Boy sticks gum on $1.5m painting

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

This made me laugh, I hate art galleries.. they are impersonal anti-art dungeons...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4767888.stm

[Yer_Maw]

yes we should take the pictures outside into the feilds and dance round them to appreciated their mastery.

Aye very good, one problem - no walls.

good kid but.

[Paddy]

how not to brighten up your day lesson one: read one of steevs posts.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Big up the sterile massive.

[Spandex]

Becky Hart, assistant curator of contemporary art at the museum, said she had tried to explain to the boy how the museum helped preserve works of art.

"I knew that probably wouldn't make any sense to him, so I asked him what kind of music he liked," Ms Hart told the Detroit Free Press.

"He said he liked rap, so I said: 'Well, you know what rock and roll is,' and he did.

"So I said: 'Can you imagine if somebody had messed up the beat in rock and roll so you didn't have any rhythm in rap.' And he looked at me, and he got it immediately."


I wish I'd had an art teacher who was so down with it and really knew what the beef was about.

[grobelaar]

Whenever I'm in an art gallery I always feel like getting up to mischief - they're so stuffy. Sometimes it's appropriate, but then other times you can be looking at this huge pile of chopped up rubbish and some curator is telling you to step behind the line - at this point I'll often want to just go running through all the rubbish kicking it all over the palce...


Like those white cubes in the tate modern at the minute, all the kids climbing all over them and loads of curators telling them to get off.

I'd make art that you can climb on... In fact why don't they just put a kids adventure playground in the turbine hall.

[Konx-om-Pax]

thats wicked.

[emef]

i liked the noble and webster art pieces that were made from rotting vegetation from their bins and general rubbish, with a light shining on them to produce various realistic silhouettes
highly amusing to see a gallery with big piles of rotting shite on the floor

[Loz]

yeah, that was really clever that, you looked at the pile, and saw nothing but rubbish, but looked at the silhouette, and saw two people holding hands.

I also like the piece entitled "Bidibidobidiboo", of the Squirrel that's had enough and shot itself, simply because it appeals to my obsurd sense of humour.

http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~joey/images/squirrel-suicide.jpg