.
One of my pleasures at the end of each week is to log on to the BBC website and watch the latest edition of Newsbeat’s Odd Box hosted by Dominic Byrne - go to www.bbc.co.uk/news and search for Odd Box.
This week’s edition features new-born babies, swimming dogs, folk variously swimming in a New York dumpster, dressed as pirates, wandering around naked or making pig impressions. There is also a cross-dressing mayor, monks cleaning a huge statue of Buddha and a series of so-called sculptures by an Austrian artist. There are ten oddities shown each week and this week’s collection is no exception.
It is the sculpture exhibition in Salzburg that attracted my attention this week, for it consists of three dozen gherkins of various sizes standing upright on plinths which the artist explains are self-portraits.
You can make your own mind up about what this might mean but it never ceases to amaze me what some ‘artists’ get away with, and are presumably paid for, and how gullible the folk are who wander round galleries such as this one believing they are looking at art.
A gherkin for your thoughts!
.
One of my pleasures at the end of each week is to log on to the BBC website and watch the latest edition of Newsbeat’s Odd Box hosted by Dominic Byrne - go to www.bbc.co.uk/news and search for Odd Box.
This week’s edition features new-born babies, swimming dogs, folk variously swimming in a New York dumpster, dressed as pirates, wandering around naked or making pig impressions. There is also a cross-dressing mayor, monks cleaning a huge statue of Buddha and a series of so-called sculptures by an Austrian artist. There are ten oddities shown each week and this week’s collection is no exception.
It is the sculpture exhibition in Salzburg that attracted my attention this week, for it consists of three dozen gherkins of various sizes standing upright on plinths which the artist explains are self-portraits.
You can make your own mind up about what this might mean but it never ceases to amaze me what some ‘artists’ get away with, and are presumably paid for, and how gullible the folk are who wander round galleries such as this one believing they are looking at art.
A gherkin for your thoughts!
.
No comments:
Post a Comment