A great deal of art has been pitiful for a long time.

Putting a Christian cross in a jar of urine and showing in a gallery ain't my idea of art.

Neither is laying out gallery desplay so that all visitors must step on an American flag to get through.

Sticking bullwhip up someone's ass and taking a closeup photograph is rubbish.

Taking a box full of tiny chicks (no, not the Dixie kind), setting them on the stage during a rock consert is also cruel, but flipping the mike stand upside down so the audience can hear you stomp on them, smashing them to death one at a time. When did that become art?