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A pair of glasses were left on the floor and everyone mistook it for art

7 points by antouank 10y ago

CM30 10y ago
Well, it's better than the alternative: http://www.aol.com/article/2011/02/18/stupid-employee-trick-of-the-day-workers-trash-50k-artwork/19849097/?jwp=1 http://www.aol.com/article/2011/02/18/stupid-employee-trick-... Seriously though, this sort of thing is fairly common in art galleries and museums, especially with the complete randomness that seems to be a lot of modern art: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalArt http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalArt
- mamon 10y ago
  Regarding first link I think that employee did the right thing and the person to be punished is the art gallery director who decided to waste $50.000 on that "cactus" in the first place. This is like the "emperor is naked" story happening again and again.
marcoperaza 10y ago
Nice. This reminds me of the Sokal Affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair), in which a physicist submitted a completely non-sensical buzzword-filled paper with lefty political conclusions to a cultural studies journal. They published it of course. I remember going to the Tate Modern in London and one of the exhibits had several dark rooms, that foot traffic had to pass through, showing videos of naked people pouring blood on themselves. Who pays for this shit? A pair of glasses on the floor is a definite improvement.
dang 10y ago
Every media report has left out the most important detail, which a commenter here explains: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/someone_put_eyeglasses_on_a_museum_floor_people_thought_it_was_art#comment-2696957969 http://dangerousminds.net/comments/someone_put_eyeglasses_on... ("It is pretty clear that there was some sort of label on the wall above the glasses".) That changes everything, since labels like that exist to point out works of art. You can see the label on the wall in some of the posts on that page.

7 points by antouank 10y ago

CM30 10y ago

Well, it's better than the alternative: http://www.aol.com/article/2011/02/18/stupid-employee-trick-of-the-day-workers-trash-50k-artwork/19849097/?jwp=1 http://www.aol.com/article/2011/02/18/stupid-employee-trick-... Seriously though, this sort of thing is fairly common in art galleries and museums, especially with the complete randomness that seems to be a lot of modern art: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalArt http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalArt

mamon 10y ago
Regarding first link I think that employee did the right thing and the person to be punished is the art gallery director who decided to waste $50.000 on that "cactus" in the first place. This is like the "emperor is naked" story happening again and again.

marcoperaza 10y ago

Nice. This reminds me of the Sokal Affair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair), in which a physicist submitted a completely non-sensical buzzword-filled paper with lefty political conclusions to a cultural studies journal. They published it of course. I remember going to the Tate Modern in London and one of the exhibits had several dark rooms, that foot traffic had to pass through, showing videos of naked people pouring blood on themselves. Who pays for this shit? A pair of glasses on the floor is a definite improvement.

dang 10y ago

Every media report has left out the most important detail, which a commenter here explains: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/someone_put_eyeglasses_on_a_museum_floor_people_thought_it_was_art#comment-2696957969 http://dangerousminds.net/comments/someone_put_eyeglasses_on... ("It is pretty clear that there was some sort of label on the wall above the glasses".) That changes everything, since labels like that exist to point out works of art. You can see the label on the wall in some of the posts on that page.