Why husband slept on the couch last night.

Perhaps you know this story from the news, or know the site, but if not
http://www.renewal.org.au/artcrime/pages/creed.html

WOW! Thanks...

Lol

That is hilarious. She threw eggs into an empty room where the lights go on and off, and it's 'artcrime'. My favourite line of the article:

'The work itself, an essentially empty room where the lights go on and off was undamaged, with the eggs being wiped off the walls minutes later and the room opened to the public the same day of the incident.'

They could have left the eggs on the wall and changed the title to 'The Lights Going On And Off With Eggs On The Wall'.

Nik

Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer

perhaps because someone would have had to shell out for it, or the general public would have thought it was a yoke.... perhaps they could have just photographed it for an albumin cover.....

Yes. With one wall reserved for the framed pricetag - to document the outstanding price. Life-cycles with rebirth and money. Or considered it a very good Performance. Nothing said to defend throwing eggs in museums.

Some Installments make artistical sense to me, but a lot of unbelivable things happen(s) when it comes to money.

says...

My all-time favorite has been the gallery space that was filled with dirt. I don't recall the gallery or the artist, but the idea amuses me no end. I thought at the time that I wouldn't want to be an artist who had to exhibit in that gallery after that 'show.'

Now, not to give people reading this ideas, but I think the 'natural' follow-up to that 'Gallery with Tons of Dirt' show would be a gallery filled with excrement - any kind of excrement. Do you suppose Ofili might read this and 'act?'

Nik, does this person have a sense of humor?

I think you are a creative genius. I'm sure none of the idiots here would have ever thought of this advanced artistic idea.

I bet you needed an art education to come up with this astoundingly original revelation. Tired of Modern Art? check

Even better, make it an interactive exhibit, where people are allowed to contribute to the art. You would document all this on webcams, of course. Let loose a bunch of flies dyed in various bright colors, and you're on your way to a Turner prize.

Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer

Ain't the WWW WWWonderful! I found the answer on this web site:
http://www.paintingsdirect.com/content/abt/093099/ dirt3.html

Walter de Maria - the quintessential 'earth artist!'

De Maria created the first of three Earth Room installations in 1968 at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery in Munich, Germany; this installation was one of his best-known works.

One version, The New York Earth Room, 1977, is permanently installed in a second-floor loft in New York City, owned by the Dia Center for the Arts.

Visitors climb stairs to confront a Plexiglas barrier holding back a gallery full of dirt 22 inches deep. They can look at but not walk over an expanse of rich loamy soil, moistened and picked clean of debris on a regular basis. There is no art object separate from the experience of viewing, and nothing to buy or sell, a circumstance that is typical of much conceptual art of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Part of art's function is to divert attention from the name to the thing: therefore by merely saying, ooo I done saw a gallery filled with doo doo tells us nothing EXCEPT about the insensitivity of the connesewer.

In fact the specific experience of installation art can change your life UNLESS you go in thinking in words and leave unchanged.

As to the very idea that the artists do these for money...it is just silly. There's no money in it.

The purpose of art is to get the monkey brain to shuddup for a while because its narrative hides reality.

I once walked into a gallery filled with dirt. A path through the dirt led to a little shack such as Brazilians construct in favelas and in the shack a radio played.

And yeah, buddy, I left Changed and with a new Awareness of the Plight of the Poor. Wanna make something out of it?

Make my day.