Fountain: Painters paint with brushes and on canvases that were made by others, using paint that they didn't mix. Are paintings therefore illegitimate?
It’s worth noting that some art historians contest whether DuChamp actually created the fountain or just accepted credit for it when the real artist wouldn’t
I saw it in the Pompidou Centre as part of an exhibit in... May 2004, I think? that changed the way I think about art exhibits permanently (in a good way)
and the way the PROGRESSION of them was lined up was such a one-two-three punch about "what is art?" that I've never forgotten it, & also, the staging of an exhibit is itself art
And then once when the artist was going to display it at another museum and didn't make it in time the museum directors assembled their own brick cube and he got mad and called it inauthentic
I remember a tumblr post about someone who decided to have a bit of a laugh at an art museum by putting a pair of glasses down on the floor as if they were an exhibit
bitch, what's the guy who makes my sandwich at a subway called
yeah if the place you're putting it is your grandma's living room, sure