Absolutely. I'd rather have this than any number of Damien Hirsts. Or Banksys.
YesIsn't art like this tax avoidance? You get an artist to make "art" for you, hire an appraiser to set the price for said "art" to what you want to avoid in taxes, buy "art", donate to a museum, and write it off as a charitable donation?
It's funny to think that someone will actually have to process this in an insurance department. Oh Lord.
This made chuckle way more then it should have.15.000$ isn't that much. If you buy a new car for 30.000$ you throw out the same amount as soon you leave the dealership.
So they're insufferable real-life trolls, basically.Here's the thing people always miss with these conceptual art pieces: the way it will get a bunch of people to say "wtf, that isn't art" is the point. People always act like the artist and buyer aren't "in on the joke" and are somehow unaware of what they're doing, when the entire point of the piece is to provoke the exact type of reaction that they're having.
It's funny to think that someone will actually have to process this in an insurance department. Oh Lord.
You mean Capitalism? I fucking hate that game!If this actually happens, then I could maybe come around on getting some enjoyment out of this rich people troll and flaunt their money and laugh at us poor people game.
Did you go to some Christian private school?This reminds me of an assignment I had one time in a religion class in high school...it was supposed to be a creative exercise (I guess) and we were to draw a new type of life form as if we were God.
I cynically scribbled at the bottom "My lifeform is invisible" and took a nap for the rest of the period.
I got a "100" for it
Just because they're aware of how stupid it is doesn't make it any less stupidHere's the thing people always miss with these conceptual art pieces: the way it will get a bunch of people to say "wtf, that isn't art" is the point. People always act like the artist and buyer aren't "in on the joke" and are somehow unaware of what they're doing, when the entire point of the piece is to provoke the exact type of reaction that they're having.
Kinda how I feel. Such art can be legit. And there's a lot of unseen stuff that goes into the artistic process, which isn't always apparent in the finished work.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I've never understood these posts re: charitable donations.Isn't art like this tax avoidance? You get an artist to make "art" for you, hire an appraiser to set the price for said "art" to what you want to avoid in taxes, buy "art", donate to a museum, and write it off as a charitable donation?
Eh you're missing a step. When it's later donated to the museum, the art auditor estimates the price to be higher than what it sold for (sometimes 100x or more the buying price) .Don't take this the wrong way, but I've never understood these posts re: charitable donations.
- Buy art for $18,000
- Donate to museum
- Deduct taxable income by $18,000
- Save a percentage (to be easy, lets say 50%) of $18,000 on taxes
- Still out $9,000.
- ???
- Profit?
I couldn't do it, I don't have a famous art name or connections to backup my bullshit with.
Best episode ever. Perfectly exposed everything wrong with these corny ass "artists" these days.
This kind of work has been done to death and is trite. Martin Creed won the Turner prize like 20 years ago with work that could be considered way more contemporaneous/relevant and that was 20 years ago! BTW his work includes a piece of blu-tak on a wall... and a scrunched up paper ball...