I don't get art

[Pondlife]

BBC News - Marina Abramovic: Audience in tears at 'empty space' show

Audience members were moved to tears at the opening of Marina Abramovic's new show at London's Serpentine Gallery.

The performance artist is spending 512 hours interacting with the public at the show, held in three completely empty rooms.

Phones, cameras and even watches are banned, as Abramovic takes people by the hand and encourages them to spend time focusing on the bare white walls.

but then

Both shows lack the startling drama of her earlier performances, including one in which she systematically stabbed her hand with knives.

In another, she whipped herself, before cutting a five-point star in her stomach with a razor blade and lying on a cross made of ice.

Once, she nearly died after lying in the middle of a burning cross made of petrol-soaked sawdust. On another occasion, she allowed an audience member to hold a loaded gun to her head.

WTF!!!

[Platypus]

bulltulip masquerading as art

[minestrone]

I have desk space in an artists studio at the moment (it was dirt cheap).

You see some amount of tulipe getting wheeled in and out, croissants varnished and stuck to a wall, that kind of stuff.

[Pogle]

I went to art collage at 18.
Had a bloody marvellous time.
HTH.

[Mich the Tester]

I went to art collage at 18.

I made a collage once. I was about 8. Lots of glue and colourful paper involved.

[BrilloPad]

Both shows lack the startling drama of her earlier performances, including one in which she systematically stabbed her hand with knives.

In another, she whipped herself, before cutting a five-point star in her stomach with a razor blade and lying on a cross made of ice.

Once, she nearly died after lying in the middle of a burning cross made of petrol-soaked sawdust. On another occasion, she allowed an audience member to hold a loaded gun to her head.

I once paid £500 for that at Kings Cross.

Are you saying I could have got an "artist" to do it for less?

[Pogle]

Ok so I cant spell, I'm on a train, on me phone with no spellchecker.
Apologies for being crap.
Now dont you be getting grumpy with me just cos the permies pished you off.
Have a hug.

[Mich the Tester]

Ok so I cant spell, I'm on a train, on me phone with no spellchecker.
Apologies for being crap.
Now dont you be getting grumpy with me just cos the permies pished you off.
Have a hug.

[vetran]

Ok so I cant spell, I'm on a train, on me phone with no spellchecker.

Your grammar is rubbish as well unless you are fourteen.

[Mich the Tester]

BBC News - Marina Abramovic: Audience in tears at 'empty space' show





but then


WTF!!!

Did she invoice for it?