If not chair. Why chair shape?
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Because it's 'art'
They said it was art
But it crumbled before my fart
(Sorry)
Fart is art when it's a performance. But it can only be done by fartists.
At least it's a dumb piece of art. Like, wow, you covered a chair in crystals. You're like a 13 year old girls jacket in the 80's.
More like cardboard formed like a chair
I like it. Let's get philosophical on this shit. What even is a chair?
Nowhere does it mention the nationality of the tourists, but somehow we all immediately know..
US, UK, or China, there's no way it's anything else
It's very likely it wasn't someone from the US. We got such a stigma from back in the 70's to 90's that Americans seldom behave like jackass's in Europe anymore.
Lmao wtf? I may be stoned, but you're tripping.
Do you live in an alternate timeline or something?
Look it up yourself. Chinese tourists actually took the top spot quite a while back.
But the artist said he could see a “positive side” to the incident. “It’s like a kind of performance. Ordinary people can do it too, not just artists.”
That's a healthy approach.
Artist speak for: this is so fucking funny I'll allow it😂😂
The video shows, it isn't that they accidentally sat in a seat, but they were posing as if they were going to sit on it, but fell back into it.
To me it appears that he didn't sit on it at first, but then changed his mind and sat down. I'm convinced that what you saw as him falling onto it is because he sat on it and then the legs buckled. The buckling caused him to fall further back, because the legs were stronger when they were straight.
Yes, but that headline would get less clicks.
The museum is mad that they left after that, but honestly I'd be pretty terrified going up to them and mentioning that I'd fallen into a priceless artifact and broken it. In theory, they didn't put up glass, and as professionals knew that means there's a risk accidents could happen. In practice, maybe they're short on funds and whatever bureaucrat sees suing me as a way out.
A chair frame covered in glued on glass rhinestones doesn’t really sound priceless. It looks like something you’d buy at TJ Maxx.
Not even a chair frame, but likely a wire frame, probably covered in foil and then crystals. That’s a common method for art pieces. This wasn’t a chair covered in crystals, but a ‘delicate internal structure’ in a chair shape.
e: that’s probably also why it was fairly easy to fix: re-bend the wire, then replace any crystals that fell of. This idiot is lucky he didn’t get a stabilising rod up his proverbial.
I mean, there is that too, lol. I just have better things to do than start a totally subjective art argument.
Also to that point, they've already fixed it. Which might be why they didn't worry about protecting it that much in the first place.
It's fairly clear that he meant to touch and put at least some weight on it on his 2nd attempt. He only stumbled after the chair gave way.
My brother is one of the more intelligent and scientifically-minded people I know, but I'll never forget the time we went to the Detroit Institute of Arts and he got yelled at for touching too many exhibits.
Curiosity is integral to being scientifically minded.
True. You don't need wisdom to be a good scientist.
"and off they go. Indifferent to what happened"
Not sure about that. The guy was shitting bricks and they scurried off pretty fast.
They better not put up a crystal-covered toilet.
Having found a picture of the chair before it was sat on, this man did the world a favor. It looks like someone bedazzled a crappy chair with very over priced crystals. This chair trades on names like Swarofki and Van Gogh but has no artistic merit of its own.
And before some says "art is subjective" please note my subject view above.
slop art