Modern Art
Loki introduces Baldur to one of mankind’s greatest achievements: modern art. The Viking gods understand this stuff even less than your average farm worker from Iowa. Not to diss on farm workers from Iowa, but they aren’t usually eating cheese off toothpicks and sipping appletini’s on opening night while watching some guy on heroin take a dump on a sheet of distressed metal in order to problematize the relation of the body to the notion of surface in the post “post” double post modern era. Odin bless them in their glorious ignorance.
hahahahaha, brilliant (the commentary as well!!) As NYC-dweller and habitual MOMA-visitor, I still think there’s a big difference between Picasso/Pollock/Rothko/Kandinsky/etc. and the dudes crapping on metal or throwing rags in a corner. (I once saw a piece called “Three Rags: One Placed, One Dropped, One Thrown.” I was unmoved.)
Thanks, Lucy, I appreciate the comment. That’s funny about the artistic piece you mentioned. I heard there is a similar one on display at Valhalla at the moment: “Three Heads: One Severed, One Crushed, One Turned into a Drinking Mug and Teeming with Foam.” Hail NYC!
can’t pass up a deal like that i guess!