orientation for the picture, and what that says about the state of worship and religion. WRONG. It symbolizes some fucking bugs swarming around a fucking light.
     There was also this video exhibit that was at least thought-out. It was a wall of video taped people standing in place facing forward in a large empty room. As people came in and looked at it, they stood against the wall on the opposite side of the room. Of course, I say out loud "okay, it's a wall of people, staring at a wall of people who are just staring back" and the room let out a big fucking sigh like I just told them Aeris died or something. It was kinda witty, and there was something to "get," but it was far from "deep" much less laden with the meaning that seemed to be eluding these people.
     So, yeah, save for those two problems, the MoMA is perfectly fine.