[bpjam]

Actually, the artist and I have the exact same opinion. Art galleries will pay any price for crap. And too frequently the taxpayers have to put up the money for this crap. At least this time, nobody can argue with me about that point.

[SteveMcKing]

At least 45 of the original 90 cans have exploded, however. This is exactly what Manzoni intended. Soon after he created the cans he told a friend "I hope these cans explode in the vitrines of the collectors."

The man was a genius.

Though there is something almost Randian about this story, and the final act calls the museum to be burned one night in a horrible fascist act of angry-mob terrorism....