So an artist sent his sculpture of a laughing head off to the Royal Academy in London for display. Somehow the sculpture got separated from its base, and the curators thought they had received two separate pieces. They rejected the actual sculpture, but decided to display the piece's plain rectangular pedestal, thinking it was worthy of display in their fine institution.
There's an urban legend about a visitor to the Tate Museum in London who lost his wallet on opening weekend. Realizing his error, he went back to the museum to find a crowd gathered around his wallet on the ground, admiring it as if it were some artist's creation. When he tried to pick it up, a guard chastised him for touching the exhibit. I don't know if it's true or not, but it's a good story.
If anything can be art, art doesn't mean anything.
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another story from the tate modern, which actually is true (it happened while i was at cambridge): one of the installation art peices was a room with some generic trash on the floor, so one night a janitor cleaned it all up - thinking it was just trash. ha!
i still like most modern and contemporary art though, despite the fact that there are some super lame and pretentious people in the art scene today.
oh boo, the link isn't woking...
Fixed the link. Blogger is lame.
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