More Modern Art: Bidders not moved by feces on cube....

[Analog]

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. Auction season in Manhattan is a two-week spending spree of paddle-waving rich people and art dealers in Prada suits, all of them vying for highbrow booty at Christie's and its archrival, Sotheby's. The regulars were asking questions like "How much will the Hopper fetch?" and "Which house will gross more?"

But if you'd never visited Planet Expensive Art, you didn't care about that, not after you spotted those Friedmans. After that, all you could wonder is: How does an artist peddle his doody, not to mention his doodle? And here's another stumper: Who would buy it?

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs...520/REPOSITORY/505200304/1003/BUSINESS

 

[StrangerGuy]

I'm going to take a plastic bag and collect my cough with it, then sell it at Ebay from $20,000. Profit!

 

[Ikonomi]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
That piece of sh1t actually worths more than gold?! o m g

Apparently not.

 

[Analog]

certainly wasn't hot shit.

 

[cherrytwist]

Not an original concept. At least this guy took the time and energy to have his canned.

Piero Manzoni

 

[faenix]

$50,000 on the 2x2 cute with the .5 poop on it was PASSED. Wow.

 

[Landroval]

eek!

 

[JoeKing]

about the feces on cube....

The first time he exhibited the piece, someone thought it was a seat and sat on it. Friedman saw it happen and yelled "Stop!" but too late. He was unable to find the small, crucial part of the piece.

"I had to go home and make some more," he says.

lol :laugh: