What does this say about the state of modern 'art'?

[Martrae]

Art gallery loses its head, displays plinth
Jun 15, 9:11 AM (ET)

LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's most prestigious art galleries put a block of slate on display, topped by a small piece of wood, in the mistaken belief it was a work of art.

The Royal Academy included the chunk of stone and the small bone-shaped wooden stick in its summer exhibition in London.

But the slate was actually a plinth -- a slab on which a pedestal is placed -- and the stick was designed to prop up a sculpture. The sculpture itself -- of a human head -- was nowhere to be seen.

"I think the things got separated in the selection process and the selectors presented the plinth as a complete sculpture," the work's artist David Hensel told BBC radio.

The academy explained the error by saying the plinth and the head were sent to the exhibitors separately.

"Given their separate submission, the two parts were judged independently," it said in a statement. "The head was rejected. The base was thought to have merit and accepted.

"The head has been safely stored ready to be collected by the artist," it added. "It is accepted that works may not be displayed in the way that the artist might have intended."



Too too funny.

[Jimmy Durante]

Albrecht Durer is rolling in his grave.

[Hound]

Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp would likely have had a chuckle over it.

[Evermore]

I think their display people should stop having Guiness for lunch.

Hound would your Avatar be Vladimir Tepis?

[Hound]

Hound would your Avatar be Vladimir Tepis?

No, it's Sandor Clegane.

[Spazz]

Modern art is a joke. When it comes down to the sculptures most of that looks like shit we throw away every day where i work

[Ginzburgh]

Like Woody Allen said, "a guy can walk out on stage at carnegie hall and vomit and some asshole would call it art".

[Spazz]

sadly the world is fulla assholes with bad taste in all of the arts

[Drem]

Considering somebody made millions of dollars for painting (literally) a solid red square, I don't think fine art exists anymore. De Stijl artists are rolling in their grave ~ ~

[Captain Insano]

Most art is talentless crap... I could probably act like a fag, get a heroine habit and take a shit on a nike show box and call it modern art and these morons would rave about how genious I am.

Fuck art. The last good artist I know of is Todd McFarlane. He could draw circles around the rest of these assmasters.

[Narrock]

Yeah, modern "art" is... meh. The sidewalk chalk artists are pretty amazing though.

[Markarado]

I still don't get how they make the sidewalk art work so 3D.

[Harrison]

It's all about perspective.

[Markarado]

This I know... I guess I'm just amazed that people can do this.

[Captain Insano]

I still don't get how they make the sidewalk art work so 3D.

superman acid.