[Stosh]

Hadn’t seen that particular event, but same general idea - thanks for posting the link.

Two of my other favorites are a canvas that was painted entirely black that’s exhibited somewhere as an important work, and another that’s all white and similarly held in high regard. I’ve got to wonder which is considered the greater accomplishment, and whether one’s allowed to make that judgment without stumbling into the territory of racial insensitivity.

[Ditter]

Read my post #20. Also while I was attending Glassel two guys (I won't call them artist) took an old abandoned garage apart. They painted it bright red and while they were at it, they painted everything in it bright red.

Then they reassembled it on the 2nd floor of the art school and put every single piece of trash and tools back in exactly where it was originally.

It was a tremendous amount of work and for absolutely nothing!!!
Worthless!!

[MD Expat in PA]

Two of my other favorites are a canvas that was painted entirely black that's exhibited somewhere as an important work, and another that's all white and similarly held in high regard.

I think I saw those "paintings" with my best friend Julie at the National Gallery of Art in DC some years ago - it was titled "Black Canvas" IIRC. As we stood there looking at them and trying to figure out how this was "art", Julie said, "If it looks like something my 6 year old would paint, I don't really consider that art".

I looked it up and the "artist" is Mark Rothko.

Mark Rothko

Another piece we saw that day was a canvas that had all sorts of items glued to it, most looking like junk, pieces of rusted metal and trash and coming out of the center of it was a long electrical cord and at the end of the cord and lying on the floor, was a blue light bulb which was lit.

I said to Julie, "So what happens when the light bulb burns out? Is the art over then or does it become a brand new piece of art?" She laughed but then a security guard, an older black gentleman quietly walked over to us, looked around to make sure no one but us heard him, he then said; "Ain't that some crap? You can't believe how much money they think some of this garbage worth and how seriously they take it." LOL!

That's not to say that I didn't enjoy the National Gallery; they have a lot of great classical and impressionist paintings and some wonderful sculptures and I won't even say I dislike all modern art, but yes, a lot of it now days is stupid and ugly and pointless.