Posted on 05/26/2016 6:27:16 AM PDT by C19fan
A teenage prankster has fooled scores of art lovers into believing his glasses were a modern masterpiece in a hilarious stunt at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. TJ Khayatan, 17, was visiting the gallery with friends on Monday when he said he was left unimpressed by some of the modern art on display. He even described one lackluster exhibit as little more than a 'stuffed animal on a gray blanket'. '(We) questioned if this was really impressive to some of the nearby people,' he told Buzzfeed News.
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Sounds like a college short story class I took. We had to analyze the stories and if we didn’t find some bizarre sexual perversion at every level, we were wrong.
I was being asked to find things I’d never even heard of let alone had the dmented ability to contemplate. Couldn’t do it and took the poor grade.
Call m shallow, but sometimes a story is just a story.
I knew a prof in a physics dept who took a bunch of surplused microwave conduits and turned them into tree-like sculptures. He then placed them in the quad near the fine art dept building. They were out there for many days before someone figured out they weren’t an exhibit.
The absolute best way to combat idiocy is mock it. The kid did it perfectly.
“If I can do it, it ain’t art.”
I love this! LOL
My previous post was art, suckas. Pay up.
Wasn’t that what his wife did to people?
That story reminds me of the modern “art” installation that was accidentally thrown away by the cleaning lady.
http://gawker.com/cleaning-lady-throws-away-expensive-modern-art-she-mist-1527595660
The CIA funded modern art to bug the uptight commies in the cold war.
Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War - Saturday 21 October 1995
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
The wife ,YES,
IIRC,,,
“You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!”
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