Euro News; A Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the bin. One man’s art is another man’s trash…
“This is rubbish.”
Ever had that thought when gazing at a piece of modern art?
Well, a staff member at a Dutch museum certainly did. It wasn’t an artistic appreciation, mind you. The worker just thought that the artwork was literally rubbish.
Indeed, the Lisser Art Museum (LAM) in the town of Lisse found an artwork that looks like a pair of empty beer cans in the bin after one of their lift technicians mistook the “meticulously hand-painted” cans for trash. more
Even though I enjoy one or many beers occasionally, this is pretty lame art, but the sentiment behind it has a bit of meaning I guess.
To each their own.
A couple years before 9-11 I took the wife to NYC for her birthday. Rudy was mayor back then so the streets were relatively safe. Naturally, we made a stop at MoMA. The first exhibit prominently displayed, and the one garnishing the most attention was an 8 x 10 blank canvas with 6 toilet seats glued on, all painted differently, nothing else on the canvas but the toilet seats. After chuckling, probably louder than I should have and causing a few prune faces, I said to the wife ,”I’ve seen enough, let’s get outa here”.
Why can’t those feminist eco-terrorist shrews throw soup on these?
If it in anyway included Bud Lite, then it was indeed trash.
Gave up my art career in 2005. Haven’t drank since.
What if it was a rare can of Billy beer, is that considered to be trash or a redneck treasure. Only on display at the jimmah and (billy carta) peanut museum in Plains, Georgia.
The museum clearly needs to improve the quality of its collection.
Just think how large the collection could be if they didn’t have anyone cleaning the joint!
I guess I leave ‘art’ about the house every day!
If your work can be confused with garbage you are likely a government supported ‘artist’.
The world needs more dedicated workers like this. The should be promoted to curators.
The dirty diaper exhibit is next on the list.
True story from 2014ish:
I was visiting a relative at the Private Equity Company he was controller at. There was a tipped over Garbage Can in the Front Waiting area with plastic Water bottles all around the floor.
I asked, is someone going to clean that up, & My relative told me, “No, apparently that’s Art.”
He retired 1 year latter