Response to Switcheroo

After listening to the interview piece with Ira Glass, Etgar Keret and Cindy Sherman, I wonder how many artists would enjoy the fact that someone was impersonating them.  Although if one stops to think this through, Cindy Sherman's art is an impersonation.  She, in fact, uses herself, dressed and posed as her medium of art expression, or impersonation of how she sees that particular character or portrayal.  When she is asked by Ira Glass how she really feels about someone at her exhibition impersonating her, her answer was a bit surprising.  She thought it was GREAT and said she would encourage the person to do it again!  One certainly has to be comfortable with their own art and identity to respond in such a manner.  Ira concludes that there are times when such impersonations are truly harmless, while other times such acts are literally criminal and just plain wrong.  In this case, there was a happy ending with no harm, no foul.  That's art!