a joke

Question: Why did the Conceptual artist start painting?
Answer: Because he heard it was a good idea.

“One of us made that up 30 years ago. It was really funny then.”
David Salle

I read this on the subway the other day and could not stop giggling…


Linda Yablonsky, “Photo Play: The Story of the Pictures Generation,” Art in America, April 2009: no.4