[ noun ] merchandise that is shoddy or inferior <noun.artifact>
"I don't care what you put me on," he says in the interview. "I've done more schlock sports than anybody.
Artists have complained that the "schlock art" is mass-produced, often in an assembly-line type process, in the Far East, and sold here as "original."
The 15-year director of the Whitney Museum of American Art has been fired amid complaints about his leadership, a proposed expansion project and exhibitions a scholar derided as contemporary schlock.