
The Fine Arts
Synopsis
In The Fine Arts, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby mock their own lack of inspiration: a woman confesses that she’s speaking French in the nude because she has no good ideas but admits that her solution is unoriginal. "I hate the fine arts, I am disgusted by the fine arts, because, um, the fine arts are always made with artifice."
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