This woman is wasted pushing a broom:
ROME — They say that art is in the eye of the beholder — and in the case of this cleaner, the installation was garbage. Literally.
The Museion Bozen-Bolzano museum in northern Italy said a cleaner mistook empty bottles of champagne, cigarette butts, colorful confetti and pieces of clothing scattered around one of its exhibition rooms for mess left behind by partygoers at an event.
“The cleaner was new, and was asked to clean up the room where we held a book presentation the night before,” the museum’s director Letizia Ragaglia told NBC News. “When she saw all the bottles of champagne in the foyer, she thought that must have been the right room.”
Instead, she “cleaned up” an installation by artists Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari called “Where shall we go dancing tonight,” which the museum’s website says is meant to represent hedonism, consumerism and financial speculation in the 1980s Italian political scene.
Great art transcends the artist. What passes for acceptable art these days drags us all down.
My favorite artist has been Caspar David Friedrich ever since I had a high school textbook with his Wanderer Above the Mists on the cover. My contention is that “art” is in the conveyance of feelings, and great art is the kind that goes further to elicit an unconscious “Wow”. Sadly, what passes for art these days rarely manages to surpass a flat “Wut”.
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” And a large percentage of them grow up and get jobs as museum curators.