Someone Put Glasses On Museum Floor And Visitors Thought It Was Art
Some teens from San Francisco caused quite a spectacle (sorry) when they placed a pair of glasses on the floor of an art museum recently. Unsure what to make of it, bemused visitors did the only thing they could think of – they thought it was a piece of art and starting taking photographs of them.
The pranksters – Twitter users @TJCruda and @k_vinnn – decided to pull the stunt after being left unimpressed by the art on offer at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. And within minutes of placing the glasses on the floor, a crowd of onlookers had gathered to ponder the metaphysical meaning of this piece of modern “art”. One of the teens, 17-year-old T.J. Khayatan, documented the public’s response and later uploaded pictures of the hilarious experiment to Twitter. Needless to say, they soon went viral and have since been shared over 40,000 times.
It might not have been art, but the prank was still priceless.
196Kviews
Share on FacebookSo close I can taste it, I see what's mine and take it (finders keepers losers weepers)
Load More Replies...i think it just shows that art space is sacred space, and that people respond to whatever you throw at them in the space, positively or negatively. so that's kinda exciting if you're trying to get people to connect or think about something.
Load More Replies...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...
I was curious about that too. It could be the main reason people stopped to look since it looks more "official"...
Load More Replies...It was not just a pair of glasses on the floor. They added a paper with a description of the art, on the wall. So, yeah, for everybody there, it was a real art.
I think it was Dilbert who had a cartoon where the gallery janitor forgot his mop and visitors thought it was art.
Dear author of this article (James), Great spectacle pun. No need to apologise ;)
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.
Congratulations! you have made your first art performance XD So there's a glitch in your experiment, sorry to say.
There are two pieces of paper on the walll.... Maybe that helped?
Dear author (James), Great spectacle joke! No need to apologise! ;)
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.
Between this and the janitor who cleaned up a pile of trash which was ACTUALLY art, I feel like the word "art" is being abused a lot, when paired with "modern".
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.
Ha ha fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time :) n nite sweet dreams God bless :)
Even though it's not supposed to be art. But it became art eventually
We can all be so gullible and tend to give everything the 'benefit of the doubt' !
Well, in that context, it indeed was art. Yes, it's that simple! BUT... whether that's "good" art, touching, inspiring, telling more than one can see. And if so, does it have the ability to have that impact on more than one or two people???
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.
proof that you don't recognize the highest form of art even if the artist makes you a part of it (as you are now reading this)
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
haha this so sums up alot of the utter tripe they serve up at modern art museums.....
"Teens find their inner artist, at art exhibition" - perhaps there is hope!
Nah. Not an intact pair of glasses. Now, if someone had stepped on it and crushed it, that would be something.
Art is subjective... the subject people who think they are sophisticated are really stupid
Hilarious indeed! Proves that any s****y idea from anyone can be considered art these days! Poop on the floor of a "modern arts" museum and people will take selfies with it!
Technically it means that modern art has become conceptual, not that it inherantly sucks.
So close I can taste it, I see what's mine and take it (finders keepers losers weepers)
Load More Replies...i think it just shows that art space is sacred space, and that people respond to whatever you throw at them in the space, positively or negatively. so that's kinda exciting if you're trying to get people to connect or think about something.
Load More Replies...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...
I was curious about that too. It could be the main reason people stopped to look since it looks more "official"...
Load More Replies...It was not just a pair of glasses on the floor. They added a paper with a description of the art, on the wall. So, yeah, for everybody there, it was a real art.
I think it was Dilbert who had a cartoon where the gallery janitor forgot his mop and visitors thought it was art.
Dear author of this article (James), Great spectacle pun. No need to apologise ;)
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.
Congratulations! you have made your first art performance XD So there's a glitch in your experiment, sorry to say.
There are two pieces of paper on the walll.... Maybe that helped?
Dear author (James), Great spectacle joke! No need to apologise! ;)
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.
Between this and the janitor who cleaned up a pile of trash which was ACTUALLY art, I feel like the word "art" is being abused a lot, when paired with "modern".
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.
Ha ha fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time :) n nite sweet dreams God bless :)
Even though it's not supposed to be art. But it became art eventually
We can all be so gullible and tend to give everything the 'benefit of the doubt' !
Well, in that context, it indeed was art. Yes, it's that simple! BUT... whether that's "good" art, touching, inspiring, telling more than one can see. And if so, does it have the ability to have that impact on more than one or two people???
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.
proof that you don't recognize the highest form of art even if the artist makes you a part of it (as you are now reading this)
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
haha this so sums up alot of the utter tripe they serve up at modern art museums.....
"Teens find their inner artist, at art exhibition" - perhaps there is hope!
Nah. Not an intact pair of glasses. Now, if someone had stepped on it and crushed it, that would be something.
Art is subjective... the subject people who think they are sophisticated are really stupid
Hilarious indeed! Proves that any s****y idea from anyone can be considered art these days! Poop on the floor of a "modern arts" museum and people will take selfies with it!
Technically it means that modern art has become conceptual, not that it inherantly sucks.
469
72