Current Events > I don't get contemporary art

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Went to look at some pieces...at the end there was the exit and another door that led to an open walled off area. I looked around and saw that there was a stack of bikes in one corner, a stroller in the middle, a grandfather clock at the far end and a few pictures hung on the walls.

I had been pushing our stroller around and was kinda over it (wife was holding the kid) so I thought "Oh a nice place to put this while we look at the funny paintings".

So I asked the guy if its a storage place and he said it was an exhibit to highlight the various ways in which our institutions oppress minorities. I guess the bikes and the strollers were from a police auction....the clock I'm still not sure of. And the pictures hanging were social security cards. I appreciated the guys passion for explaining it, but man.

I wish we could go back to making things that are pretty :( the romantics had it all wrong!

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