From "Piss Christ" to "Shit", Andres Serrano is still producing crap.

Honestly, what more can anyone say about an artist who believes that "God" told him to photograph feces? Yeah, that was my impression too. I'm not a fan of art whose sole purpose is to shock any more than I am of an art establishment that promotes garbage of such baseless value to the level of "high art".

Andres Serrano has made a career out of doing anything necessary to garner attention to himself and his ludicrously stupid "art". The ridiculous aspect of his latest stupidity is that this idea is nothing new.  He is but one artist in a very long line of hacks who have turned to their excretory paint in order to get noticed. The real question is ... Why is he getting recognition for this crap? Pun intended.

It would be one thing if he was poking fun at the art establishment for taking this garbage seriously.  But, he actually believes he is creating something worthwhile and, amazingly, on the same level as, say, Michelangelo.

Serrano says he thinks he was born to do this work. "I just sawBatman—Ledger is a true anarchist. I would say that I'm one of them, too—a true anarchist doesn't give a fuck. I'm very lucky that I create work that finds collectors. I think this is great work—it's not only beautiful, it's unprecedented."

Sorry Andres, it's not. "Shit" is as derivative as art exhibits come. Piero Manzoni would definitely beg to differ with Serrano. In fact, the shit Manzoni canned back in 1961 is now exploding all over the floor of the Tate Gallery in London. Sam Goodman, Boris Lurie, George Maciunas, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, Gilbert & George, Dieter Rot, Tony Tasset, Rosemarie Trockel and Paul McCarthy, among many others, can all lay claim to producing shit long before Serrano communed with god.

"My ego as an artist says I can make anything look good, even shit. The show is also very basic—in a way, what I'm saying is that we all think we have the best shit. If you want to see some real shit, check out my shit!" he says, beaming. "I got the best shit in town."

I've got a headache.

In case you all have forgotten, Serrano is the fellow who made the famous Piss Christ in 1989, which featured a crucifix drowning in urine. His latest colonic effort, photos of 66 different piles of dookie crapped by as many animals, blown up to eight feet high can be seen hanging on the walls of the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York.