The HAHA "Art" Of Richard Macdonald

Richard Macdonald is a sculptor. He sculpts French-harlequin-punch&judy-clown-parasol-dance-ballet-trapeze-fuckers. His statues are all perferctly sculpted. But they are nowhere near close to being anything artistic. He is like the Thomas Kinkade of sculptors. He has a sales tent inside the Bellaggio that you have to pass through to see O. O is one of those Cirque du Soleil acrobatic shows. Even if French crap turns your stomach you cannot accuse the Cirque du Soleil people of being lazy and making a half hearted effort. It's a hundred percent all the time in every category. Think of them as you might think of the Nazis: they were revolting but they were revolting in a magnificent way. I think that is a good way of putting it and certainly a different way of putting it than probably anyone else has ever put it. So you can't tag me with being lazy either. Richard Macdonald's banal, ghastly, pompous-ass carnival tent that you have to pass through to get to the O arena features exclusively his "art" of the french show's performers, or at least their shapes, doing whatever it is they do. acrobatic shit. The surfaces of the human shapes is kind of flakey. It ain't smooth. This is supposed to be "artistic" to do this. But it's really just kind of ugly. It makes the people look like lizards. Which would be okay if they were in lizard costumes. There is also a video playing of him rushing about looking at the acrobats assuming their difficult positions and Dick scampering all around his twigs with clay around them - his minatures that i guess he later enlarges - and he has to do all this quickly before the acrobat gets tired. So not only does he sculpt really perfect crap: he does it really fast!!! For this of course you pay a premium. The perfection of the crap and the speed with which it is produced. If you are duplicating exactly what a human is doing you are not making art. You are making something else. I am tempted to say that you are making furniture but that is not exactly correct. Let me think. You are making...well crap!! I can't think of another word that would really work. Now I ain't tryin' ta be insulting to the fucker. I just want to instruct you that while he and his agents call what he does art, if you are thinking of paying untold thousands of dollars for his contorted depictions of the double-jointed, even though they are going to hammer into your head that what you just HAHA bought is art, it ain't. It's something else. I call it crap, but it might be bookends. I don't know. But I do know it ain't art. And I'm just here to help. And to fuck with Obama of course.