Tag: Abdi
Next Great Artist 10: Abdi’s Mom is a hundred thousand dollars richer
Posted August 13th, 2010
It’s over and done with and Abdi, as the “Next Great Artist,” will exhibit his work at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The check for $100,000.00, he says, will go to his mother. In ten years, however, or ten months or ten days, will anyone remember? Will anyone care? Just prior to the final show,…
Next Great Artist 4: Not Much Shock and No Awe At All
Posted July 2nd, 2010
Shock takes center stage in this episode of Work of Art—or at least it was supposed to. The celebrity du moment was Andres Serrano whose Piss Christ, a large-scale photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine, sent various members of the religious right and United States Congress into an absolute tizzy in 1989 and remains…
