Digital BW, The Print

Well I may debate 'what art is??'  but I sure know garbage when I see it...
and read it... ;-)

I'm with the cleaning man.  Six figures for that??  maybe he'd like to
co-sign my house and split the proceeds??

Carolyn

PS:  do you dream in Haiku?  Wonderful! :-)

> 
> Steadman et al,
> 
> Did you see the story in yesterday's NY Times about the Damien Hirst
> installation?
> He set it all up in the gallery street window for his new show (Martin, I
> think it looked like our studios)....they had the opening reception and that
> night the custodian threw it out...said it looked like garbage...the gallery
> owner was quick to point out that he had only "set it aside" (meaning they
> were able to pull most of it out of the dumpster)...she was quoted as
> stating that it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...staff was able
> to put it back together, mostly. Hirst himself thought the whole thing was
> hysterically funny.
> 
> Is art in the eye
> of the beholders or in
> the gallery's dumpster?
> 
> ^  ^
> *  *
> \*/
> 
> t