shit in art galleries

[Leo]

ha...yeah in fairness, there's no reason why you'd know this but every "public school" is NYC is numbered. and unlike the UK, public schools are the free ones funded by tax dollars that are town/city run. private schools are the ones that charge hefty tuition fees to attend.

 

[IdleRich]

in the stall next to me there was a guy having a long conversation about hotel reservations which was quite incomprehensible, why was he sat there doing that? he could have just done that in the gallery or outside. was he shitting at the same time?

Ah I read about this, it's actually an installation.

 

[IdleRich]

Maybe relevant, I'm reading this book Droppers about the Drop City commune. The guys who created it were artists who believed that art didn't belong in a gallery, in fact they thought the whole world of galleries and dealers and so on was entirely antithetical to art. They liked to make stuff and leave it in the street, see how people interacted with it etc when they did that they called it a dropping, but a dropping could also be a trick or a harmless lie they told someone - which I guess they viewed as a kind of creativity.

So Drop City was not named for dropping out or dropping acid, it was a place for people who made these droppings to live - unless that claim was itself a dropping

So sounds as though the guy next to you @shakahislop was laying a fairly major dropping.

 

[Leo]

 

[Leo]

As an art collector, he spotted an opportunity and asked a woman working at the gallery if she was willing to sell him the broken pieces. He said she was still mulling the offer.

 

[shakahislop]

so leo how often do you go smashing things up in galleries?

 

[Leo]

think of how mortifying that would be, in the middle of Frieze LA.

 

[catalog]

Can you go to this @Mr. Tea and report back for the lads?

Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene

Artists: Caroline Achaintre, Emma Hart, Kris Lemsalu, Mercedes Mühleisen, Grace Ndiritu, Florence Peake, Kiki Smith, and Lucy Stein Through the work of eight contemporary artists, this specially curated new exhibition for RAMM explores otherworldly connections to nature. Earth Spells: Witches of...

rammuseum.org.uk

 

[Mr. Tea]

Can you go to this @Mr. Tea and report back for the lads?

Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene

Artists: Caroline Achaintre, Emma Hart, Kris Lemsalu, Mercedes Mühleisen, Grace Ndiritu, Florence Peake, Kiki Smith, and Lucy Stein Through the work of eight contemporary artists, this specially curated new exhibition for RAMM explores otherworldly connections to nature. Earth Spells: Witches of...

rammuseum.org.uk

You've fixed it now, I was wondering what the fuck you were on about!

 

[Mr. Tea]

Does look quite interesting, so ta for the heads up.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Might bosh some quasi-toxic toadstools before I head along, you know, get into the spirit of things, like.