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		<title>Morley Safer Is Coming After the Art World Again on ‘60 Minutes&#8217;</title>

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<p>The last time that journalist Morley Safer filmed a segment for the CBS newsmagazine <em>60 Minutes</em> about the contemporary art world, back in 1993, Marc Glimcher, president of the Pace Gallery, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/04/arts/art-world-is-not-amused-by-critique.html">declared that it</a> "stank of anti-intellectualism." Mr. Safer had quipped that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/04/arts/art-world-is-not-amused-by-critique.html">much of today's art</a> was "worthless junk," among other bon mots. It was quite a takedown.</p>
<p>Now Mr. Safer is returning for a sequel on <em>60 Minutes</em>, which will air on Sunday. Yes, on April Fools' Day.<!--more--></p>
<p>"I was accused of being a philistine, someone lacking the aesthetic sensibility to appreciate these masterworks," Mr. Safer declares in a <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403688n">short preview</a> of the episode, as he examines art at the 2011 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. (Fair enough, but he looks really happy posing under that whimsical Erwin Wurm sculpture of a huge police cap!)</p>
<p>Jeffrey Deitch, director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, makes an appearance in the preview. (We <a href="http://www.galleristny.com/2011/11/art-critic-morley-safer-roams-art-basel-miami-beach-with-jeffrey-deitch/">spotted him walking with Mr. Safer at Miami Basel</a>.) "It was almost a send-up of the contemporary art market," Mr. Deitch tells the television journalist with a big smile, of that old episode, and adds that Jeff Koons, whose work was selling for around $250,000 in 1993, has now had pieces go for $25 million auction.</p>
<p>No doubt Mr. Safer will attempt to rile some people on Sunday. Nevertheless, we're looking forward to it. When was the last time you saw a Sarah Braman sculpture on network television? You can on Sunday. Plus, you can see Tim Blum and no doubt a bevy of other luminaries. Let's end with some words of wisdom on Mr. Safer's original art-world satire <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tsohLMz4NHIC&amp;pg=PA109&amp;lpg=PA109&amp;dq=%22the+world+portrayed+in+Morley+Safer's+essay+on+60+Minutes%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=1X4bH5Vnlt&amp;sig=sjyFJMFa6yCAi2VUlAkU-VSCKpM&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=4bl1T_KZJJKO8wSgh9CSBA&amp;ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22the%20world%20portrayed%20in%20Morley%20Safer's%20essay%20on%2060%20Minutes%22&amp;f=false">from the critic David Hickey</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"It was wrong-headed, ignorant, and ill-informed about art, as well, but if these afflictions disqualified folks from commentary, more than half the art community itself would be stricken mute. So I was cool with Safer's jibes. It's a free country and all like that, and who the hell watches <em>60 Minutes</em>, anyway, unless they're stranded in a motel out by the highway in the middle of America?"</p></blockquote>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_16328" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 610px"><a href="http://nyogalleristny.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/safer-e1333116762338.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-16328" title="safer" src="http://nyogalleristny.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/safer-e1333116762338.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Messrs. Safer and Deitch at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2011. (Photo by Andrew Russeth)</p></div></p>
<p>The last time that journalist Morley Safer filmed a segment for the CBS newsmagazine <em>60 Minutes</em> about the contemporary art world, back in 1993, Marc Glimcher, president of the Pace Gallery, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/04/arts/art-world-is-not-amused-by-critique.html">declared that it</a> "stank of anti-intellectualism." Mr. Safer had quipped that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/04/arts/art-world-is-not-amused-by-critique.html">much of today's art</a> was "worthless junk," among other bon mots. It was quite a takedown.</p>
<p>Now Mr. Safer is returning for a sequel on <em>60 Minutes</em>, which will air on Sunday. Yes, on April Fools' Day.<!--more--></p>
<p>"I was accused of being a philistine, someone lacking the aesthetic sensibility to appreciate these masterworks," Mr. Safer declares in a <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403688n">short preview</a> of the episode, as he examines art at the 2011 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. (Fair enough, but he looks really happy posing under that whimsical Erwin Wurm sculpture of a huge police cap!)</p>
<p>Jeffrey Deitch, director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, makes an appearance in the preview. (We <a href="http://www.galleristny.com/2011/11/art-critic-morley-safer-roams-art-basel-miami-beach-with-jeffrey-deitch/">spotted him walking with Mr. Safer at Miami Basel</a>.) "It was almost a send-up of the contemporary art market," Mr. Deitch tells the television journalist with a big smile, of that old episode, and adds that Jeff Koons, whose work was selling for around $250,000 in 1993, has now had pieces go for $25 million auction.</p>
<p>No doubt Mr. Safer will attempt to rile some people on Sunday. Nevertheless, we're looking forward to it. When was the last time you saw a Sarah Braman sculpture on network television? You can on Sunday. Plus, you can see Tim Blum and no doubt a bevy of other luminaries. Let's end with some words of wisdom on Mr. Safer's original art-world satire <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tsohLMz4NHIC&amp;pg=PA109&amp;lpg=PA109&amp;dq=%22the+world+portrayed+in+Morley+Safer's+essay+on+60+Minutes%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=1X4bH5Vnlt&amp;sig=sjyFJMFa6yCAi2VUlAkU-VSCKpM&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=4bl1T_KZJJKO8wSgh9CSBA&amp;ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22the%20world%20portrayed%20in%20Morley%20Safer's%20essay%20on%2060%20Minutes%22&amp;f=false">from the critic David Hickey</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"It was wrong-headed, ignorant, and ill-informed about art, as well, but if these afflictions disqualified folks from commentary, more than half the art community itself would be stricken mute. So I was cool with Safer's jibes. It's a free country and all like that, and who the hell watches <em>60 Minutes</em>, anyway, unless they're stranded in a motel out by the highway in the middle of America?"</p></blockquote>
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