At the San Fransisco Museum of Art, an abstract gets close scrutiny.
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![Man steps in peanut butter art — fined as a result.
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Nutty Art of the Day: A patron of the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam has been asked to pay up after he damaged a 50-year-old piece by Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers when he inadvertently stepped in it.
Peanut Butter Platform — a large wading pool filled with 2000 jars worth of peanut butter — isn’t cordoned off to avoid “spoil[ing] its beauty” — a decision which has invited three similar incidents in the past.
[arbroath.]
I really don’t get modern art. No, really.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll44rfRW3C1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Man steps in peanut butter art — fined as a result.
Nutty Art of the Day: A patron of the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam has been asked to pay up after he damaged a 50-year-old piece by Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers when he inadvertently stepped in it.
Peanut Butter Platform — a large wading pool filled with 2000 jars worth of peanut butter — isn’t cordoned off to avoid “spoil[ing] its beauty” — a decision which has invited three similar incidents in the past.
[arbroath.]
I really don’t get modern art. No, really.
(Source: thedailywhat)
Three Works at the National Gallery We’d Have Defaced Before Gauguin - Arts Desk - Washington City Paper (hilarious)
John Anderson: Actually, I’ve been defacing a work of art very subtly since September last year. On the second Wednesday of every month I walk into the National Gallery’s East Wing at the exact moment it opens and casually make my way down to the Sol Lewitt, “Wall Drawing #65.” I then reach into my pocket to randomly select a colored pencil: one of the four colors on the wall—except I haven’t been a careful study. The colors in my pocket are not exact matches, but I work them in so delicately it is nearly impossible to tell that my colored pencil is not the exact same tone as the colored pencil originally on the wall. To date I have yet to work up the chutzpah to add my touch to the “Untitled” Robert Ryman painting. But I carry a baby food jar filled with white paint, and a liner brush…just in case.
Since 2010, Jon Rafman has been digitally reimagining objects and settings in the styles of famous artists for a tumblr blog called Brand New Paint Job. (See the Edward Hopper Buick Station Wagon and theFranz Kline Starbucks).
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Here, he gives the Oval Office a new paint job in the style of Jasper Johns, borrowing heavily from“Three Flags.”
The strangest piece of “music” ever “written.”
John Cage
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I consider myself to be somewhat sophisticated when it comes to the arts, and music in particular. I can appreciate a wide range of music old and new from the purity of a Bach fugue to the symphonic master of Beethoven the eastern European raw power of a Kodaly or a Khatchaturian, to even the ethnomusicological fusion of later Paul Simon songs or the stripped-down hooks of the Neptunes.
But to me, most of Cage’s stuff, and especially this piece, smacks of the smugness of “I’m doing this because I can get away with it.” Much like patenting the water from a certain stream, or painting a square on a canvas, I’m hard pressed to find the statement, other than “because I can.”
From a philosophical standpoint, it undoubtedly makes a contribution, in terms of challenging the expectations of the audience. From a musical standpoint, though, I’m just amazed that people pay money to see this performed.
