Posted on 07/27/2005 3:14:37 PM PDT by MRMEAN
An artist's latest work - a bottle of melted Antarctic ice - may have been stolen and drunk by a thirsty thief.
Artist Wayne Hill filled a two-litre clear plastic bottle with melted ice to highlight global warming.
But the artwork, valued at £42,500, went missing while on display at a literary festival, reports the Scotsman.
Entitled Weapon of Mass Destruction, it vanished halfway through the Ways with Words festival at Dartington Hall, Devon.
Mr Hill said: "It looked like an ordinary bottle of water, but it was on a plinth, labelled, described and in the programme of the whole festival.
"It was very, very clear what it was - a work of art."
The work uses water taken from the threatened west Antarctic ice sheet, which is currently melting at the rate of 250 cubic kilometres a year, he said.
Mr Hill added: "Nobody has any idea what has happened to it. It was there and then it was gone."
The cleaning lady did it!
Why are the quotation marks around 'drinks' and not 'art'?
The 42,000 pound value represents the fact finding mission costs (otherwise known as vacation) that the "artiste" required to get same glacier water. My art of debris from the moon will cost much more.
That's what I'm thinking. I am reminded of a controversial "art" show a while back that had lots of pieces that required no time or expensive materials (or talent, for that matter) to create. The pieces were similarly "valuable." After the show was taken down, the pieces were stored in a warehouse which subsequently burned. I thought at the time that the thing to do would be to create scores of such artworks and lend them to galleries and museums worldwide. Then, whenever any disaster struck anywhere - cha-ching!
Its friggin' ice!!
Hey, cool -- you wanna invest in my new "gallery"? The "scallops Mornay" exhibit is sure to make a killing... ;p
Only if the art is in the harvestng of the scallops at all areas of the world where they are endangered. A $2,000,000 entree as "art." Magnifique!
That's not art.
Now, freeze-dried human corpses?
THAT'S art.
Exactement - c'est brilliant!
I stepped in some dog doo in my Chuck Taylors , when I lifted my foot it looked like Hillary in a rage. Smelled like her too. I value it at $30.00
"It was very, very clear what it was - a work of art."
Man, I wish I had that kind of artistic genius.
Wouldn't that be recycling art? Who could be against that? :)
Let me fix that.
Thief drinks work of 'art'
That's better.
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