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Is Art Shit?Fake Bird CallsLouise Lawler, Birdcalls (1972–81)All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-09-1423 minIs Art Shit?A Year of Your Life You'll Never Get BackTehching Hsieh, One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece) (1980–81)All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-09-0725 minIs Art Shit?My Photograph of Your Photograph is Better Than Your PhotographSherrie Levine, After Walker Evans (1981)All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-08-3123 minIs Art Shit?Get Off Your SoapboxAndy Warhol, Brillo Boxes (1964). Episode 9 of "Is Art Shit".This piece is something that a lot of people may already be familiar with. It's a bit more mainstream than some of the...art... they normally discuss. However, as Sean states in the episode - In the moment, someone wrote in the gallery book after seeing Brillo Boxes the following..."SHIT"All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-08-2425 minIs Art Shit?The BiggestSteven Rhall, The Biggest Aboriginal Artwork in Metro Melbourne (2016).This piece has even more significant resonance after the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum. Let's see what the Seans have to say about it...All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-08-1716 minIs Art Shit?HouseRachel Whiteread, House (1993)All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-08-1017 minIs Art Shit?A Fart In The DesertRobert Barry, Inert Gas Series/Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon/From a Measured Volume to Indefinite Expansion (1969) - Basically, A Fart In The Desert.Both Seans love Robert Barry. "He's prolific - in that he does less and less and less in terms of actually creating art..."Is Art Shit? Let's see what Sean has to say...All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-08-0327 minIs Art Shit?Rooms Full of NothingRooms Full of Nothing - AKA Voids, A Retrospective, Pompidou Centre, Paris (2009)Sean described it as "The Stadium Rock Super Group Festival of Contentless Work". The absence of art is the art. You can understand why the other Sean gets pretty riled up in this episode.Is Art Shit? Let's see what Sean has to say...All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-07-2718 minIs Art Shit?Literal ShitPiero Manzoni, Artist's Shit (1961).Art doesn't get any more shit than this. Literally.Sean has his work cut out this week to convince Sean that shit is not shit.All music composed, performed and produced by The Ghosts of Nothing, courtesy The Ghosts of Nothing and Perfect Pitch Publishing. 2024-07-2122 minIs Art Shit?White PaintingsRobert Rauschenberg, White Paintings (1951) might just be the 'OG' of art in the category of ‘If I can do it, it can't be art’. Pretty much proving Sean's point, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art says the following about Robert Rauschenberg, White Paintings (1951) (emphasis added) – “Considered shocking and even characterized as a cheap swindle when they were first exhibited publicly in 1953, the White Paintings have gradually secured a place in art history as important precursors of Minimalism and Conceptualism”.Is this art shit? Let’s see what Sean has...2024-07-1427 minIs Art Shit?BananaIs Art Shit?Have you ever found yourself in a gallery, staring at a work of art, and thought, "This is so $hit that even I could do it" or "How did the artist get away with this?" Sean has felt this way many times. His friend Sean, an artist and academic deeply involved in the art world, however, sees things differently.One day, after visiting a contemporary art museum, Sean texted Sean: “Went to the MCA today. Didn’t understand a f&*%^ing thing. Thought of you.” Later, over beers, Sean tried to exp...2024-07-0717 minIs Art Shit?1000 Hours of StaringHave you ever found yourself in a gallery, staring at a work of art, and thought, "This is so $hit that even I could do it" or "How did the artist get away with this?" Sean has felt this way many times. His friend Sean, an artist and academic deeply involved in the art world, however, sees things differently. One day, after visiting a contemporary art museum, Sean texted Sean: “Went to the MCA today. Didn’t understand a f&*%^ing thing. Thought of you.” Later, over beers, Sean tried to explain why the art...2024-06-2932 min