So he decided to set a regular pair of eyeglasses on the floor in an empty corner of the museum just to see what would happen.
This is what happened.
Better get a really nice frame for that picture, buddy.
People began flocking around the glasses as if they were a brilliant piece of art, even taking pictures of them.
Of a random pair of glasses someone just set on the floor.
What's really sad is that if they had put a price tag on that "art" of, say, half a million dollars, you know some rich idiot dying of boredom would probably pay it because it's "post-modern" and "existentialist" and "insert more five dollar words here".
Reader Comments
Because of that desire for distraction, people are becoming more gullible, and willingly so.
Others are fast asleep ... if the authorities say this is art then that is something for them to believe
They are incapable of filtering out such stupidity, they've basically been de-programmed and are now dependent on external control
It lens itself to ridicule.
Did you hear about the man who fell into a lens-grinding machine and made a spectacle of himself?