I gotta get in on this money laundering scam
Step 1: Buy old rope for 1m at gallery Step 2: Get same gallery to appraiser old rope for 20 million Step 3: Donate old rope to a museum and claim 20 million write-off on taxes Step 4: Repeat and win
Silliness aside, old rope kinda fascinates me. Some lasts forever, some is rotten beyond use. I have a giant sack at camp, all kinds. Interesting to see how different materials last, stretch, rot, etc.
Friend gave me quite a bit of the thickest nylon rope pictured. Made a shitty rope bridge out of it that might outlast my old carcass.
And now please explain to me why this is “art” and not just human slop.
but its curated, in stark space and he’s waring all black! IT ART!
The headline is a little misleading, no? He is offering for sale 10 tonnes of old rope as art for £1m; the article certainly does not mention him having found a buyer, which the headline implies.
one of my three favorite artists.
He’s pushing rope.
Did you miss the actual joke of the piece?
Don’t tell them about Joseph Beuys.
The end of the Fettecke
In 1986, a custodian in the Art Academy of Düsseldorf cleaned up the butter about nine months after Beuys’ death.I read the article 3 times now and still don’t understand
Fair enough, it’s a bit short. Joseph Beuys was an artist that worked with fat & felt a lot. He was famous and esp. after his death his artwork went for insane prices. One of his works was literally a corner of a room filled with fat (butter, apparently, but it’s called Fettecke = fat corner or grease corner). A cleaner accidentally cleaned it up, not knowing what it was. Or so the story goes.
Being a cleaner at a modern art museum has to be stressful
While I fully appreciate abstract art, I’m a bit incensed that this is being sold for £1m.
No one has bought it for £1m.
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Nice work if you can get it.
Anyone can get it if you go find the island of it floating around in the Pacific Ocean (I think?).
That’s microscopic plastic
Easy money!
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