If contemporary art doesn't want to be shat on, and wants to be taken seriously by the public, then they need to stop allowing people to label garbage (in this case literally) as "contemporary art". No one has (and shouldn't have) any respect for something labelled "art" that didn't take any actual creative effort.

Neck tattoo: Slowly being strangled to death by your own douchebaggery.

I agree - but there' no cleaning ladies making 13 grand in 3 months! That's a year's salary right there.

Because it's not okay to laugh about the fact that art that looked like garbage was treated like it was garbage? That's fucking hilarious, dude.

If somebody's art is so easily mistaken for literal garbage, then the artist needs to try harder to reach everyone. I would have gotten a rightful 'F' for turning in something so lazy.

I can't help but feel like literal crumbled-up cookie crumbs on the ground that a cleaning lady saw and cleaned up because they were indistinguishable from cookie crumbs dropped on the ground by a messy child is slightly different from some 20th century art snob sneering at a Picasso. The Picasso painting was always a…

You do realize that the guy off the street might not know the right era classification, right? Of course you do. You're luxuriating in the chance to lecture from on high. That's probably why this kind of crap leaves such a bad taste in peoples' mouths——not the art, per se, at least in theory——but the arrogance of its…

I think that people are more outraged at the fact that someone decided that this dude's trash was worth 13,000$. That is bullshit. You can throw whatever you want on the floor and call it conceptual art, no one's going to stop you, but pretending it's worth anything is ridiculous.

Maybe because "Modern Art" has been over for some time. Now a bunch of talentless lazy hipsters throw some garbage on the floor and call it a "statement". Art should be able to be enjoyed, by everyone, from the cleaning lady to the Duchess of Windsor.

In this thread - smarmy McSmarmypants hating on people who deign to have an opinion about art and what they like and don't like. Those mouth breathers should keep their ignorant mouths shut, amiright????

I love it that you defend the use of actual trash in "art" by comparing it to the work of someone whose art was described only theoretically as trash.

Perhaps because modern art is terrible. A lot of what people pass off as art is garbage. In this case literally.

I'd also add the the Damien Hirst piece deserved to be ruined, however, because fuck that guy.

A CLEANING LADY fucking up some pretentious asshole artist's art piece kind of makes me feel good. The ghosts of all those artists that died penniless must be laughing their arses off.

How else would modern artists come up with such shitty installations?

Wow... I didn't realize people held art exhibits so far up their own asses!

My ex BIL used to run a modern art gallery. I stopped going to exhibits when one of the shows consisted of the following installations:

Charity is the only way anyone would okay for themselves to get Pharrell's hideous hat!

I still don't understand how "fine and sexy" people are automatically precluded from pathological behavior? Many people found Ted Bundy handsome, and he was way more interested in decapitating people than in having normal sex. If you're drugging and raping multiple people, it ain't the sex you're getting off on. It's…

To me anyone who says that is saying that, deep down, they believe that in the world of getting laid, Plan A is find a person who wants to sleep with you, and somewhere back in the list of contingencies [Plan B, C, Z, possibly Last Resort] is commit rape. Like, they certainly hope it never comes to that for them, but…