posted October 09, 2018 08:00 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
I liked this, too.

I remember someone buying a blank canvas, for a million dollars (something like that), over twenty years ago. At the time, I thought they were stupid, and the "artist" was a scam artist that got lucky.

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posted October 14, 2018 06:33 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
I liked this, too.

I remember someone buying a blank canvas, for a million dollars (something like that), over twenty years ago. At the time, I thought they were stupid, and the "artist" was a scam artist that got lucky.

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just the way the art community is

there's a documentary about a woman with a jackson pollack piece that was checked out by forensics labs and declared authentic but it's "worthless" to the art community for pointless reasons

it's an interesting glimpse into the way this sort of thing is marketed

pretty sure it was an art gallery in italy where a woman sold an unmade bed as art too

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Originally posted by Randall:
The value actually went up.

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posted October 14, 2018 11:24 PM            

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Originally posted by SunAscendant:
I'm surprised nobody has unmasked his real identity yet. He's def got to have some major Pluto/Scorpio vibes since he's so sneaky and covert about everything.

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there's quite a bit of evidence linking him to a british musician whose name i can't recall right now

during a radio interview someone connected implied as much in a way that seemed like an accident, happened this past year actually

posted October 15, 2018 09:50 PM            

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Originally posted by Dumuzi:
not surprising, now it's art and a souvenir from a performance piece at the same time

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This has me wishing that my Gemini Moon/Venus really were what people make them out to be, and that I was capable of something like this, but I'm not. I don't know how someone does something like that, and continues to feel good about themselves.

posted October 15, 2018 11:49 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
This has me wishing that my Gemini Moon/Venus really were what people make them out to be, and that I was capable of something like this, but I'm not. I don't know how someone does something like that, and continues to feel good about themselves.

Re: the unmade bed being sold as art, and the empty canvas.

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usually when artists do something like that it's a matter of frustration at the art community and the buyers

i suppose if i had it in me to want to deal with people like that i wouldnt feel too bad about selling that sort of thing to them

it'd be like working any other job you dont care about and doing things that matter to you on the side i imagine

documentaries like the jackson pollack one and well... exit through the gift shop illustrate some of it well