Digital BW, The Print

Once saw a show in the Chicago Art Institute many years ago. There were
about 20 canvases, about 4 square feet each, each one painted solid
black, no black on black images, just pitch black. No frames. People
came into the room, looked around for about 4 or 5 seconds and walked out.

Art?

What's that?



Jerry








ternahan wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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