Welcome to a website that we can’t believe someone other than ourselves have created called Art or Not, where you can rank whether things are Art or are Not Art, aka, you get to take an internet poll in addressing one of the greater existential questions of the 21st century.  Genius.

This above screen shot is a particularly incredible example of “art” you can vote on on a scale from 0 to 10, 0 being Not Art, and 10 being Art.

What would you rate the above?

Is it absolutely not art because it’s literally not, and thus deserves a zero?

Or is it such a provocative statement about art itself and this website that its cunning craftery deserves a solid 10?

Or is it just “eh” art like the kind you see when local coffee shops feature the artwork of local middle school kids for the month of April, and should therefore be maybe a 3 or 4?

(via okfocus)

We already have a headache from just reading that title.

I mean, oh, hello!  And welcome to another installment of the Museum’s Art is Dead meme, showcasing how although art is obviously very alive and well (is it?), art might actually be dead.

Today we showcase a Facebook Page called, (not-)appropriately, Art is Dead that is looking to help the “artist” community of Eugene, Oregon.

Their Facebook Page description reads:

The Art is Dead Gallery was created to help promote all local artist in the area. Our vision is to bring back art and creativity to the community. The Art is Dead Gallery was created by our featured artist Richard Ryan Azar. Original art has become an endangered species, our plan is to flood the streets with quality inspirational art. If you are interested in purchasing any of our featured art or looking to become a featured artist on our page please contact us via email: ryanazar@hotmail.com, or lane55tank@yahoo.com. phone 541-852-5499

Is a Facebook Page Art Gallery an effective way of “flooding the streets with quality… art” because it uses the POWER OF SOCIAL NETWORKING (RAWWWRRR!!!) to increase awareness and understanding for the objectives of this local artist community trying to ‘make a difference’?

Or does this just add even more suck to the art community’s already overwhelming amount of suck?

Bonus question: Do you like art?

2nd bonus question: On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you think the Artifacts of Modernity Online Museum also contributes to this ‘global suck’ we described above?

Here ye, here ye!  The Artifacts of Modernity Online Museum is proud to showcase what began as one of the more disturbing acts of police brutality the #Occupy movement has seen yet and now serves as one of the fastest-sweeping memes the internet has seen since Rebecca Black.

Less and less has gone untouched by the now-famous cropped image of Lt. John Pike pepper-spraying innocent sitting protesters.

And now we’re excited to unveil the latest, and most to our Museum-esque liking, installment of the Lt. John Pike Pepper-spray Meme…  Famous Works of Art!

(via OpenCulture) 

Pepper spray students in the face on Friday, and you wake up the face of evil on Saturday. Then, the brunt of some clever jokes on Monday. Look! There’s Lieutenant John Pike popping into the famous painting, The Spirit of ’76, and macing a wounded soldier while he’s down. That’s low.

Now the symbol of French freedom, Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People. Is Pike using pepper spray? Or, on closer inspection, is that a shot of deodorant? Quel con ce mec.

Freedom from Want is part of Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms series of paintings. And guess who is ruining freedom, Thanksgiving and everything wholesome?

Oh, and of all the dinner guests, you had to spray Grandpa?  No mercy, Lt. Pike.

Edward Hopper described his painting Nighthawks as “depict(ing) loneliness and beauty in a uniquely stark yet pleasing fashion,“ but lookie Lt. John Pike taking loneliness to a new level by adding temporary blindness.  Way to ruin all the pleasing-ness for everyone.

Yes, he eventually desecrates Picasso’s anti-war mural, Guernica, too.

Bonus feature:

Bonus track number two (sorry, they’re just too good)

Watch him work the runway… hopefully the nice goodie bag makes up for it.

Bonus feature 3:

Ok last one we promise!

Now that’s true artistry.

We dare to think what gets added if even the cat & chandelier don’t sell the product enough.

Art is Dead.  Dead dead dead.

(via thedailywhat)

Coming soon to the Art of Mod Museum’s bathroom graffiti… 

Or maybe we’ll start Museum-style labeling all graffiti that we see around our preverbal town.

thedailywhat:

Bathroom Graffiti Critique of the Day: A random tag in the bathroom of an art co-op elicits precisely the sort of response you’d expect. (Embiggen.)

#ArtisDead

(Source: hipsterrunoff)

The Museum is proud to bring you this edition of designs for “an intellectual and artful departure from the world” by featuring this sketch of a “hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being.”

This is Art is Dead, literally.  Or maybe it’s a new remix to the remix that we should start curating about called “Art is Death” - whaddya think?

newsweek:

discoverynews:

Suicide by Roller Coaster

The 3-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb — nearly a third of a mile long — that lifts one up to a height of more than 1,600 feet, followed by a massive fall and seven strategically sized and placed loops. The final descent and series of loops take all of one minute. But the 10g force from the spinning loops at 223 mph in that single minute is lethal.

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The creator, Designer/Artist Julijonas Urbonas, tells Discovery he doesn’t see his suicide machine as being about death, but as “an intellectual and artful departure from the world.”

‘Cuz there’s beauty in a breakdown.

(Source: jenerous)

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are cast nude into a bronze statue that reads “Justin & Selena Forever” at the bottom.

Art is Dead.

Read more here about this actual piece of artwork by Daniel Edwards, a “sculptor” known for many other “fine” “works” about other celebrities as well.

Art is Dead.

My god!  Finally!  Art has been justified!  There is a reason for Art!  Thank god someone figured this out, otherwise we’d be left without any means to justify if there should be art on earth.

Eh.