Art is in more than eye of the beholder

Miami Herald ^ | 10/6/02 | Dave Barry

[Slings and Arrows]

Today we have an important art news update from England, or Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, or whatever they're calling it these days.

As you may recall, the last time we checked in on the British art community, it had awarded a major art prize, plus 20,000 pounds (about $30,000) to an artist named Martin Creed, for a work titled The Lights Going On and Off. It consisted of a vacant room in which the lights went on and off.

[Slings and Arrows]

Does this mean that eating a burrito makes me an artist?

FReegards,
Slings and Arrows

[Drango]

Does this mean that eating a burrito makes me an artist?

It's what comes out the other end that makes you an artist.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The only viable thought left to Western Civilization being economics and perhaps technology. This type of nonsense merely evidences the truth of the aforementioned theory.

[Paul Atreides]

There is no art anymore, except what is being done by people who would never get government funding.