When Mod is Outmoded

Commentary by Dana Symeon Kees:

Stealing things that don’t belong to one’s self is wrong. I hope the statue is recovered, but perhaps the thieves could just give the museum 5 million dollars and offer the big ominous piece of metal to a good sculptor who could make something nice out of it before returning it. The British once had such fine taste.

They could melt the thing publicly and pass it off as performance art. Melt a piece of modernist sculpture as performance art to protest modernist art. What a marvelous modernist protest again modernism that would be! Even more, some, while appalled, would consider it art, being torn by the loss of a modernist piece, while applauding the modernist protest against the status quo, even though the status quo is modernism itself!

Such is the state of Western civilization.