Conceptual Art fought the law (and the law won)

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Artist Who Pocketed Banknotes From His Own Artwork Loses Court Case

The Kunsten Museum gave Jens Haaning $80K to incorporate into a new artwork, but the artist said “it is only a piece of art if I don’t return the money.”

hyperallergic.com

 

[NotHardUp1]

Alcoholism is a serious problem in Denmark.

If I were the Court, I would have ordered his banana nailed to the wall.

 

[LeicsDom]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66866010

Visitors to a new Royal Academy exhibition must squeeze between two nude models to enter it.

What a pretentious load of shit!

 

[NotHardUp1]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66866010

Visitors to a new Royal Academy exhibition must squeeze between two nude models to enter it.

What a pretentious load of shit!

Sounds like the artist was pretty hard up for ideas.

 

[Vannie]

Visitors to a new Royal Academy exhibition must squeeze between two nude models to enter it.

*squeals with delight*

 

[metta]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66866010

Visitors to a new Royal Academy exhibition must squeeze between two nude models to enter it.

What a pretentious load of shit!

Personal space experiment. More of a social sciences experiment than a work of art. I just would not go in between.

 

[Thad1527]

^ I have little shame. But I don't think I'd take that modeling job.

 

[Latimer]

"But the Guardian's Adrian Searle was more positive, calling Abramović's show 'terrifying and vital' in his four-star review."

"Terrible and deadening" is more like it.

Abramovic is pretentious and tiresome and always has been. That she has had a career and much fame is another damning indictment of the decadent contemporary art establishment and our culture in general.

This Royal Academy show follows a quite wonderful one of art from the Spanish-speaking world on loan from the Hispanic Society in NYC. Velasquez, Murillo, Sorolla et al. You get the idea.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

If I were the Court, I would have ordered his banana nailed to the wall.

Taped. Duct-taped.

But otherwise, well-played!

Now, how many other of you guys got the reference he was making?