Although this is an advertising campaign (by Team Detroit) for an actual art school (College for Creative Studies in Detroit), both factors which would normally lead me to issue an immediate red alert and raise shields… it’s funny. Somehow it hits the nail on the head in a way that a thousand academic essays have tried to but failed. Art neatly satirised as a sordid, covert, shameful and possibly immoral practice indulged in by vulnerable people who don’t know any better, eliciting understandable parental shock and dismay:
I think these ads are really funny!