Local Arts: F for Fake?

As usual, I'm

. Christine Bailey's

New Work

show, curated by

in the lobby of 100 E. Pratt office building downtown, has already set off a variety of chatter in the Mid-Atlantic region. The

Washington Post

's Blake Gopnik finds the show

in a reported review, a piece that fueled some good discussion over at F. Lennix Campello's art blog that

from the

Post

story, and

after

Washington City Paper

's Kristen Capps

on the D.C.

CP

's City Desk blog. Other regional bloggers--

, Baltimore's Kit Pollard's

, and the

--weigh in on the show as well. Regardless on how you may feel about the show, Bailey, Ober, or any of the above writers (including this one), it's

tremendous

that people want to talk so contentiously about local art.