ART IMITATES SHIT
Crappy Art Fetches $96,000 at Christie's
You know it's Art Week in New York when a can of excrement sells for almost a hundred grand. Late Italian artist Piero Manzoni's 1961 feces-de-résistance "Merda d'artista no. 19" sold yesterday for more than its asking price. It was part of a Christie's auction for the collection of Swiss uber-dealer Pierre Huber.
The piece is one of 60 cans into which the creatively regular Italian defecated in 1961, a cheeky statement on the fact that people will purchase anything—and one that seems totally lost on art buyers 40-some years later.
You know it's Art Week in New York when a can of excrement sells for almost a hundred grand. Late Italian artist Piero Manzoni's 1961 feces-de-résistance "Merda d'artista no. 19" sold yesterday for more than its asking price. It was part of a Christie's auction for the collection of Swiss uber-dealer Pierre Huber.
The piece is one of 60 cans into which the creatively regular Italian defecated in 1961, a cheeky statement on the fact that people will purchase anything—and one that seems totally lost on art buyers 40-some years later.
posted by Lady Bunny at Thursday, March 01, 2007
14 Comments:
Gilbert & George uses shit and body fluids to create lovely works of art. Perhaps they are planning to do a muriel. It's true, people will buy any old tat. I like to look on e-bay occasionally just to see what kind of delights and horrors the transvestites are selling, it never ceases to amaze me!
I'm just wondering what happens when somebody in the buyer's home goes looking for an extra can of dogfood, doesn't read carefully, and...
anyone interested, five bucks get you a pickle bottle full of mine.a dollar more and i ship it with a lid.
Well, people DID buy your DVD...
I already know exactly why the person bought this: they're going to keep it for the rest of their lives only to leave it as an inheritance to the family member they hate the most. Likely, their spouse.
I could only consider paying that much if it was delivered fresh.
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good lord.
I meant to say, I believe Martha Stewart suggests serving it broiled on crumpets
Shit crusts, she calls them, I think
Made from '38 Duck poo mixed with Rosie O'Donnel grease and Donald trump Sludge
Thank the Gods you put something else on here, like a can of old shit, so that when I pulled up your site on a daily basis, I didn't have to look at that ugly assed susie orman. Your truly the one, bunny!
where can I buy Suzie Orman's poo?
***shudders uncontrolably**
Oh my hell. I can just see a brand-new market opening, for celebrity shit.
Paris Hilton has already warmed us up for that one, with her CD.
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