[MD] Tracey Emins take on what is Art

[Louise Pryor]

John mentioned in another post that my dad used to run a colour separations
business in the Bay Area. He told us a story last weekend about a time when
they were doing colour seps of some famous artist. His work was crayon on
long sheets of newsprint. Long slashes of color - some of the sheets of
paper were 20 feet long, and they had them rolled up and laying on tables,
waiting to be scanned on the huge scanners. The plant manager came in one
day and freaked out because these things were apparently worth hundreds of
thousands of $$ - they had 20 or so to scan, and they had to lock them up in
the safe. One of the jokers working there started tearing off long sheets of
newsprint of his own, slashing them with crayon, then he copied the
signature and added them to the stash in the safe. When the artists
representatives came to pick up his originals they were confused by how many
there were. But just shrugged and took them all.

So - how do you tell if that is a work of art on your wall, or just a joke?

Lu