quote:NEW YORK -- It's little more than a scribble, a quick slash of ink on a 12-by-18-inch piece of plain white paper. If you saw it at the office, you might ball it up and toss it into the trash, or fold it into an airplane and fling it down the hall. It is unlikely you'd do what Christie's auction house did last week: try to sell it for $20,000.
And sell they did. But wait! There's more:
quote:And 20 grand seemed reasonable compared with another Friedman piece being sold at the same auction. This one, also untitled, is a two-foot white cube with a barely visible black speck set right in the middle of the top surface. Would you like to guess what that black speck is? You're advised to think outside the box.
To again quote Christie's, it is ".5mm of the artist's feces."
Yes, Tom Friedman put his poop on a pedestal, and last week Christie's tried to sell it, with bidding to start at $45,000.
Who needs satire, these days?
--j_k
[ May 19, 2005, 06:41 PM: Message edited by: James Tiberius Kirk ]
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
What a great job.
Attention bargain hunters: For $45,000 I will sell you much more poop than 0.5mm. Don't pay ridiculously inflated retail prices for a commodity that's not that rare. Buy wholesale!
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
So the original title was: scribble sells for $26K (with pic)
Now for an experiment. Let's see if the new title generates more interest.
--j_k
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Damn. I was going to try that.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
For all the brouhaha we get over postmodern shenanigans, you'd think they were something new. That's exactly why they're so lame - Jeff Koons has been selling idiocy for two decades, and yet people still try to cash in on it.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Let's not over-anal(yze) this. Any shmuck that is willing to pay these feces subject to their own stupidity.