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HEH: Obama?s Weekly Video Addresses Becoming Increasingly Avant-Garde. ?The president?s work has g?

By Glenn Reynolds

HEH: Obama’s Weekly Video Addresses Becoming Increasingly Avant-Garde. “The president’s work has grown more abstract and drawn mixed reviews. Citizens reacted favorably to the absurdist slapstick of Reshaping Wall $treet, which features a man in a pig mask rooting through a garbage pail filled with currency, but were less satisfied with (S)Mother Earth, in which Americans ranging in age from 6 months to 90 years are submerged in oil and found guilty by a clown-faced judge for their role in the recent BP oil spill. . . . Nonetheless, a number of critics have embraced Obama’s edgier productions. Artforum magazine referred to Obama’s oeuvre as ‘a winking indictment of the institution of the presidency from none other than the president himself,’ and cited in particular his wildlife conservation video Meat Play as ‘the direction the office needs to go in if the executive branch is to remain relevant.’”

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