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London - A cleaner at the Tate gallery threw out a modern art exhibit because she thought it was rubbish.
She thought the piece, cardboard and paper and wrapped in a see-through binliner, was a bag of litter, reports The Sun.
She had no idea it was all part of an installation by German artist Gustav Metzgerand displayed on the floor at London's Tate Britain.
Metzger's work, First Public Demonstration Of Autodestructive Art, stood proudly in the gallery's Art And The Sixties display.
He has been offered compensation by gallery bosses, who refused to say what the exhibit was worth.
A Tate spokesperson said: "The bag was accidentally removed and damaged but was subsequently replaced." |
http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Chuckles/0,,2-1343-1349_1579622,00.html
"A cleaner at the Tate gallery threw out a modern art exhibit because she thought it was rubbish."
Talk about a destructive critic. Imagine applying these principles to, say, a painting by Sargent; trashing it, and then subsequently REPLACING by something else. Respect.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:11 am |
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You're comparing a "modernist" piece to Sargent? Try again . . .
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:56 pm |
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| Gort wrote: |
You're comparing a "modernist" piece to Sargent? Try again . . .
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Oh shaddup. 
I'm not exactly the biggest fan of modern art myself, I just found this article very amusing.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:47 pm |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:04 pm |
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haha thanks chruser... i agree, very amusing, and not one bit surprising, the piece really lived up to its auto-destructive name. not sure why they felt the need to replace it though.. o well!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:55 am |
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hmm i think i can understand this. some art things really look like junk. and if u dont know what it means or what condition the artist was in and stuff. well then its just junk 
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:43 pm |
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Let's hear it for cleaning ladies!!!
BRAVO...whistle, stomp.......Author, author !!!!!!
From the mouths of babes and cleaning ladies, Good on her. |
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