ART

Really nice work!

Abolish art:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/30/man-dressed-as-old-lady-in-wheelchair-smears-cake-on-mona-lisa-in-suspected-climate-protest?

abolish cake also

keep caek

the smear is far more visually interesting than the actual painting tbf.

the painting is fine but there is no point ever going to see it, the crowd in front of it is insane. plenty of other rooms in the louvre with good art and zero people in!

hueg hi res version preferable to peering over the heads of 200 rubes all holding up their phones: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Mona_Lisa%2C_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg

Or, just stroll over the nearest bridge to the Musee D'Orsay which is 1000x better than the Louvre.

having fun reading about the tumblr campaign to restore the mona lisa!!!! and comparing this restored copy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(Prado) - the original's extreme yellow tint adds to the mystery imo.

stick the googly eyes back on

"The cleaning lady at a museum in the German city of Dortmund thought she was just doing her job when she… ruined… the installation When it Starts Dripping From the Ceiling by the late Martin Kippenberger in 1987…. In 1986 a 400,000-euro grease stain by Josef Beuys was simply mopped up in Duesseldorf. In 1973 two women cleaned up a baby bathtub Beuys had wrapped in gauze and bandages so they could use the container to wash dishes after an event."

The best art!

"The artwork, named 'Where shall we go dancing tonight?', was thrown away by a cleaner who mistook it for a mess from the previous night. It consisted of cigarette butts, empty champagne bottles and confetti."

"A bag of rubbish that was part of a Tate Britain work of art has been accidentally thrown away by a cleaner."

"A cleaner thought the piles of full ashtrays, half-filled coffee cups, empty beer bottles and newspapers strewn across the gallery were the remnants of a party in the west London gallery. Although that is what it was..." SAY NO MORE

"A cleaner at an Italian art gallery has thrown away contemporary artworks valued at $15,000, after mistaking them for a pile of rubbish. The unnamed cleaner swept up the paper, cardboard and pieces of broken biscuit"

divert the canals thru the museums

i'm also inordinately fond of this story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-58529069

police are rounding up all known drunken tuba-players

Art as hazardous waste:

Lee Bull’s Majestic Splendour:

In 1997, during the Projects showing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the exhibit had to be removed because the smell got so powerful that guards at the museum were becoming physically ill. After this Lee began using potassium permanganate, which is combustible, to help neutralize the smell.

n 2018 Majestic Splendor was intended to be on display at the Hayword Gallery in London …While it was being removed from the premises the potassium permanganate activated and started a small fire, delaying the opening of the exhibition.

Acord was the only private individual in the world licensed to own and handle radioactive materials, and acquired nuclear fuel rods containing depleted uranium from the completed but not operated German SNR-300 breeder reactor to use as artistic materials. He had his nuclear license number tattooed onto his neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Acord