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Seth Godin has a great line about how the first person to put a urinal in an art museum was an artist, but the second person to do it was a plumber. It makes a
by async_dev 8y ago
Seth Godin has a great line about how the first person to put a urinal in an art museum was an artist, but the second person to do it was a plumber.
It makes an interesting thought experiment about what makes art, what it means to be "creative", and how the world may (or may not) appreciate your work...
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoI strongly suspect art museums had sanitary plumbing long before it moved to the gallery area. Grayson Perry has a far more insightful critique. https://www.windsorflorida.com/app/uploads/2017/11/Grayson-Perry-The-Island-of-Bad-Art-2013.jpg https://www.windsorflorida.com/app/uploads/2017/11/Grayson-P... If you have £15,000 to spare you can buy a print and hang it on your wall.
- csomar 8y agoI'm confused. Does this mean that the "real plumber" was an artist; or the art museum didn't have WC before putting a urinal art piece.
- async_dev 8y agoYeah, I can see how that's confusing. My take is that the first person to display a urinal (as an art piece) was an artist - but the second person to _try_ to display a urinal (as an art piece) was just a plumber (meaning: not an artist).
- lowdest 8y agoSuccinctly, it's the same as telling a joke a second time to the same audience.
- baroffoos 8y agoIts the common conversation "I could have done that" "But you didn't do that" Most things are easy to copy, coming up with the idea in the first place is the hard part.