I May Not Know Art Department

Speaking of the Sunday funnies, Scott Stantis offers a capsule critique of what passes for Art^TM nowadays, over at Prickly City.

 Apropos of Art^TM , I heard that Marcel Duchamp’s work of "art," The Fountain, was damaged by a self-styled performance artist, and that they’ve removed it from display to be repaired. What I want to know is:

1) Why can’t they just go buy a new urinal to replace the damaged one?

2) What sort of moron would pay 3 million euros for that thing when they could just go out and by their own for a fraction of that amount. Heck, I’d be willing to sell them a similar–nay, an identical–piece of Art^TM for a couple hundred thousand euros–a bargain for the discriminating Art^TM connesewer.