Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum
Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum
A mechanic working at the LAM museum in Lisse assumed the artwork, entitled All The Good Times We Spent Together, was rubbish
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Art exists solely as it is interpreted by the observer.
In this case, the observer interrupted the art as trash.
I believe this kind of art should embrace the impermanence. The concept is more valuable than the object.
There was another story like this. The exhibit depicts an after party scene with champagne bottles and other party "trash" everywhere. It was placed in a room. The custodians thought there was a party earlier and promptly cleaned the room.
This is terrible.
Aluminium cans should have gone in the recycling! ♻️
The idea that someone'd think someone'd littered like that in a museum tickles me a bit.
Beer can artwork temporarily made interactive.
To be fair, I feel like that's kind of what the artist was hoping for. Would you be reading about his piece if some Philistine with no concept of what constitutes art hadn't thrown it away?
I mean, that makes it a pretty damn successful work.
Good times are symbolized by littering alcohol cans?
That title is a garden path sentence! I was like beer can artwork? Is that grammar correct?
If beer can artwork, then so can you!
I don't want to be canned
I am beer can artwork!
Yea, headline writers are often... Casual.
It should be something like "Beer-can art" with it without the quotes (I'm not sure, really).
tbh i would have thrown it away even if i knew it was "art"
Sounds like museums and art centers aren't your thing.
i love museums and art centers.
the great thing about art is everyone is free to define it how they want, and no one is wrong.
"art" to you, "garbage" to me
Good. That's not art. That's trash. Throw the "artist" in the bin while you're at it.
The labels on the cans were hand painted with acrylic, so there was more effort put in to this installation than if they just grabbed some beers at the local convenience store and dumped them out.
That's different then. My bad.
There's always someone arguing about the purity of art. Art doesn't have a strict set of rules. Anything can be art. Saying otherwise limits it's ability.