This is the world's most expensive sculpture

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 05/09/2002 | Will Bennett

[farmfriend]

In Nevada City they built a new jail named after somebody named Wayne and paid $30,000 to have art put out front. the jail was known to the staff as Wayne's World. The art was supposed to look like mountains sticking out of the clouds but ended up looking like a bunch of phalluses sticking out of the sand. It will forever be known as Wayne's Weenie World. Good name for a jail.

[dighton]

Good night to the Session -- the sculpture:
A jelly containing a clock;
Where they say, ‘From the way that you gulped you're
Therapeutically thrilled by the shock!’
-- It's the Shock, of, alas, Recognition
At what's yearly presented as new
Since first seen at Duchamps' exhibition
‘Des Maudits’, in Nineteen-O-Two.

-- Ted Pauker, A Grouchy Good Night to the Academic Year (with acknowledgements to W.M. Praed).

[jimtorr]

Duchamp's urinal is an important piece of sculpture in the development of western art

Right. It's an important example of art going into the toilet. Other than that, I think its only importance is the price it brings.

One of the most expensive paintings ever sold consists of nothing more than a single brush stroke across an otherwise blank canvas. The artist said that it was an expression of contempt for everyone who said that his work was important.

[Semi Civil Servant]

A fierce bidding battle broke out in Christie's New York saleroom when Constantin Brancusi's Danaide went under the hammer.

Like most modern "art", this one does indeed deserve to go "under the hammer."

I think the Warner Brother's version, Marvin the Martian, is much cuter.

[Orual]

Take this Brancusi and place it in this Duchamp and leave them on the curb for the trash collector.