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Ryan Teague Beckwith
July 24, 2012 – 5:16 p.m.

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President Barack Obama speaks during the 2012 State of the Union address. To buy this photo, go to: http://roll.cl/cqrcpix

AP: “President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will reduce rather than increase the nation’s huge federal deficits over the next decade, Congress’ nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting Obama’s contention in a major election-year dispute with Republicans.”

Roll Call: “It may be wishful thinking, but Republican Senators predict a President Mitt Romney and a Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would usher in a new era of productivity for their famously sclerotic chamber.”

Washington Post: “Months of political squabbling last summer between the White House and Congress over how to spend and save trillions of dollars cost taxpayers at least $1.3 billion, according to a new report. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said Monday that the $1.3 billion in costs came as the result of increased borrowing costs for the Treasury Department.”

crackup at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles—with glitz-blitz director Jeffrey Deitch on the ropes and famous artists resigning from the board as fast as you can say John-Baldessari-Barbara-Kruger-Ed-Ruscha—is a fascination. The fascination has nothing to do with what Deitch has actually done. His decision to mount shows dedicated to graffiti and disco and to encourage the resignation of Paul Schimmel, a widely respected curator, are exactly what I would have expected from Deitch, who only two years ago was operating Deitch Projects in New York, a commercial gallery that featured skateboard culture and a methamphetamine lab. What is fascinating about the MOCA mess is how many people are saying: “Enough!” I would not have predicted that kind of reaction, for the simple reason that all Deitch has been doing is what a lot of other people in the contemporary museum world have been doing. He just executes the same moves with a slightly sharper attack. Could it be that we have arrived at a moment of truth?

Let’s leave aside all the gory details of the MOCA story. Too much has been written about MOCA’s perilous financial state, the influence of art mogul Eli Broad, and Deitch’s particular odyssey from financial advisor to art dealer to museum director. Museums are always in need of money, the super rich are always throwing their weight around, and changing one’s professional hat, as Deitch has done, is not a sin. MOCA, Deitch, and Broad are part of a much larger catastrophe, a catastrophe that began in the last years of the last century, when Thomas Krens mounted a show at the Guggenheim in New York called “The Art of the Motorcycle.” Krens filled the ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright’s great rotunda with motorcycles, and mused at the press preview that he might or might not ride his own bike up the ramp. Don’t get me wrong. Motorcycles are beautiful. But “The Art of the Motorcycle” was not really about motorcycles. Krens was telling the world that all cultural institutions are pop culture institutions. He was a populist demagogue with an Upper East Side pulpit. He was preaching to the Wall Street types who were hankering for some cultural glamour, telling them it didn’t matter if they didn’t know or care what distinguished a Mondrian from a Kandinsky. Krens has been swept aside. But his message—make it dumb and then make it dumber—has been resonating around the world, from the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern to the Jeff Koons show on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Takashi Murakami retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum to Jeffrey Deitch’s tenure at MOCA. The question is not pop culture versus high culture. We live in a world where there are many opportunities to experience pop culture and many fewer opportunities to experience painting and sculpture. In a wealthy society—and recession or no, this remains a wealthy society—why can’t there be a place dedicated to Mondrian, Kandinsky, Rothko, and Pollock? Is that such a sin?

Deitch may have overplayed his hand. That sometimes happens when an egotist runs amok in a museum with a weak institutional culture. In the end, however, Deitch is no more than a symptom, one of the malign forces that emerged from the Pandora’s Box that Rauschenberg opened when he announced that he wanted to work in the gap between art and life. For years now, people who ought to have known better have been trying to make the best of what amounts to a compromise position. The museum has not been redefined so much as it has been disassembled, its coherence shattered as curators, administrators, and trustees grapple with the insoluble problem of operating in that nowhereland between art and life. Everything becomes the justification for everything else. The presence in the museum of Koons and Murakami is justified by relating their work to a taste for popular culture that goes back to such rock solid modern classics as Manet and Picasso. But Koons and Murakami—to the extent that they’ve learned most of what they know from Kmart and comic books—are also used to ratify Manet and Picasso, to give works that some believe are in danger of appearing superannuated a little street cred. And once you’ve embraced Kmart and comic books, why not Deitch’s shows dedicated to skateboards and graffiti? Of course I’m simplifying here. But there comes a time when we need to cut through the high falutin’ intellectual mind games that were featured in “High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture,” the landmark 1990 show at the Museum of Modern Art. Sometimes life is life and art is art. Why must everything always be mixed up? Why must it always be high and low?

Why is there such embarrassment about believing in high culture, not as one side of an equation but as an equation in and of itself? (Why, for that matter, is there such embarrassment about loving popular culture on its own terms? I do.) When Deitch’s MOCA appointment was originally announced, anybody who dared to raise a question was dismissed as an old fart. Now, two years later, the old farts turn out to include such undeniably hip (albeit older) artists as John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, and Ed Ruscha. Let me make myself perfectly clear. I do not like Baldessari’s and Kruger’s work at all, and I don’t like Ruscha’s much better. But their resignations from the board of MOCA are a fascination. Although I cannot speak for these artists, I think I know where they’re coming from. Baldessari, Kruger, and Ruscha are all, in their different ways, connoisseurs of pop culture and pop experience. But they are students of pop life who filter those experiences through ideas about form, space, sign, and symbol that are the purview of visual artists, not of the culture at large. What they now find themselves confronting is a man at the helm of MOCA who does not care about form or space or sign or symbol, at least not in the way that anybody who really cares about art does. The people who wanted to believe that “The Art of the Motorcycle” was just the thing for the Guggenheim spoke of the motorcycles as beautiful forms, beautiful symbols. And so they are. But the form of a motorcycle is not the form of a Mondrian. And although the world has room for both kinds of form, they do not necessarily belong in the same place. I remember thinking that fourteen years ago, on my way home from the press preview for “The Art of the Motorcycle.” Apparently a lot of people are thinking similar thoughts right now in Los Angeles. More power to them.

Congressional candidate Martha Zoller, locked in a tough GOP primary with state Rep. Doug Collins in Georgia’s new 9th district, today picked up the endorsement of Sarah Palin, Zoller’s campaign said.
Zoller, a conservative talk radio host, has positioned herself as the insurgent candidate against Collins, who is close with Gov. Nathan Deal (R) and the Atlanta GOP establishment. Both candidates are very conservative.
“Martha is running against the establishment, which, as we know, is an uphill battle; but with all of our support she can win. In Congress, she’ll vote to cut spending, lower taxes, and repeal Obamacare,” Palin said in a statement released by the Zoller campaign. “I hope you’ll join me and other conservatives like Sean Hannity and Mark Levin in supporting Martha Zoller for Congress!”
Zoller had an absurdly low $7,873 in cash on hand on July 11 while Collins had $60,000 in the bank. Still, unaligned Republicans in the state see the primary race as close, with either candidate having a shot at victory.
Roll Call rates the 9th, one of the most Republican in the country, as Safe Republican. The winner of the July 31 primary will almost certainly be coming to Congress next January.

Businessman Wil Cardon on Tuesday politely dismissed the ability of Republican Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain to influence voters in his Senate GOP primary battle with Rep. Jeff Flake.
Kyl and McCain endorsed Flake earlier this month, a move Cardon described as expected.
“I have respect for the service of Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain, but they’re part of the old guard,” he said.
Kyl, whose retirement created this open-seat race, is appearing in a television ad alongside Flake. The spot began airing this week. McCain has called the Cardon campaign “disturbing” and said he worried that Cardon’s attacks “might make it harder in the general election for us to elect Jeff Flake to the United States Senate.”
Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona is the presumptive Democratic nominee. Roll Call rates this race as Leans Republican.
IN 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with a coalition that was impressive in its range: Young people loved him, African Americans overwhelmingly supported him, and he was a hit with college graduates. But he also picked up votes in key states from working-class whites—a group he’d struggled to win over in the Democratic primaries. Four years later, that coalition isn’t looking so good. Obama remains popular with minorities and college-educated whites, but enthusiasm among white working-class voters has collapsed. Obama is embattled in upper Midwestern states that he carried by 10 points or more four years ago, like Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan. And in some places—Indiana, Missouri, and Montana—the campaign has simply given up.

But there’s one battleground state where Obama is doing surprisingly well: North Carolina. On the surface, Obama has no business competing in the Tar Heel state: He won it by just 14,177 votes in 2008. Yet his campaign is pouring major resources into the race, and the polls show that he and Mitt Romney are still neck and neck.

There’s a simple demographic explanation. Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina was different from his wins in other toss-up states, because it was less dependent on the white working class. In North Carolina, 50 percent of his supporters were minorities and only 27 percent were whites without a college degree. That makes his coalition in North Carolina more resilient than his support in other swing states. And it explains why Obama has conceded Indiana—which he won by a wider margin, but where 51 percent of his supporters were working-class whites—yet is still fighting hard in North Carolina.
Of course, with such a tenuous win in 2008, even minor losses among any group could cost him the state. But North Carolina is changing in ways that may work in Obama’s favor. Northern professionals continue to flock to the Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte metropolitan areas, reshaping the state’s politics just as the D.C. suburbs transformed Virginia. The state’s booming Latino population and its younger voters also represent untapped reservoirs of potential support. If Obama can pick up votes from these quarters, he may be able to overcome modest losses among working-class whites. One thing is for certain: North Carolina’s distinctive demographics ensure the race will come down to the wire.
Ada penjelasan demografi sederhana. 2.008 kemenangan Obama di North Carolina berbeda dengan menang di lain melemparkan-up negara, karena itu kurang tergantung pada kelas pekerja kulit putih. Di North Carolina, 50 persen pendukungnya adalah minoritas dan hanya 27 persen kulit putih tanpa gelar sarjana. Yang membuat koalisinya di North Carolina lebih tangguh daripada dukungan di negara-negara ayunan lainnya. Dan itu menjelaskan mengapa Obama telah mengakui Indiana-yang ia menang dengan margin yang lebih luas, tetapi di mana 51 persen dari pendukungnya adalah kelas pekerja kulit putih-namun masih berjuang keras di North Carolina.
Tentu saja, dengan seperti kemenangan lemah pada tahun 2008, bahkan kerugian kecil di antara setiap kelompok bisa biaya nya negara. Tapi North Carolina berubah dengan cara yang dapat bekerja dalam mendukung Obama. Profesional Utara terus berduyun-duyun ke Raleigh-Durham dan metropolitan Charlotte daerah, membentuk kembali politik negara seperti pinggiran DC berubah Virginia. Populasi booming Latino negara dan pemilih yang lebih muda juga merupakan waduk belum dimanfaatkan potensi dukungan. Jika Obama dapat mengambil suara dari bagian-bagian kota, ia mungkin dapat mengatasi kerugian moderat di kalangan kelas pekerja kulit putih. Satu hal yang pasti: demografi khas North Carolina memastikan balapan akan turun ke kawat.