I once visited one of my sisters who is a journalist and an art historian and pointed out that I'd spotted a 12" LP record (minus sleeve) in amongst her rockery as I approached her front door.
She told me it was an art installation
Jay.
This is just Bananas #2.
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She told me it was an art installation
Jay.
Why not? I did a performance piece entitled “nap” where I laid down on a cot and went to sleep in front of an audience, which sat there while I napped.I once visited one of my sisters who is a journalist and an art historian and pointed out that I'd spotted a 12" LP record (minus sleeve) in amongst her rockery as I approached her front door.
She told me it was an art installation
Jay.
This is when I fully understood that my fellow Sapiens weren’t firing on all cylinders.
Glowing. Nobody is more full of shit than art reviewers.
Well, if I had Six Millions to throw away - out of billions, that is, I'd donate an art center building, or perhaps chuck a gold plated toilet off a building, carefully video'ed from many angles. Nah, I'd just buy another car I didn't need...
Be truthful now Jay. You are just annoyed that you didn't think of it yourself.
You're quite right there chum, I'm really miffed that I never thought to bid for the banana
Jay.
No worries. I've taped two bananas up, which you can have for the bargain price of $100,000. What a discount!! For something worth twice as much.
Do you think that thre might be something more going on? I don't know what to call this kind of scenario, but suppose that two people are friends and one friend wants to give the other an old car or $200 for some purpose, but for whatever weird unstated reason the friend doesn't want to make it an official donation. Instead, he wants to dress it up as a sale or trade. So he gives his friend the car in return for an overvalued work of art, because artwork can be drastically overvalued due to the subjective value of art.Some loon has just forked out $6.2m for a .35c banana
An 'artwork' titled 'Comedian' has just been bought by a cryptocurrency dealer so who is the comedian here, the 'artist' or the buyer?
Jay.
A simple partial example of the kind of thing where this goes on is with kids selling overpriced stuff to raise money for their school project. The kids' neighbors who buy the stuff don't really want the product necessarily, but they want to help the kid earn money, so they buy it anyway. Sometimes those school sales do have good products though, unlike the taped banana.
