The distinction between the past present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero Andy Warhol who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.