Thursday, October 25, 2007

Friggin Andy Warhol

Not art.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2007/10/20/nat.art.design.chair.cnn?iref=videosearch

I'm sure it was enjoyable to bang on this sleek looking steel box, but I'm not buying it as art. The people talking about this just acted like it was the greatest thing ever too. Ok, so this is a fundraiser and may in fact lead to a greater piece of art in the long run, so one could argue through that, that it is art; but I'm definitely not convinced. It's a chair. A very crude and unusable chair, I'd be more willing to call the original steel box art.

And for those who have 7 minutes of life to waste like I did, here's the long version:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2007/10/20/nat.art.design.chair.cnn?iref=videosearch
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