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March 24, 2005
High Culture Jamming
Kottke.org links to an awesome story about a British artist who snuck into four New York galleries and hung his own paintings. The MOMA piece survived for three days, and two of the other ones are still hanging.
This strikes me as a great spin on the whole Duchamp tradition of hanging a urinal on a gallery wall and calling it art. When a famous artist does that, it's really just a celebration of his own authority to declare what counts as art. This is a much more legitimately subversive jesture. I hope one of the museums has the sense of humor - and guts - to keep the piece up, or even buy it.
Stealing gallery space (kottke.org)
Posted by tedf at March 24, 2005 10:30 PM
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