吉姆·肖是那种罕见的艺术家类型,艺术圈中的局外人,因为他通俗的艺术形式掩盖了他致敬现代艺术的初衷,这有点像迈克·凯利(肖和他一起组建了那支颇具影响力的艺术朋克乐队“让一切魔鬼见鬼去吧”)和保罗·麦卡锡,当波普和美国产物褪去光鲜的外表,变得愈加不堪一击,倒被杰夫·昆斯之流充分利用其短占尽先机之时,他们却变得炙手可热起来。肖代表的是波普主义、妄想症、怪异,更重要的是美国郊外文化,而这并不能让他成为引领全球文化的使者。很可惜,他原本拥抱的“不那么具有普世价值、 Jim Shaw is the rare type of artist, an outsider in the art scene, whose popular art form masks his original purpose of paying tribute to modern art, a bit like Mike Kelly (Shaw and he formed the influential Art Punk Band ”Let All Devil Hell Go“) and Paul McCarthy, as Pope and American products have faded their looks, becoming increasingly vulnerable, and being taken advantage of by Jeff Koons Short-term take the lead when they have become hot. Shaw represented Popperism, delusional disorder, weirdness, and more importantly, the culture of the suburbs of the United States, which did not make him an ambassador for global culture. Unfortunately, he originally embraced ”not so universal value,