Friday 4 August 2006

Pompidou Centre Whoopsie

Whoops! © Coxsoft Art
The Pompidou Center in Paris has belatedly admitted it accidentally destroyed two works of alleged art and damaged a third, borrowed from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York. "It just fell of the wall, guv!" The last time we mentioned the Paris Pomp. was when some art lover took a hammer to the world's most insanely overpriced loo. As the Pomp. houses so-called "Modern Art", whatever falls off its walls is no great loss. Coxsoft Art has taken a liberty with Peter Alexander's 1984 Untitled, because his 1971 Untitled is one of the total writeoffs. It shows how little the artist thinks of his works if he can't be bothered to name them. Ironically, one of LACMA's current shows is Material Matters: the toughest glass show in town. It needs to be if you're going to lend it to the Pomp.

2 Comments:

At 4/8/06, Blogger weggis said...

If 1984 Untitled is anything to go by 1971 Untitled is no loss!

Perhaps there is a French version of Coxsoft Art who is into "direct action"?

 
At 4/8/06, Blogger Unknown said...

Believe it or not, the 1984 Untitled actually looks more artistic with my whoops across it! Irony of ironies, a Google ad. for the Pompidou Centre just arrived on my blog! Don't tell Google I've been slanging it off!

 

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