Morley Safer Still Hates Contemporary Art, Reminds World With Another Eye-Rolling 60 Minutes Segment
Now that Andy Rooney has gone to that big grumpy chamber in the sky, Morley Safer has taken over the role of irascible clean-up hitter for the doddering team of Bad News Bears that is 60 Minutes.
In the final minutes of yesterday’s show, timed appropriately to coincide with April Fool’s Day, Safer filed a follow-up to an infamous 1993 segment in which he poked fun at the world of contemporary art, rolling his eyes at the work of everyone from Cy Twombly and Robert Ryman to Jean-Michel Basquiat (“heaven-sent for hype”), as well as a bright-eyed up and comer named Jeff Koons.
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