Jeffry Cudlin continues the march toward the ideal art exhibit

I am starting to feel a little bit like a half-Asian Bridget Fonda to Jeffry Cudlin's Jennifer Jason-Leigh. First there was the home invasion pictured above (and reported HERE). I hear a severed-pig's head is in my future! Next up: a gallery crawl in which Cudlin threatens his adoring public with more visual assaults: "...if you happen to be in an art gallery this Friday afternoon, you may see more of my gold-bedecked gloriousness than you've ever dreamed of. I know: I haunt your dreams." 

Jeffry Cudlin is either a mad genius, or just plain mad! He claims he will create the ideal art show that 

... plays with the notion—popular with many contemporary artists and theorists—that the chief content of art is social. If art ultimately depends on exchanges of information, capital, and power, then simply examining the agendas of people in positions of authority should tell us all we need to know about why art looks and works the way it does right now.

It's been a lot of fun playing along with his antics, but seriously, I am thrilled about this exhibition. Cudlin explores issues that so many emerging art enthusiasts ask about how you value art, how you know what you're supposed to like (and ultimately collect), and who gets to tell us so. He appears to mock the process and yet, I think the process he's devised to create the exhibit will actually result in some pretty amazing and powerful art. Genius.

Exhibition to open at Flashpoint Gallery on June 25, 6 to 8 PM. Read the press release HERE.