I don't know much about art but...

[Nick Salmon]

Apparently, this is 'art'. An exhibit at the Turner Prize show in London. Described by the Times journalist as 'a vintage Ford Escort covered with a massive crochet doily'.

Does my chucking an old table cloth over the Austin Seven count as art too?


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[Reckless Rat]

I find modern "art" closely related to a pile of bollocks, in most instances. As per the above.

[Steve kay]

A retired museum curator comments, thank heavens I wasn’t ask to write the exhibition catalogue for that one.

[Andy Bennett]

Through a series of installations and kinetic, musical sculptures, Kaur works with sonic memory and the cultural resonances of everyday materials and objects. Axminster carpet, bottles of blessed Irn Bru, political flyers and salvaged family photographs are re-worked to evoke new cultural readings. By weaving together vernacular objects and sound, she considers how political ideologies are carried in community spaces.

nuff said...

[Dave Wortley]

It reminds me of a sketch Harry Enfield did in which he played an art/antiques dealer. The shop was called “I saw you coming”.
I am completely bemused by some modern art. We went to the Tate Modern a few years ago and in one of the exhibition halls there was a workbench, some car tyres and the sort of stuff I have hanging around in my workshop in case the stuff needs “repurposing”.
It turns out that it was a complete art installation.

[David Cochrane]

I don't know much about art, but I reckon the stuff that Athow is producing (see 'My Kiwi Reproduction ulster' thread) is far more artistic, beautiful and skilled than most modern so-called art...

[Reckless Rat]

+1 what he said.

[Tony Griffiths]

"...cultural resonances of everyday materials and objects" My goodness, how true, I think of little else.

[Andy Bennett]

Personally I was considering 'how political ideologies are carried in community spaces' myself when thinking about how our new man Kier was just as keen as the rest of them to take a bung by way of freebies to ensure he looked good when visiting local communities, after all it would be the wrong ideology for a labour leader to be seen wearing the same glasses twice.

[Tony Griffiths]

Personally I was considering 'how political ideologies are carried in community spaces' myself when thinking about how our new man Kier was just as keen as the rest of them to take a bung by way of freebies to ensure he looked good when visiting local communities, after all it would be the wrong ideology for a labour leader to be seen wearing the same glasses twice.

Looks like Starmer's £1000 glasses are meant to help him "see the future" of British politics—but I hope they came with a solid refund policy, just in case ......

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It's not just the art, it's the convoluted language used - just like corporate speak, but far worse. Stripping out the garbage we might be left with: "Kaur creates art using sound and everyday items like spanners and family photos - and explores how people remember sounds and how objects tell new stories. By combining items with sound, she thinks about how political ideas emerge in communities." It still makes no sense though.