Morley Safer is back on the art beat, and although he doesn't like much of what he sees at Miami's Art Basel, there's no denying that sales are strong.
@@nsr5961 no, usually the one who gets the big cash is the art fair organizer/auction house. Because they keep a huge percentage of the final price... the artists still put their pieces there because they know is almost 100% probably that someone would purchase it^^
it’s kind of dumb how everyone is hating on the art and the amount that people pay for it. contemporary art is, by design, made to be off putting to the vast majority of people. it’s no secret that most people don’t get it or dislike it. it wouldn’t be worth anyone’s time to make art that is completely acceptable and non controversial.
That’s it. What if it’s someone’s calling to make white paintings. I get YOU might hate them but if someone is genuinely listening to a calling within themselves to do such a thing, it must serve a purpose and it must be for somebody. There is a rationale and a genuine real purpose for inspiration and passion.
These art dealers have all the slimy charm of used car salesmen. Larry Gagosian didn't even have the good manners to stand when he was speaking with Morley Safer. The Contemporary art world is not run by gentlemen aesthetes - the atmosphere at these shows is undignified and banal.
You know what'd be a great contemporary art piece? Adopt an entire Middle Eastern village, make it look like a New York City market complete with water, food, and shelter.
Why don't you ask the guys at the non-profit organization, Spirit Of America: spiritofamerica.org/, b/c they've been doing it successfully for over a decade now.
I agree, if the average person can create it, it shouldnt be called art. Im an artist and i get mad when i see stuff i could make when i was seven and seemed to be slapped together, and it sells for alot more than my artwork that took me days to draw...
Please believe me when I say I know where you are coming from and totally agree that SOME of this art really is bunk. And like you, I feel cheated by modern contemporary art at times. With that being said, I am an abstract painter and will say it is the easiest of art to do, but the hardest of all to execute well. Not all of it can be done by children. The really good stuff always makes it to the top right beside the bunk.
Morley is brave for taking on the dealers. I feel the same way he does. Our local city museum has some of this "modern art" in it and I just walk right by completely ignoring it. Thanks.
I believe another showman said "There's a sucker born every minute" {take full advantage of ignorant curiosity}...brackets added. A sucker will believe the seller who tells them "This is art..."
"A group of Dutch RUclips jokers took a £7 print from IKEA and placed it in the Museum for Modern Art in Arnhem. The team from LifeHuntersTV placed the cheap canvas on display in the Museum for Modern Art in Arnhem, and asked art lovers for an appraisal. They told visitors the painting was done by famous Swedish artist 'IKE Andrews', and, according to the pranksters, all of the nearly 20 people interviewed bought the lie."
I was walking through Boston this fall when I noticed they were tearing up the sidewalk near the Fleet Center (or what we used to call the Fleet Center). In a roped off section of the side walk I saw a pile of wooden squares and rectangles. Upon closer inspect, I figured out these were forms placed around man hole covers and utility access grates to make sure they weren't paved over when fresh concrete for the sidewalk was poured. What struck me is each form had been stenciled "This is not Art." I can't help but think doing this passed up on a possible windfall...
+U.N.I.C.O cool you should. because if thats what it takes to deflate your drive, you should do something else. art making on that level is really hard.
I think the idea of something being judged and valued for how "hard" it is should only apply to sports and labor. That idea is far outdated. The old ass Jackson Pollock-esque argument-"I could do that" is never followed up by anyone who actually "does" do it. IF they did-they would realize quickly the ART in making something look easy requires a great deal of skill and experience. Send a link to your drawings and then lets talk. You and your opinions require no skill. And I mean it-quit now. Don't clog the stream. Don't try to make it. Don't fucking bother. There are too many people who have been pated on the head by friends who say "that's cool!" like a broken record. You might even save yourself money on student loans. Everyone is NOT AN ARTIST. That idea has been commodified and it is the biggest lie on the planet. Art evolves-and the art at these art fairs represents only part of the "art world" (horrible phrase but that's what it is) Said fairs have went to shit because people with money have null brains and stupid ideas about art too. Look at Jeff Koons-art shit that is made at a high skill level-and it implies that is has some deep meaning and intellect behind it (i.e. it's confusing). SO when the rich cokehead piece of shit buys it-in their mind they are buying the intellect-so then in turn they POSSESS the intellect. And that is something you cannot buy. Either is SKILL or TASTE. But you can drop lame comments on youtube. So do yourself a favor-stop hating and understand this-ART IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. Whoever told you that was full of shit. Just like COOKING is not for everyone. FOOD is-but think about how much fucking food there is in the world and what SMALL amount you eat (cuisine-I mean cuisine, i.e. thai ,african, laos etc) The same applies for art. There is tons of art to see and much you will know and understand-like fucking Starry Night by Van Gogh. But there is so much you WILL NOT understand unless you are an ARTIST. Its a career with lots to know and at no point does every fucking person need to know every fucking idea and theory and blah blah blah. No-but you can find out. But first you have to stop shitting on things you don't take the time to understand. I know I am right. I am an old hat in all this shit. Go google yourself....
But you are really fucking good at drawing so don't fucking listen to me. Fuck what other people say. Go for it. If I would have listened to someone like me I would have been miserable. That was some Mr. Miyaga shit. Go out there and make bank.
I just love this art that Morley Safer is reporting on. But some years ago he reported on this artist name Thornton Dial. Safer criticize this artists work so bad that he almost destroyed the guy, only because he couldn't express his self very well and had little or no education. But his art was beautiful. I hated Safer for a long time after that, but I got over it. Thornton works could stand beside all the great artists of his time and in the past. He is consider and outside artist. (WOW)
Most artist funciton as social critics, only a few reveal. The artmarket is miniscule btw., there is more money going around in bags with fancy patterns.
In the past, you had to go through a kind of college of art. They all had to be masters before going on to modern art. I agree that some of it is pretty ridiculous. To me it has to serve some kind of purpose like evoking a sort of emotion when you look at it. Modern art like Pollock it looked like a mess but there was symmetry to the mess. When you paint you fill in the negative spaces on the canvass, so that there is a balance between the negative and positive space. Obonoxious artists give art a bad rap, there's enough bad stuff going on irritating people day by day. Its all been photographed, sketched, molded…what can you do? There are 4 types of artist…masters, technical, craftsmen, and other.
+Kelly oxo Pollock, DeKooning, Krasner, Rothko etc etc were not masters before they "entered" modern art. They became modern art to be specific. And Pollock painted in some way or form with one of the New Deal enterprises. Painting murals. Which he wasn't good at.
I just want to thank CBSNews personally for exposing the fraud of Modern Art. As an Artist devoted to traditional creations of master paintings drawings and sculpture I feel I have been cheated by modern contemporary Art. And I want to *bow* to the people that are brave enough to say the Emperor has no clothes even if it might mean being called a traitor to "Good Taste". Thank you for speaking the truth and showing that modern Art is just junk that a child of 9 can do a better job at.
I wouldn't call it mindless, but it is definitely a scam. More importantly, I think it's a sign of the times we're living in. With the world at your fingertips, I think we've reached the point where people can be artists and rockstars in a heartbeat without ever actually learning the trade. I think we're placing more importance on the product rather then the effort, which makes the art a product rather then fine art. It's heartbreaking for those of us who can spend months on a single piece.
Not only that. The artist of the work she bought, Gerhard Richter, hates rich people owning his work. He has said many times that he wants his work in museums for the public rather than for the 1%
Watch this video and tell me that mass psychosis, no matter your race, sexual orientation, gender, political affiliation, religious beliefs, etc., doesn’t exist. We are so vulnerable each and every day to this stuff.
you look around and you see people making art today. but wheres the mastery? when was the last time you saw something strikingly beautiful. something that makes you want to cry. some artists only care about the money. shit green and bright orange.
I've seen things...you wouldnt believe, beautiful paintings, that make me breathe heavily just from looking at them. You will never feel that in a place like this, full of thick rich people who don't even know what an emotion is.
Don’t believe in this. Don’t fall for the illusion. Don’t be “everybody has a price.” SUPPORT LOCAL ARTISTS. Not just posters but original art in your communities.
A contemporary artist's response to, "Ugh, I could do that!" is always, "Ah, but you didn't!" This usually only serves to infuriate people further, and "art speak" certainly doesn't help. ;)
@Fortescue Yes, it's the point, hence my saying it. But art speak is still insufferable when you're talking about a vacuum cleaner in a box selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
+Nick Davis You don't have to purchase art to have the sensibility that today's contemporary art is horrible. I'm not saying all of it is bad, but most of it is. Is there really meaning behind some of these pieces of so called "art"? Tell me how floating tools, a rusty van overloaded with bananas, and a canvas with multiple shades of blue is considered "art".
His point is still valid, this is not art. It's business, and looks suspiciously like money laundering. Calling it art is insulting for real artists.
Money is NOT a defining measure of quality.
Define real artists, please.
@@hereandnow990 quality is not a defining measure of art
Morley just stand there with a "you can't be serious" face. Priceless.
Meh. One note Morley. But I share his skepticism.
ruclips.net/video/Uz8XPggGZEs/видео.html
InstaBlaster...
0:54
actually billionares use the art community as a tax haven to avoid taxes
Dethblade4 wait so if the art sells for millions of dollars, does that mean the artists are rich?
@@nsr5961 no, usually the one who gets the big cash is the art fair organizer/auction house. Because they keep a huge percentage of the final price... the artists still put their pieces there because they know is almost 100% probably that someone would purchase it^^
It's almost 100% probably that someone would purchase it because of the reputation of the seller...
it’s kind of dumb how everyone is hating on the art and the amount that people pay for it. contemporary art is, by design, made to be off putting to the vast majority of people. it’s no secret that most people don’t get it or dislike it. it wouldn’t be worth anyone’s time to make art that is completely acceptable and non controversial.
Never quit doing what your heart and spirit asks of you, regardless of what sells or does not.
That’s it. What if it’s someone’s calling to make white paintings. I get YOU might hate them but if someone is genuinely listening to a calling within themselves to do such a thing, it must serve a purpose and it must be for somebody. There is a rationale and a genuine real purpose for inspiration and passion.
No joke. How I laughed and....oh how I cried! The $33,000 for dangling, tangled extension cords is particularly funny!
These art dealers have all the slimy charm of used car salesmen. Larry Gagosian didn't even have the good manners to stand when he was speaking with Morley Safer. The Contemporary art world is not run by gentlemen aesthetes - the atmosphere at these shows is undignified and banal.
I agree, well said.
'I COULD DO THAT' + YEAH, BUT YOU DID'NT = CONTEMPORARY ART
I did it much better
Caesar there is no “better”
I did not do it because it is junk.
I don't do this because it will downgrade me as an artist, just as my entire personality.
Im a plumber ... ive done tap instulations thousands of time ... i must be a genius
You know what'd be a great contemporary art piece? Adopt an entire Middle Eastern village, make it look like a New York City market complete with water, food, and shelter.
If only.....
Why don't you ask the guys at the non-profit organization, Spirit Of America: spiritofamerica.org/, b/c they've been doing it successfully for over a decade now.
R.I.P. Morley
WAR against fake "contemporary" art . It is a question of life or death for REAL artists .
I love it when he took on the art critics and modern artists. They deserve as much ridicule as possible.
Selfish, intellectually dense and elitist souls lost amidst a perversity of nonsense.
Exceptionally well-said.
Bravo.
A really brilliant commentary, thank you. It still rings true in 2019, of course.
Wealthy buyers aren’t watching this … those who are need to - ought to- support local artists.
"This is all Theater"
R.I.P., Morley Safer.
Morley I miss you
I need my own Art Gallery here in Jamaica soon. I will revolutionize art in Jamaica and the Caribbean.
Let me know when it's open.
I will
I agree, if the average person can create it, it shouldnt be called art. Im an artist and i get mad when i see stuff i could make when i was seven and seemed to be slapped together, and it sells for alot more than my artwork that took me days to draw...
Artspeak is one of my favorite things in the world
As long as nobody points out, the emperor is not naked.
The more you seek to understand yourself the more you'll understand the purpose of contemporary art.
Some of these stuff are not bad ... but MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THEM ?
No, thank you.
8:25 a masterclass in bullshitting lol
Please believe me when I say I know where you are coming from and totally agree that SOME of this art really is bunk. And like you, I feel cheated by modern contemporary art at times. With that being said, I am an abstract painter and will say it is the easiest of art to do, but the hardest of all to execute well. Not all of it can be done by children. The really good stuff always makes it to the top right beside the bunk.
The easiest to do but the hardest to execute. Take a moment to relook what you just said right there.
even the art salesman knows its a scam
Morley is one of my favorites for this and his previous piece alone.
A few pieces there I truly liked, but the prices are just laughably ridiculous.
What do you think about this art?
Www.cesarstrawart.com
8:31 hooooly shit!
Pika - “Something sad and unstable.” only thing unstable is the woman talking.
Success is a balance between Art and Commerce
Morley is brave for taking on the dealers. I feel the same way he does. Our local city museum has some of this "modern art" in it and I just walk right by completely ignoring it. Thanks.
Old Masters are going cheap, stock up.....
they are not really visually appealing to me
@@markwillykellermann5519 What about William Bougerau?
My only question is: What do I have to do to get my art shown there? My art is DELIGHTFUL! They' LOVE it!
The emperor has no clothes.
at 8:45 - 8:50... I feel you Morley!!
I believe another showman said "There's a sucker born every minute" {take full advantage of ignorant curiosity}...brackets added. A sucker will believe the seller who tells them "This is art..."
A sucker will believe the critic who says "This is not art.". It works both ways. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Cacophony noun a harsh discordant mixture of sounds
did that women say she detected sadness in a pile of tangled extension cords? LOL
Nick Mougros yep it’s the feelings it conveyed.
Sickening.
Do people still not understand that when the stock market goes down tangibles go up?
This contemporary art stuff seems mostly like the cheap"made in china"-consumerproducts of the art world.
Jajajajaja. You'r rigth dude"
"A group of Dutch RUclips jokers took a £7 print from IKEA and placed it in the Museum for Modern Art in Arnhem.
The team from LifeHuntersTV placed the cheap canvas on display in the Museum for Modern Art in Arnhem, and asked art lovers for an appraisal. They told visitors the painting was done by famous Swedish artist 'IKE Andrews', and, according to the pranksters, all of the nearly 20 people interviewed bought the lie."
I'm with Morley. This stuff is junk.
+Voiceprint 101 you are a moron and uncivilized slob for saying something like this.
Morley is right tho ...and there is nothing you can do about it
what do you think of my work in miami www.deviantart.com/danielmarquezart/gallery/ i still cant get into art basel
Some of these people have more money than sense. feed the homeless, help the needy.
I agree with you on that because i respect works by Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollack.
Its worth what people are prepared to pay for it. I like some of the pieces, they are decorative, isn't that the main purpose of art.
I love this because I learned the word "peripatetic." I hate this because I learned the word "peripatetic" in the context of extension cords.
I was walking through Boston this fall when I noticed they were tearing up the sidewalk near the Fleet Center (or what we used to call the Fleet Center).
In a roped off section of the side walk I saw a pile of wooden squares and rectangles. Upon closer inspect, I figured out these were forms placed around man hole covers and utility access grates to make sure they weren't paved over when fresh concrete for the sidewalk was poured.
What struck me is each form had been stenciled "This is not Art."
I can't help but think doing this passed up on a possible windfall...
all the 'art' that didn't sell at that art show, they threw in the dumpster out back, after it ended. no lemmings or suckers to buy it.
Stuff like this makes me want to quit drawing.
+U.N.I.C.O cool you should. because if thats what it takes to deflate your drive, you should do something else. art making on that level is really hard.
***** Hard? Please. Most of this "art" requires no skill whatsoever.
I think the idea of something being judged and valued for how "hard" it is should only apply to sports and labor. That idea is far outdated. The old ass Jackson Pollock-esque argument-"I could do that" is never followed up by anyone who actually "does" do it. IF they did-they would realize quickly the ART in making something look easy requires a great deal of skill and experience. Send a link to your drawings and then lets talk. You and your opinions require no skill. And I mean it-quit now. Don't clog the stream. Don't try to make it. Don't fucking bother. There are too many people who have been pated on the head by friends who say "that's cool!" like a broken record. You might even save yourself money on student loans. Everyone is NOT AN ARTIST. That idea has been commodified and it is the biggest lie on the planet. Art evolves-and the art at these art fairs represents only part of the "art world" (horrible phrase but that's what it is) Said fairs have went to shit because people with money have null brains and stupid ideas about art too. Look at Jeff Koons-art shit that is made at a high skill level-and it implies that is has some deep meaning and intellect behind it (i.e. it's confusing). SO when the rich cokehead piece of shit buys it-in their mind they are buying the intellect-so then in turn they POSSESS the intellect. And that is something you cannot buy. Either is SKILL or TASTE. But you can drop lame comments on youtube. So do yourself a favor-stop hating and understand this-ART IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. Whoever told you that was full of shit. Just like COOKING is not for everyone. FOOD is-but think about how much fucking food there is in the world and what SMALL amount you eat (cuisine-I mean cuisine, i.e. thai ,african, laos etc) The same applies for art. There is tons of art to see and much you will know and understand-like fucking Starry Night by Van Gogh. But there is so much you WILL NOT understand unless you are an ARTIST. Its a career with lots to know and at no point does every fucking person need to know every fucking idea and theory and blah blah blah. No-but you can find out. But first you have to stop shitting on things you don't take the time to understand. I know I am right. I am an old hat in all this shit. Go google yourself....
But you are really fucking good at drawing so don't fucking listen to me. Fuck what other people say. Go for it. If I would have listened to someone like me I would have been miserable. That was some Mr. Miyaga shit. Go out there and make bank.
hippywolf ruclips.net/video/NSdbASDdwU4/видео.html
Amazing! Love the art.
money laundry set the income trend in art
If the average person can create it, it shouldn't be considered art.
How can I participate this events?
I just love this art that Morley Safer is reporting on. But some years ago he reported on this artist name Thornton Dial. Safer criticize this artists work so bad that he almost destroyed the guy, only because he couldn't express his self very well and had little or no education. But his art was beautiful. I hated Safer for a long time after that, but I got over it. Thornton works could stand beside all the great artists of his time and in the past. He is consider and outside artist. (WOW)
There are people in this world who just have too much money
Rats Rat Rat where is my million dollars
theres a sucker born every minute. never truer!
seria posible que tradujeran al español?.
Morely, your face at 8:45 says it all! RIP!
super art
IT'S CALLED MONEY LAUNDERING.
Most artist funciton as social critics, only a few reveal. The artmarket is miniscule btw., there is more money going around in bags with fancy patterns.
@12:51 Marina Abramovic
If it takes you longer to "explain" the "art" than it did for the "artist" to create it, it isn't art.
dailyartfair.com/exhibition/8290/pablo-helguera-galerie-gabrielle-maubrie
It's a shit tornado.
In the past, you had to go through a kind of college of art. They all had to be masters before going on to modern art. I agree that some of it is pretty ridiculous. To me it has to serve some kind of purpose like evoking a sort of emotion when you look at it. Modern art like Pollock it looked like a mess but there was symmetry to the mess. When you paint you fill in the negative spaces on the canvass, so that there is a balance between the negative and positive space. Obonoxious artists give art a bad rap, there's enough bad stuff going on irritating people day by day. Its all been photographed, sketched, molded…what can you do? There are 4 types of artist…masters, technical, craftsmen, and other.
+Kelly oxo Pollock, DeKooning, Krasner, Rothko etc etc were not masters before they "entered" modern art. They became modern art to be specific. And Pollock painted in some way or form with one of the New Deal enterprises.
Painting murals. Which he wasn't good at.
I just want to thank CBSNews personally for exposing the fraud of Modern Art. As an Artist devoted to traditional creations of master paintings drawings and sculpture I feel I have been cheated by modern contemporary Art. And I want to *bow* to the people that are brave enough to say the Emperor has no clothes even if it might mean being called a traitor to "Good Taste". Thank you for speaking the truth and showing that modern Art is just junk that a child of 9 can do a better job at.
Morley's voice is totally burned out from decades of cigarette smoking. You can hear the thick mucous.
I wouldn't call it mindless, but it is definitely a scam. More importantly, I think it's a sign of the times we're living in. With the world at your fingertips, I think we've reached the point where people can be artists and rockstars in a heartbeat without ever actually learning the trade. I think we're placing more importance on the product rather then the effort, which makes the art a product rather then fine art. It's heartbreaking for those of us who can spend months on a single piece.
4:17
DOES SOMEBODY KNOW ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ART/ARTIST BEHIND THOSE
Gerhard Richter. Paintings done in the 80s.
@@really2345 thanks, just googled him, he has made some good art.
Hold my beer.
This is just depressing.
if you want to sell your soul to the commercial interest of the super rich, this is it
And this is why I put "Perfect For Art Snobs" on all of my pieces. They just don't fucking get it.
RetARTed
Why doesn't that Russian give some of those billions to the starving people in her country instead?
Not only that. The artist of the work she bought, Gerhard Richter, hates rich people owning his work. He has said many times that he wants his work in museums for the public rather than for the 1%
Watch this video and tell me that mass psychosis, no matter your race, sexual orientation, gender, political affiliation, religious beliefs, etc., doesn’t exist. We are so vulnerable each and every day to this stuff.
Today Commemorates Morley Safer's 85th Birthday
you look around and you see people making art today. but wheres the mastery? when was the last time you saw something strikingly beautiful. something that makes you want to cry. some artists only care about the money. shit green and bright orange.
I've seen things...you wouldnt believe, beautiful paintings, that make me breathe heavily just from looking at them. You will never feel that in a place like this, full of thick rich people who don't even know what an emotion is.
***** nice!
+MrCool Mug
All those...moments...will be lost in time. Like, tears.....in...rain.
Oneronaut-3
My comment was cringey reading it back.
lol i thought it cool. haha
People with too much money with nothing better to spend it on.
Don’t believe in this. Don’t fall for the illusion. Don’t be “everybody has a price.”
SUPPORT LOCAL ARTISTS.
Not just posters but original art in your communities.
Wife: Thinking to herself while looking at husband. I told you that was a dumb buy!
😢
Everyone can do those entangled extension cord installation junk-art, even a kid can do that!
A contemporary artist's response to, "Ugh, I could do that!" is always, "Ah, but you didn't!"
This usually only serves to infuriate people further, and "art speak" certainly doesn't help. ;)
@Fortescue Yes, it's the point, hence my saying it. But art speak is still insufferable when you're talking about a vacuum cleaner in a box selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
2:00 exhibition and exhibitionist lol
Regards Pokrak -compmaturism
Is it good art or bad art? That’s the real question.
Art speak, the descriptive language of contemporary art can seem as opaque as spilled alphabet soup '' hahaha genius ! ♥
Bury it in the backyard and forget about it... because they know it was never art in the first place.
Art, shmart. If it pleases your eye, buy it.
I some how think the dealers like money a lot
Would love for 60 minutes to do another production on how Covid 19 has affected this seemingly untouchable market.
someone give me a ridiculous idea and i will give it a go
A lot of that so-called art is just plain silly sh1t, and I love art.
Egos displaying ego.
@ 8:30 - "NO" -
“Highly Controversial”
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all these negative comments. I'd bet my last dollar none of these fools have ever purchased art.
+Nick Davis You don't have to purchase art to have the sensibility that today's contemporary art is horrible. I'm not saying all of it is bad, but most of it is. Is there really meaning behind some of these pieces of so called "art"? Tell me how floating tools, a rusty van overloaded with bananas, and a canvas with multiple shades of blue is considered "art".
Yeah, because we're not idiots who would pay an exorbitant amount of money for "art"
It's because people with common sense don't spend their money on a canvas painted white
Finally someone said it.
Thank you.
Great piece on contemporary "art".
Pharrell Williams!
The points raised are interesting but I hate it when old people act all old.