$1 million artwork destroyed by a cleaner.

[Bad Company]

I had to laugh at this. I thought the 'art' was rubbish anyway - http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-15613227

 

[tudor]

Would hate to have that come out of my paycheck.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Oh, I love that cleaning lady.

 

[Melonfish]

For their next trick, Cillit bang on the marble statues!!!

 

[snailracer]

What an ingenius scam: nail together a pile of DIY leftovers and other assorted rubbish, insure it for £1M as a art "installation", then get your mate to "accidentally" destroy it - claim £1M !

 

[Basil.B]

Send that cleaner to the next Tracey Emin Exhibition!

 

[Yellow Fang]

Is it worth more or less now?

 

[Archie_tect]

I expected the OP to report that someone had made Tracy Emin's bed.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Reminds me of that joke when that fire broke out in the Saatchi art gallery in which works by Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst were destroyed. Insurance assessors said literally 100's of pounds worth of damage was caused.

 

[Archie_tect]

We go to the Baltic regularly to reinforce our prejudice.
Several pieces have caused consternation including a collection of fire extinguishers put in a corner ready to be serviced....

 

[Night Train]

Reminds me of that joke when that fire broke out in the Saatchi art gallery in which works by Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst were destroyed. Insurance assessors said literally 100's of pounds worth of damage was caused.

In real terms that is probably true. The materials lost would be of minimal value as the concept could be recreated by anyone from a photo of the original.

I often think that if an average 'person on the street' cannot recognise something as art, even if they don't understand or like it, then it shouldn't be called art.

Which one is art?

This one?

DOUG FISHBOURNE CONCEPTUAL ART INSTALLATION OF 30000 BANANAS ON VIEW IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, BRITAIN - 05 OCT 2004


Or this one?

Fruit in big pile, Ulupalakua Ranch, Maui, June 29, 2010

 

[MissTillyFlop]

In real terms that is probably true. The materials lost would be of minimal value as the concept could be recreated by anyone from a photo of the original.

I often think that if an average 'person on the street' cannot recognise something as art, even if they don't understand or like it, then it shouldn't be called art.

Which one is art?

This one?

DOUG FISHBOURNE CONCEPTUAL ART INSTALLATION OF 30000 BANANAS ON VIEW IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, BRITAIN - 05 OCT 2004


Or this one?

Fruit in big pile, Ulupalakua Ranch, Maui, June 29, 2010

I do 't know whether it's art, but I love the boy and bananas picture.

 

[Archie_tect]

Some very artistic farmers round your way.

 

[ColinJ]

Which one is art?

This one?

(Pile of bananas)
SQUARE, LONDON, BRITAIN - 05 OCT 2004
Or this one?

(Pile of other stuff)

The one that had been conceived and created by a recognised artist, of course! You can't recognise art by looking at it, you have to know who was responsible for it and why they did it ...

So:

• Artist piles up bananas because he has too many bananas and nowhere else to put them = NOT ART
• Artist piles up bananas as searing indictment of post-modern banana storage policy = ART
• Non-artist exactly copies artist's pile of bananas (whether it was an artistic pile, or not) = NOT ART

(I had someone trying to convince me of this once. I took it for about 10 minutes and then I declared it a load of pretentious claptrap and walked away.)

 

[slowmotion]

The Momart fire was the inspiration for a wonderful little cartoon by Matt. Can anybody find it?