What single work of creation would you remove from the world?

[Blue Hills]

The too too refined art of passive aggressive affected offended victim mode (on behalf of any group that can be used for the perpetrator's individual ego purposes) bullying.

 

[Dirk]

The game is

What cultural artefact would you remove from the world?
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But the title of the thread is - 'What art would you remove from the world?'
I would remove Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst; ipso facto, remove their 'art'.

 

[John the Monkey]

It may be a version of the sunk cost fallacy, but as Modern Art baffled me in much the same way as poetry, I set out to learn more about it.

I can't say that I understand / like *all* modern art, but I have more of an appreciation for (some of) it than I did. Accordingly, getting rid of all of it seems like a bit of a shame.

 

[John the Monkey]

But the title of the thread is - 'What art would you remove from the world?'
I would remove Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst; ipso facto, remove their 'art'.

"I would remove the work of Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst" would be clearer.

 

[Dirk]

The too too refined art of passive aggressive affected offended victim mode (on behalf of any group that can be used for the perpetrator's individual ego purposes) bullying.

Park Life!

 

[Dirk]

"I would remove the work of Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst" would be clearer.

Nah! I'd scrub the pair of 'em! Talentless con artists.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Nah! I'd scrub the pair of 'em! Talentless con artists.

Which is a talent in itself, no?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Opera. Remove the subsidies, remove it from public broadcasting. Why should the tax payer pay to encourage people to ruin fairly decent orchestral pieces. There's a deep chasm between music and drama and it should be allowed to swallow opera up.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

That reminds me. Haiku poetry, over-rated nonsense, it has got to go.

Best one I've ever read!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I read that as remove the sub titles, and found myself in agreement. Understanding the plot ruins it for me.

If there is a plot, it needs replanting.

 

[Julia9054]

I like opera

 

[Cycleops]

Opera. Remove the subsidies, remove it from public broadcasting.

I agree, the only way to fully appreciate opera is to see it live.

 

[Colin_P]

East-Enders, the TV series not the lovable cockneys (although on 2nd thoughts they can go as well )

(I may have worked in that there Landun a fair bit)

They all moved to Essex years ago.

Australia... but Barry Humphries and Midnight Oil can stay.

Angry Anderson?

I would remove that hideous, vulgar chocolate brown statue from St Pancras:

Have you looked up her skirt? Probably not, but I'd suggest many blokes who walk past would like to have a quick peep to check the quality of the casting.

 

[jefmcg]

But the title of the thread is - 'What art would you remove from the world?'
I would remove Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst; ipso facto, remove their 'art'.

I tried to change the title to completely explain it, but it turns out it's only 100 characters allowed, and not all ideas can be unambiguously expressed in 100 characters.

People of course can have write whatever they want, but my intention (as stated) was not to include the complete body of work of an artist, let alone two.

While I am at it, not an art form either, so opera is out. Nor a country. You could block Captain Cook's voyage, or the First Fleet, or to get clever, the Declaration of Independence - because Britain only settled Australia because they couldn't send convicts to America, and needed a new penal colony to send all the poor people (and sheep farkers) to.

I now return you to your usual service of listing things you hate with special emphasis on what may annoy me

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I do think we'd be better off, on balance, without The Donald.

Not that I'd wish him harm, just perhaps put in a cage where small children and women, and well, anyone really could poke him through the bars with sticks.