The Emperor's New Clothes

I wonder what the cards on the wall said... if they could've been interpreted as related to the glasses in some coincidental way or how did the cards get there... were they too placed by the students...

Now they just need to sell it for a million bucks:-)))

I think it was Dilbert who had a cartoon where the gallery janitor forgot his mop and visitors thought it was art.

Why is there a plaque on the wall showing information? Was the original art work missing or something? That would be the only reason why people think it is art, since there's supposedly information on it, which is what every art piece in a museum has.

There are two pieces of paper on the walll.... Maybe that helped?

This is why modern art needs help

The best part is that, although for joke, these teens have actually created a piece of art by conceptally putting those glasses there and move people's minds.

Art historian and critic Barbara Rose wrote “What was done in Duchamp’s name was responsible for some of the silliest, most inane, most vulgar non-art still being produced by ignorant and lazy artists whose thinking stops with the idea of putting a found object in a museum.

Even if there was a placard, how dumb and sheepish are the stream of idiots who respond to such a thing?

A lot of "art" is way, way overrated. However, I think if it wasn't for the writing on the wall, nobody would have thought the glasses were anything other than glasses. Leave it to the foreigners to think it was something special. And they call Americans stupid.

hahaha!

Lol!

Even though it's not supposed to be art. But it became art eventually

Come on! Glasses are a work of art !

What a total hoot!

I too have been confused by some pieces I've across in museums of contemporary art (e.g., not knowing if an object/sculpture was an artwork or a public bench for me to sit on.) With respect to these eye glasses, I too noticed that more people were reading two notices placed on the wall, than looking at the glasses themselves. Any notice on the wall would have given people the distinct impression that the glasses were deliberately placed on the floor with a specific purpose in mind (no matter how serious or silly!) So this "experiment"...or this summary of it...is not as simple or pure as it seems.

that was high art at its finest, most expressive and you all continue to miss it even though the gallery has left the museum and pursued you to your mobile screens

Idiots….

Submit this as your piece to get into the Whitney Biennial

Nah. Not an intact pair of glasses. Now, if someone had stepped on it and crushed it, that would be something.

Shinpachi!!

ROFL????????????

Hillarious!!!

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