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wasoxygen  ·  3288 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Photography is an Art?

    I painted a wall in my home. It wasn't art.

Quiz: which is a hoax?

#1 Invisible Art

    Collectors are paying through the nose for the art of 27-year-old Lana Newstrom even though you cannot see any of it. “Art is about imagination and that is what my work demands of the people interacting with it. You have to imagine a painting or sculpture is in front of you”, the artist said.

#2 Nothing Art

    A prestigious group of curators and art historians have written to the gallery questioning why Abramović’s latest performance piece - due to open 11 June and about which she has repeatedly emphasised the importance of “nothing” - fails to acknowledge the influence of another contemporary artist who has also made “nothing” central to her work.

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