(OT) Ah yes, "culture"...

[Lord Gow, rogue bull of the 333!]

Would have loved to have heard some comments.

http://tinyurl.com/47yfc

Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top Museums
Mar 24, 2:57 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many a visitor to New York's Museum of Modern Art has
probably thought, "I could do that."
A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step
further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a
wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before
anybody noticed.
The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York's
top museums on a single day.
The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot
by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which
the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and anti-war graffiti
in the background.
The other two targets were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American
Museum of Natural History, where he hung a glass-encased beetle with fighter
jet wings and missiles attached to its body -- another comment on war,
Banksy told Reuters on Thursday.
"It was just an outsider's view of the modern American bug, bristling with
listening devices and military hardware," he said.

(full story at link)

LG
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[Ominous Man]

modern art is a joke.. i could get a kitten and drops its feet in paint
and have it walk on canvas and leave there too

[GregoryD]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:59:13 -0800, Ominous Man wrote:

> modern art is a joke.. i could get a kitten and drops its feet in paint
> and have it walk on canvas and leave there too

Hell, you could nail a kitten to a wall and call it art.

GregoryD

[the Bede]

"GregoryD" <ha...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.03.26....@hotmail.com...

don't bring Pickles into this.

[Rockboy]

GregoryD wrote:

>>modern art is a joke.. i could get a kitten and drops its feet in paint
>>and have it walk on canvas and leave there too
>
> Hell, you could nail a kitten to a wall and call it art.

In fact, I insist that you do.

--
Rockboy
We've brought someone in to shut you up
It's a life's work

[David E. Powell]

The funny thing with art from the Middle ages, into the rennaissance,
into the modern, is like "OK, from here to here it gets better, and
from here.. it starts getting worse.."