As least when he did it it was only for a video and not some elitist publicity stunt like when Bell did it or these people did it.

Screw ‘em.

Greathouse…wow!

Likewise, no matter how much you build it up, art is (and can never be any more than) a commodity. The only reason why it is worth so much is because people like the gallery curators in this film spend so much time talking up its pedigree in grandiose ways.

But no matter how much of a back-story you attach to a painted board or a folded piece of metal, it’s still just a painted board or a folded piece of metal. Once you take it out of the showroom and away from the flowery speeches of the saleswomen, a fair portion of the glamour is lost. This is where most art simply becomes decoration.

Sadly, in some cases, especially with much of contemporary art, once you take away all the advertising and marketing stories, the product your left with isn’t even noteworthy enough to pass for decoration anymore.

And so it goes with Mr. Tuyman’s work. The so-called most important artist of his generation registers with commuters as little more than window dressing. At least I can respect him for his good sportsmanship in participating in this experiment.

I wonder if they sold that mural afterwards… ;-)

Of course if I said this to one of those elitists they’d say things like “but he has such a quiet gravitas.” No wonder you need a masters degree to work as a curator in some of these places.

Hell, 20% of you don’t even consider feces and facetious to sound close enough alike to figure out the joke.

Damn, I’m disappointed.

From the Compton Towers to the various Banksys all over Hollywood, even Takahasi Murakami himself so admired the graffiti on a billboard to his retrospective, that he had it removed and flown to his studio for display.

We can sit and attack the so-called “Intellectual Establishment” and berate the processes by which great art is evaluated, but how many of us can say they KNOW they would have stopped at Bell and Tuymans? I know i would have. I make an effort to always stop and enjoy public works and performances, but I also know how blind people are to their immediate surroundings.

People just have no appreciation for money.

I was too busy laughing at your choice of the word ‘taint’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpXrt5wRPWE

Like many have said before, all I see is an echo chamber.

Its also very different than the Joshua Bell experiment because of the nature of the medium. Even for musical forms I’m not fond of, I can tell by a few notes that someone is talented in terms of their playing of an instrument. I’d wager the same is true of most of us.

The same cannot be said for whatever-kind-of-art this is. Its the old “my kid can paint that” argument. Additionally, as has been pointed out, we are presented with hordes of visually pleasing images in public all the time. Its called advertising and most us have probably programmed ourselves to tune it out.

Gotta love how seriously these people take themselves. No wonder the average person doesn’t take art seriously, when you’re condescended to on this level.

Technically, they’re disconnected from your perception of reality. Since their reality seems to involve getting to do whatever they want and enjoying themselves while they do it, I don’t quite get the scary/hilarious part.

Especially because at night, people are walking fast and ignoring their surroundings on purpose because it’s dark and they need to get home. During the night time portion, nobody looked at it for this reason.

Monkies

It’s from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil

I’ve seen a lot of very interesting graffiti out there, some of it thoughtful, sublime, grandiose, etc. But most street art that gets my attention is at least colorful enough to register against its background. Grayscale art on concrete? How would I ever notice that when rushing down the street?