Where I live, ugly art is about all we ever see. There's even an Ugly Sweatshirt shop in the city which I most often visit. Just in case you don't get it from its lumpen, discoloured, and blotched apearance, there is an 'Ugly Sweatshirt' logo emblazened in large lettering on the front, so that people will be sure to know just how avant-garde you are.
The Vancouver Art Gallery is currently hosting an exhibit of the most famous producer of ugly art in history:
https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exh ... tions.html
... whose work, it must be said, shows considerably more talent than the typical installation of broken pieces of rock and brick or canvas splattered with cans of paint thrown in its general direction which art critics became so fond of as time went on and ugly art went from merely ugly to something you'd expect to see in a garbage dump or toilet bowl. Picasso did know how to draw and paint. He just wanted to show that he could do something different and played the market. "Serious" art is now all political (the whole point is for someone to be able to write a disertation to explain what it means) and ugly, possibly tp prove, as 'Spengler' once reminded us, that the beautiful is not the good.
The proposed new art gallery distinguishes itself by being as ugly as the art usually exhibited in it:
https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/future.html
And now another gallery has opened, one that appears to want to show that it can out-ugly anyone in town, or at least match the Tate Gallery in London, where the photograph, called ''Upside-down Water Torture Chamber, Harry Houdini, 1913', which adorns the cover of the latest issue of BC BookWorld was borrowed from:
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lee ... 913-l02686
![Image](https://image.isu.pub/160602195935-c402b6224c8613beff81f7eecf01da2a/jpg/page_1_thumb_large.jpg)
In a hasty retreat, and before it was supplied to its largest distributors, this publication re-printed this issue with a different cover entirely. I suspect they had protests from the B.C.'s large Asian community, or perhaps people like me who agree that, like most "modern" art, it is as tasteless as it is devoid of displaying any talent. Notice that the book this fellow is holding really is upside down. BC BookWorld doesn't just promote art; it is also western Canada's foremost literary journal and aims to promotes reading.