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Dutch museum finds beer can artwork in bin
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Posted on 10/08/2024 7:39:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A Dutch museum had to pick artwork out of the bin after a member of staff thought that the display, which consisted of two empty beer cans, was leftover rubbish.

All The Good Times We Spent Together by French artist Alexandre Lavet shows two dented beer cans on the floor. They were exhibited inside the museum’s lift as if left behind by construction workers.

However, a closer look "reveals that these dented cans were meticulously hand-painted with acrylics", the LAM museum in Lisse said.

But a lift technician thought the art was simply the leftovers of lazy visitors and threw them in the bin.

Once a curator spotted that the artwork was missing, staff were tasked with searching for it, the museum said on its website.

Eventually it was discovered in a bin bag and "miraculously, both cans were found intact", it said.

The cans were cleaned and placed at the museum's entrance.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: alexandrelavet; allthegoodtimes; allthewaytothebank; beercans; communistgoals; fartist; france; lisse; netherlands; onemanstrash; trash
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1 posted on 10/08/2024 7:39:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

First impressions is usually correct


2 posted on 10/08/2024 7:41:50 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: BenLurkin

Literally anyone can make this, why does something so reproducable and familiar count as art?


3 posted on 10/08/2024 7:43:03 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: BenLurkin

Well, at least I’ll bet the beer was awesome...


4 posted on 10/08/2024 7:43:21 AM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Call me crazy...

But when “art” is “disguised” as trash. And is easily mistaken for trash. And then thrown away by janitors.

You’re doing it wrong.


5 posted on 10/08/2024 7:43:26 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: BenLurkin

All The Good Times We Spent Together by French artist Alexandre Lavet shows two dented beer cans on the floor. They were exhibited inside the museum’s lift as if left behind by construction workers.


Cleaning crew interpreted it correctly.


6 posted on 10/08/2024 7:43:30 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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7 posted on 10/08/2024 7:44:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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8 posted on 10/08/2024 7:45:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like the kind of thing I could do, and if I could do it, it ain’t art.


9 posted on 10/08/2024 7:45:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

just goes to show you that one man’s trash is another man’s trash ...


10 posted on 10/08/2024 7:54:49 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: BenLurkin

they’d be better off if the lift technicians were the museum art curators ...


11 posted on 10/08/2024 7:56:02 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: PGR88

Ah yes, the banana duct-taped to the wall trick......and then somebody took the banana down and ate it. Art critic or thief?


12 posted on 10/08/2024 7:56:25 AM PDT by jimtorr
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Over ripe. YUCK! to both the art and the eating.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 7:59:39 AM PDT by mairdie (Trump (I Will Win) - Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)
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To: BenLurkin

The caption is cute. Remember, if you can, all the times you sat with a bud drinking a can together. There is meaning in that.

Much more than some can of tomato soup.


14 posted on 10/08/2024 8:02:10 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: PGR88
A blank canvas on a wall isn’t art- it’s what you call it that makes it art.
15 posted on 10/08/2024 8:02:54 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: jimtorr

I would’ve been tempted to SMASH it against the wall- name that!


16 posted on 10/08/2024 8:04:52 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: jimtorr

I would’ve been tempted to SMASH it against the wall- name that!


17 posted on 10/08/2024 8:04:52 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115
A blank canvas on a wall isn’t art- it’s what you call it that makes it art.

Nope. It's what "art experts" call it that makes it art.

18 posted on 10/08/2024 8:10:23 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala's New Way Forward = Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward)
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To: Red Badger

LOL!


19 posted on 10/08/2024 8:11:57 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala's New Way Forward = Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward)
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To: BenLurkin

360 degrees of absurdity


20 posted on 10/08/2024 8:13:48 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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