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mawnansmiff

Lifer
Oct 14, 2015
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Sunny Cornwall, UK.
We were doing conceptual stuff like this back in the late 60’s and early 70’s.

Stuff like this is always commentary.
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 cray

Jay.
 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
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Southern Oregon
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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 cray

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.
This is when I fully understood that my fellow Sapiens weren’t firing on all cylinders.
 

jpmcwjr

Lifer
May 12, 2015
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Carmel Valley, CA
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...
 

rakovsky

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 28, 2024
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Some loon has just forked out $6.2m for a .35c banana cray

An 'artwork' titled 'Comedian' has just been bought by a cryptocurrency dealer so who is the comedian here, the 'artist' or the buyer?

Jay.
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.

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.
 

MisterBadger

Part of the Furniture Now
Oct 6, 2024
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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.

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.
Maybe - it looks a lot like money-laundering to me.
 
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rakovsky

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 28, 2024
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Maybe - it looks a lot like money-laundering to me.
That would be a reasonable hypothesis.
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