'The art world can handle a few jabs in the eye, but if all debut playwright (and Emmy-winning nature and travel TV host) Bill Ball’s show with Last Nerve Live offered was horseplay at art’s expense, it would drown itself out with sneering.' | mallerjour
When their brother Arthur dies, leaving behind to the world a lone splatter canvas from the heady foray into abstract expressionism that preceded his embittered art teacher years, Alex and Andy decide to right fate’s wrongs and get the—to their minds—worthless and incomprehensible painting accepted to a prestigious gallery. This turns out to be a matter of playing the eminently playable art establishment, one stooge at a time.
Instead, even if the parts that seethe with contempt for painting and its connoisseurs get a little old hat, or worse, as they pile up, the intricacy of the scam provides enough satisfaction to largely offset that. Appelbaum seems to relish each new word in every new twist of his ploy, each kited check and shill bid, on its way out of his mouth, as do we.
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