best free stuff

Today I thought about the Lene Lovich song, "Money".
This was prompted after thinking about the ocean, a free thing easily available to Angelenos, which I saw yesterday and had forgotten about over here in dirty noisy Silver Lake.
The song goes, "The best things in life are free, but you can give them to the birds and bees..."
(I think three are several versions, but the one in my head today was being sung by Lene Lovich)

In the art world, thinking about money is some kind of bad thing.

I always hear people saying stuff like, "It's not about that". (as in, the money)

You can't win.
Someone wrote in the Comment Box that they didn't like going to galleries where the art was boring, where there were too many "sail-boat paintings in oil".

($20 painting you can buy on-line.)


("Peace - Burial at Sea" by Joseph Turner at the Tate Museum)

I guess that would apply to ocean paintings too?
It's like little these days can be inspiration, then tomorrow or yesterday we will hear inspiration is everywhere, in the every day, in trash, etc.

On that note, remember to see the work of my favorite, Rauschenberg, at MOCA.
Or check out the piece "Pepsi Fold" by Todd Squires in our current show ARTpage.
Both using discarded items tranformed.

There is nothing sadder than seeing trash floating in the ocean or bad trashy art of the ocean.
But for some reason, art made out of trash is OK.