[thecommabandit]

That's TOTALLY artful, man. What I really want to see when I go to an art gallery is some cute little fluffy things mutilated by cars and further butchered by your hands.

Modern 'artists' really need to learn there is a line between art and societal statements, and it is exceedingly difficult to successfully be in both places at once. Art is meant to be pleasant and enjoyable to look at and consider, societal statements make you think. Conceptual art is usually good at using both, but often people just label their meaningless finger-painting as conceptual in an attempt to sound deep and to sell the stuff for more. This trend is in some ways much more disturbing than anything else happening to the human race; we are cannibalizing and devaluing one of our greatest inventions for the individual's ego and self-importance.