Dear Onion, will you please have my baby?

Here is their latest brilliance, “City Opens Art Jail“:

Most visitors to the art jail on Tuesday said they were grateful for the opportunity to see the prisoners, though some acknowledged the experience was emotionally complicated for them.

“My dad’s been in places like this ever since I can remember,” said Jim Rothko, standing outside the Abstract Expressionist cell block. “I always try to come by and see him from time to time, but it’s hard. Deep down, though, I have to admit this is where he belongs.”

Nailed it.

h/t Nick Riggle

Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic.

One reply on “Onion: City Opens Art Jail”

  1. I liked The Onion’s article too, so much so that I wrote a short blog post about it here: http://desigonzalez.tumblr.com/post/7874009836/the-art-jail

    To summarize one of the points, I’m fascinated by the article because it reveals a lot about (institutional and otherwise) attitudes toward art. The article suggests that art is trapped inside museums, separated from civilians. Why don’t release art and allow it to intermingle in every day lives, rather than let the myth of art and artists grow bigger by branding them different, just as we do with prisoners in maximum-security prisons? 

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