12/11: Modern art prize

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From Yahoo most popular, and the caption: "Martin Creed who won this year's Turner Prize of 20,000 pounds ($28,600) stands in front of his winning exhibit which consists of flashing lightbulbs in an empty room, at the Tate Britain art gallery in London, December 9, 2001. U.S. pop star Madonna presented one of the world's most famous art prizes to conceptual artist Martin Creed for his controversial creation 'Bare Room with a Light that Switches on and off'."

It's not fair, but all I can think is: "The emperor is naked."

And I'll grant almost anything as art. I ws the kid who took "Aesthetic Rebels of the 60s and 70s" in college because it was a hard-liner approach to recent art history. And this has as much claim to being art as any Hollywood film. Or early Madonna albums. But come on, there has to be a limit somewhere.