Hrag Vartanian

From Jed Perl’s scathing summation for The New Republic of Robert Rauschenberg’s legacy:

Rauschenberg’s chutzpah–the man painted, sculpted, danced, choreographed, designed sets, even composed music–opened up the possibilities that are now being mined by contemporary con-artists such as Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, and Jeff Koons. Rauschenberg didn’t poeticize the ordinary. He aggrandized the ordinary, he put a high-art style price tag on the ordinary. That could describe much of the most widely discussed work being exhibited and sold in the art world today. (source)

Amen.