David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Own a piece of Borat (art)
Fresh from his pseudo-triumph at the MTV Movie Awards, Borat (or at least a guy eager to profit off of his popularity) is entering the world of, to use a term that may not wholly apply, fine art. A Canadian artist, Oli Goldsmith, has launched “999 Borats,” “an experimental project in pop-art idiocy,” in which he hopes to create 999 portraits of everyone’s favorite fictitious Kazakhstani. And you can buy an original for a mere Benjamin Franklin.
The works – the first 125 are now available, meaning Goldsmith’ll be finished about the time the “Borat” DVD hits the remainder bin – range from fairly artful silk screens to childish scrawls that parents would think twice about before affixing to their refrigerator door. But the opportunity to be a part of some renegade performance art at prices cheaper than those Banksy is cadging these days – plus, for the noxiously prurient amongst us, a whole lot of them feature Borat in that celebrated green thong – should prove nigh irresistible to the art patron/U S & A booster in each of us.