At 8:52 AM +0000 2/10/05, Jean Nathan wrote:
Nicky wrote:

<Oh what a relief, I'm clearly not the only one that thinks this piece of
trash - take that how you will (didn't it also list on the bed cover all the
men she'd slept with?) >

She did an embroidery of the names of all the men she'd slept with as a
separate "work of art". A lot of embroidery is wonderful, but this wasn't.
There's really been some absolute rubbish classed as art, particulatly for
the Turner Prize - like Damien Hirst's (sp?) half a sheep/cow? in
formaldehyde (just show how impressed I was with that) or the empty room
with a light switch for the viewer to turn on.

Am I strange in accepting as art some of the "off-the-wall" things done with
lace in respect of materials, stitch arrangement or shape, but not a pile of
bricks or an unmade bed?

No, I don't think you're strange, Jean. I visited an exhibit at the Women in Arts Museum in Washington, DC, once, and one of the "artworks" was a small room filled with dust bunnies! Yes, it was kind of fascinating to see them swirl around as people passed through the room, but *dust bunnies* as art???? I went home and never felt better about my lack of discipline in housekeeping. :-)


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