Station to Station promised great artists and great art — a train tricked out with video screens dashing across the country — and instead we got some third rate Burning Man rip-off abbreviated rock show with smoke and mirrors, no art, no train, and everything but our DNA stripped at the door. Based on Levi’s self-satisfaction, more brands will follow suit in making contemporary art into a carnival road show; that train has apparently already left the station. Welcome to the modern frontier — privacy is a thing of the past, corporations control culture, and there is no art to be seen.
Christian L. Frock’s conclusion to his article for KQED: Levi’s ‘Station to Station’ Derails in Oakland. (via blech)