To the dismay of survivalists everywhere, Glenn Beck announced last week that his screechy, preachy Fox news show would close up shop before the end of the year. Though Beck's eponymous television program averages over two million viewers each weekday, his ongoing disputes with Fox and widely reported tendency to scare away advertisers are rumored to have led to his exit.
As we look back on the wild ride that has been the Glenn Beck show, we are trying not to obsess too much about his manic claim that the Obama administration is a hotbed of anti-Semitism or his theory that only hookers use Planned Parenthood. For those of us here at ARTINFO, those things are simply distractions from Beck's enduring legacy as an art critic.
Like any good critic — formalist, Marxist, feminist, structuralist, and so on — Beck chooses one specific lens through which to analyze art. This unlikely but crusading art scholar has fought tirelessly to uncover the hidden communist and otherwise dangerously propagandistic messages in America's artwork — heroically oblivious to whether or not such messages actually exist. So, before Beck takes his final bow as Fox host, ARTINFO decided to take a walk down memory lane and reprise the top four moments in Beck art criticism.
1. The Great Christmas Ornament-Gate of '09, and '11
2. The Washington Monument, the Great Symbol of Race Relations
3. The Great NEA Propaganda Controversy
4. Rockefeller Center, Site of Great Communist Propaganda
If viewers are lucky, there might be more where this came from.
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