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"The man destroyed the large blue and white Porcelain Cube at a busy private opening for the exhibition “Who am I?” at Palazzo Fava in Bologna on the evening of September 21. Local police arrested a 57-year-old Czech man who has been identified in Italian media as Vaclav Pisvejc, a provocateur and self-proclaimed artist known for targeting important works of art."

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

ah yes, being able to survive being hit with a hammer, what everyone is looking for from art.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Surely the point of art is that it's intelligent and provokes thought what the hell does a cube do?

My point is you cannot assign value to something simply because someone claims to be an artist.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Consider this: I pick up a tennis racket and a tennis ball, so does my wife, we go to a tennis court, I hit the ball to her gently, she hits it back: Are we playing tennis or not?

If we are not, what are we doing?

And yet it's nowhere near the level of Serena Williams, or even the local semi Pro tournament, or probably even the local tennis club.

why does it have it be good, or more accurately for this conversation- why do you have to like it for it even to exist and have a name?

I dont particularly care for The Wiggles, or for Machine Gun Kelly, but both of them produce music. Just because I don't like it, or think it's not good doesn't mean it's not music. Even a child slowly, shakily playing a basic C major scale and getting it wrong is still "music." Its not Mozart but it still exists.

There is no "point" or "value" you can attach to tennis, music or sculpture - or other forms and media of art, entertainment, sport, science etc that means it suddenly becomes that. Art you don't like is still art.