ART AND THE BOUNCY BANKER: We Are A Banana Republic—More or Less What I've Been Trying to Say All Along

The Bruxist Collective's take on Art and (as Alfred Jarry might put it) P'finance.

A numerically dyslexic artist (and reluctant consumer) shares his dearth of financial wisdom and resulting frustrations with his Bank Manager. Read personal letters from the elusive Art to his even more elusive Bank Manager. See a comic rendition of a Day In The Life Of The Bouncy Banker. Art struggles to make sense of the senseless as the Authorities of Finance wobble but never quite fall down. Full of hot air they float above it all! When they bounce it is with impunity! Why are there no Remorseful Bankers? Can Art and Finance ever coexist? Do you have a Blue Chip on your shoulder?

When bankers get together they talk about Art. When artists get together they talk about money. Oscar Wilde

Monday, November 8, 2010

We Are A Banana Republic—More or Less What I've Been Trying to Say All Along

Stefan Sagmeister's 7,200 bananas originally displayed @ Deitch in NYC, January 31, 2008 -- February 23, 2008

I have not been adding to this blog of late because now everybody is seeing it (The Horror) and saying it (The Greed) so much more efficiently than I do. Here Nicholas Kristof puts it nicely (click on link above) and there is also a link here to an excellent series on inequality by Timothy Noah of Slate.
Need I add that banks are evil?

There is a wonderful thread of comments regarding Sagmeister's use of bananas in his art work.
Perhaps artists are evil to.