sailing with waters

I think it was interesting how he first starts of by saying that contemporary art is art that wrecks what came before it. I feel like when he refers to it this way it is like a game. Contemporary art is a game, and that game hates you. It's almost as if you never win because there is always going to be that one piece that you wont understand. There will always be that piece that you will scrunch your nose and say "huh?" and then think, "Am I missing something?"

Waters is upfront about the fact that contemporary art is supposed to make you angry, and he likes that it makes the viewer or in his case a buyer angry. I think thats might be the thing that even though seems to be true, I disagree with. What happened to making art to be apart of something larger? making art because you want to say something...something that dosnt make you cringe or whatever. sure sure, I believe in shot value but not all art has to be that. not all art has to be about, "fuck all of you." And yes I may sound like an optimist, and I'm not saying we should have sunshine puppies with rainbow eyes...dear lord no...but I'm asking, why the hell does art today always have to be about finding some clever spoof or making art out of spite?

so to sum it up:

Waters=respectable and cool for owning up to what contemporary art is

what contemporary art IS (according to waters)= thumbs down