[r9etb]

The "artist" could probably replace it with a bottle of yellow liquid, symbolizing man's pollution of the universe.

[Graybeard58]

He should give it back, the only way possible.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Good thing this didn't happen at the Andres Serrano exhibit. ;)

[stevio]

Those crazy Brits. That's a good one.

[Bogey78O]

Wonder how it tasted...

The guy could just get tap water in there and no ne would know.

[wideawake]

That polar ice is supposed to be very tasty, refreshing water when melted. I hope he enjoyed himself.

[InvisibleChurch]

only a british artiste would use the word plinth .... anyway, good for the thirsty art-goer

[EggsAckley]

This is hysterically funny. I love it.

[Minn]

The irony that his work could have been mistaken for trash, possibly even by the staff, seems to escape the artist.

[End Times Sentinel]

Water from an iceberg in Antarctica, that sounds pretty delicious.  Fella prolly couldn't help himself.

 

I have no idea what a "plinth" is.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[LRS]

PLINTH (WATER DOWN THE DRAIN)

[Zacs Mom]

I just wish someone could take just such a realistic approach to this "piece of art ...their words, not mine.... currently on exhibit in the California Department of Justice cafeteria:

[rhema]

Hill said: "It was designed to look like an ordinary object, like an ordinary bottle of water, but it was clearly marked out as an exhibit. "If you put something in a frame or on a plinth people usually recognise it's a piece of art and treat it with respect."

Maybe they wouldn't commit the unspeakable sacrilege of drinking it, but they'll be happy to disdain it for the tendentious piece of [fill in the appropriate noun] it is.

[Sam Cree]

"A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall police said: "We are looking at the possibility someone drank the water without knowing it was a piece of art. Or it could have been thrown away by a member of staff who didn't recognise what it was."

That about sums it up. There ought to be more to art than just trying to be clever. Trying to be cute, maybe.

Art ping. Let me know if you'd like on or off the list.

[Rembrandt_fan]

A few months ago in Europe--Germany I think--the cleaning crew cleaned up an exhibit by mistake, since the art on display was a pile of litter.

I don't mind artists wrestling with the concept of art as idea, and like some of Duchamp's work along those lines, but think postmodernists have run the notion into the ground. Time to move on to something more original, I think. I know: how about a performance piece of two naked men wallowing in excrement? Oh, wait, that's been done, too.

[sine_nomine]

One confidential source claims that Karl Rove did it.

[Larry Lucido]

Didn't Fry once drink the emperor of a planet in Futurama?

[longtermmemmory]

I think the notion that someone drank it is a perfect response to the absurd notion of the artist.

If someone threw it away because it was just a bottle of water, then it speaks volumes to the "artists" lack of talent.

[Syncro]

Wow!

Art Imitates Life

[BROKKANIC]

""Hill said he was considering creating another identical piece.

ROFLMAO! As if it would actually require some sort of artistic genius to fill a bottle full of water.