No, it wasn't stabbed by a drunken resident of the Bowery Mission, this was a self-inflicted wound. William Powhida’s new cartoon, entitled "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality,” shows how the institution that was designed to be a showcase for new art that wouldn’t play anywhere else is instead being used as a forum for trustees to get their private collections put up. At least, that’s what Powhida thinks.
The cartoon, which can be seen here, is pretty funny, though there's a lot going on. There are numerous players from the New Museum represented with quotes, some of which are real and some are cited as coming from “My Fucking Head.” This criticism is fair, though we have to wonder if this is just an example of one artist sounding off until he is brought into the circle—or, as it would probably be called, the Banana Republic Circle of Dissenting Young Artists.
