The apocalypse has been realized as pseudo art (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia") and as spoof ("This Is the End," in which people get sucked up into the sky while Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel shop at a convenience store).
Brian Sewell, the Evening Standard 's reigning reactionary, identified what he called "the Serota tendency," which was to support any form of what Sewell considered pseudo art (conceptual, video, performance, installation) at the expense of traditional painting and sculpture.
"It's like going to a museum but without the usual restrictions: I can slurp my Frappaccino, it's free, nobody tells me to move along, and I don't have to listen to pseudo art critics pretending they know all about the artist's intent".
In that regard, this show continues to disappoint because there is still too much mediocrity and kitsch, too much painting superficially imitating outmoded styles, too much sentimental illustration, too many tchotchkes, too much pseudo-Africanism, pseudo-folk art and pseudo-primitivism.
What is there to those empty spin paintings, enlarged versions of the pseudo-art made in funfairs?
The Yankees and their fans deserve a better facility than a banal modern ballpark wrapped in a pseudo-Art Deco perimeter wall.
The production by Dale Duesing, a prominent American baritone who has turned to stage direction, updates the drama by setting it in a pseudo-Art Deco hotel (sets by Boris Kudlicka) called L' oile, as proclaimed by a neon sign.
After Ms. Wilson, the most prominent Mercer acolyte was Andrea Marcovicci, whose unfortunate song choice, "Did You Cross Over to Sneden's?," written for Mercer by Alec Wilder, is an arch pseudo-art song that has aged poorly.
Some opponents of the project, led by a Colorado group called Rags Over the Arkansas River, have scathingly dismissed Christo's vision — in general and in detail — as pompous pseudo-art.
The late Robert Hughes wrote witheringly in the Guardian before Hirst's £111m 2008 auction of his works at Sotheby's: "What is there to those empty spin paintings, enlarged versions of the pseudo-art made in funfairs?" Noakes's "patent picture painter" was a little more challenging than many things Blue Peter has encouraged children to make down the decades.
"I am deeply outraged by a prank of a Gdansk Fine Arts Academy student whose pseudo-art desecrated the memory of 600,000 Soviet soldiers who died in the fight for Poland's freedom and independence," wrote Alexander Alekseev, the Russian envoy.
