Then there's the heartwarming Cancer sucks, Art Heals! project, which creates memorable experiences through art for children touched by cancer.
"You can't own an art center and say you suck at art," she laughed.
Certainly, artists over the past two centuries have criticized "blood-sucking" art dealers and the presumably philistine bourgeoisie, but these sneers have always seemed half-hearted.
Ross has made a synergistic art of sucking up to celebrities, movie studios and magazines.
On Monday, Carly Fiorina blessed us with an expert tutorial on the art of sucking up.
It is recommended to make only a very small utensil, used for sifted herb, and by sucking very slow, an art akin to yoga, maintain a low vaporizing temperature, minimizing the chance of inhaling any fumes from the metal.
The curatorial project is therefore to try to make sense of it all as the truly eccentric gets pushed to the edges and large-scale, museum-friendly art sucks up the attention.
The art sucks bad and doesn't serve the mood of the story, but I think I am smarter and have better taste than the expected reader for this series.
Why? "It's to do with consumption – if you go to an art gallery you're putting in, not just sucking up.
"If this is the state of the art, this sucks" says Ott, referring to the way most email is handled today, "But I can't kill it.
