Tom Sanford continues to maintain his art world hustle. Fresh off the success of his “Mr. Hangover” exhibit, the artist displayed a collection of black ink on paper drawings featuring “Twelve Disgraced Athletes” as part of “The Main Event” group show at Schroeder Romero gallery. Sanford’s dirty dozen includes Darrel Strawberry (really it could be almost any one of the ‘86 Mets), Diego Maradona, Barry Bonds, Tanya Harding, Dante Culpepper, Patrick Ewing, Jennifer Capriati, Pete Rose, Marian Jones, Jose Canseco, Mike Tyson, and Kobe Bryant. The exhibit basically takes a look at the darker side of the sports world or as art fag speak defines it, evil incarnate: “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting…”
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