omigod i can\'t stop laughing!!

[gkg]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060615/od_nm/britain_sculpture_dc;_ylt=Ah5MbqUUWg4zVvKYyMQulAPtiBIF

as my partner said, that must have been one hell of a plinth!  the poor person who submitted must be crushed!

[sarahd]

Ha ha ha...!!!  

That\'s just way too funny!!!  Have others seen this??  You got to look.

[oldfolkie]

Don\'t tell me...the submissions were looked at by a committee?    Talk about losing your head...

[D.O.D]

 STOP LAUGHING !    DOD

[gkg]

*cough*

*sputter*

errr...

umm...

hehehe - i\'m trying, really i am.  

[buswolley]

I don't think we should ever stop laughing.  Modern art is its own strange beast – the good, the bad, and the what the F...

My fav piece was a large pill of Jolly Ranchers.  It was an interactive, the audience was to partake of the art and then the pile was replenished by the gallery.  It had a price tag of $20,000.  
I tried it in my house for about twenty bucks, but the pile disappeared to fast.

[oldfolkie]

I can\'t resist showing you this one, from the mists of time. http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=35828  It\'s called "Voice of Fire", and there was much to-do when our National Gallery purchased it for the then astronomical sum of $1M.

The funny part is that a local farmer demonstrated his protest of the purchase by creating a pretty precise replica using plywood, a roller, and a couple of cans of house paint, and displayed it at his road-side under the name "Voice of Ire"... I don\'t think he got his million, though *g*

something about the eye of the beholder, I think

[gkg]

hehehe - i actually like that piece.  don\'t know about the price tag, and it doesn\'t speak to me of fire, but rather a mellow tone like a soft version of the old TV signal of days gone by.

poor farmer - only the original can be worth the price, eh?  ;o)