tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post2485663877091082308..comments2024-03-28T03:17:28.911-04:00Comments on Art With a Needle: Art report / Hamburg 2Kathleen Loomishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930922068379938756noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-8424333724093942552018-07-14T18:06:20.026-04:002018-07-14T18:06:20.026-04:00Oh my. It's happened more than once.
https://...Oh my. It's happened more than once. <br />https://www.today.com/video/museum-janitor-mistakes-art-installation-for-trash-cleans-it-up-553659459980<br /><br />Also in Italy: <br />http://gawker.com/cleaning-lady-throws-away-expensive-modern-art-she-mist-1527595660<br /><br />And here's a funny one.<br />https://dangerousminds.net/comments/someone_put_eyeglasses_on_a_museum_floor_people_thought_it_was_art<br /><br />Hilarity abounds out there in the art world!Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11563230869151812456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-21351048351876142672018-07-14T18:02:06.258-04:002018-07-14T18:02:06.258-04:00Wasn't there some piece in a museum that was &...Wasn't there some piece in a museum that was "garbage on the floor" and the night cleaning people cleared it out? Now I'll have to google. Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11563230869151812456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-39652591420269730872018-07-14T18:00:42.980-04:002018-07-14T18:00:42.980-04:00Me too.Me too.Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11563230869151812456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-55819878167971107092018-07-14T09:32:05.948-04:002018-07-14T09:32:05.948-04:00Several years ago I saw a big exhibit by Karla Bla...Several years ago I saw a big exhibit by Karla Black, a Scottish sculptor whose thing was to build huge refrigerator-size piles of powdery stuff directly on the floor of the gallery. I saw a janitor with a broom very carefully sweeping around the edges, but trying to keep the edges as nonchalantly just-poured as they had been all along. I did not envy him his job.kathynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-18426143940845641072018-07-13T20:38:18.691-04:002018-07-13T20:38:18.691-04:00I wondered exactly the same thing when I saw Rausc...I wondered exactly the same thing when I saw Rauschenbergs Stuffed Goat with a tire around it's chest. that is not it's formal name but as my husband at the time was in charge of vacuuming the trophy heads in the biology department and windexing the glass eyes, I wondered.sylviaweir.wordpress.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194373854922827096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-21516428861067785092018-07-13T09:29:45.497-04:002018-07-13T09:29:45.497-04:00More fool the institutions that purchase this type...More fool the institutions that purchase this type of work. Was there actually any work went into these pieces? So much art is bull-manure. Cheers JanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-588118538433483895.post-1065708625272243262018-07-13T08:34:09.648-04:002018-07-13T08:34:09.648-04:00You make me laugh...I often feel this way about ar...You make me laugh...I often feel this way about art piecesSusan Sawatzkynoreply@blogger.com