Damian Hirst had an artwork consisting of a collection of beer bottles, coffee cups and overflowing ashtrays, until a gallery cleaner swept it up!
Maurizio Cattelan's artwork "Comedian" is a banana taped to a wall. Apparently it cost $129,000, which is quite a markup on the raw materials. Occasionally a visitor will eat the banana and the gallery staff stick up a fresh one.
The late Brian Sewell once wrote:
"I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent."
...which is pretty much my stance.
Maurizio Cattelan's artwork "Comedian" is a banana taped to a wall. Apparently it cost $129,000, which is quite a markup on the raw materials. Occasionally a visitor will eat the banana and the gallery staff stick up a fresh one.
The late Brian Sewell once wrote:
"I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent."
...which is pretty much my stance.