Ads As Art

Colin Marshall watches the above commercial by Wes Anderson and wonders:

The word "integrity," I realize, tends to be reserved specifically for artists who don’t do commercials. But if Anderson’s unwavering respect for his own fascinations and aesthetic impulses in every project he works on doesn’t count as integrity, what does?

Richard Brody argues that selling products is "neither more nor less problematic than considering something made to sell tickets as art":

What matters isn’t the forum in which the work is made. So many great paintings were made for popes and kings and patrons, and great buildings sponsored by tycoons and corporations. What matters is the sense that a person is morally invested and engaged in the object at hand to the fullest extent of his or her ability, his or her being.