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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by redunculous5 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:13PM (#19331138)
But at what point does daring rule-breaking degenerate into mere gimmickry. I guess I can understand why piece generated so much interest in it's time, but since then we've been subjected to a relentless parade of urinals, cow corpses, faeces, signed brillo boxes etc. At this point we've seen the emperor naked ad nauseum
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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by skybrian on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:07PM (#19333561)
Sure, if it's played out, you have to do something different. It's the logic of publicity: whatever gets people's attention works, until it doesn't.

I think this is an interesting way to approach art, actually: you can walk through a museum admiring artists for how they were able to get away with something different.

Although, in this age of memes, maybe it's more interesting to see what holds lasting attention?

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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by MagicPropmaker on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:00PM (#19331679)
The _second_ time it's done! The way I see it, the first person to hang an all white canvas in an art gallery is a genius. The second, third, and fourth, not so much.
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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by jmhnilbog on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:15PM (#19331857)
Eventually it becomes interesting again, though. The guy who does nothing but white canvases gets a degree of notoriety after a while. And the three thousand, two hundredth guy who does nothing but white canvases blows up because now it's funny that people are still doing that.

'First!', 'Frist!!!', 'FIRST!!!1111lol!' and other web comment poop is born of the same impulse.

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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by krapp on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:13PM (#19331840)
At that point it becomes a meme. Are memes art?
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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by zachkatz on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:18PM (#19332568)
Memes are absolutely art. Why not?

That's actually the thesis behind my startup, Memes On Canvas: https://www.memesoncanvas.com

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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by ggggtez on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:53PM (#19332906)
Amazing, good luck with your lawsuits. /s
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