A 17-year-old left his glasses on the floor at an art gallery in San Francisco and everyone crowded round to find a deeper meaning
A pair of glasses left on the floor became one of the main attractions at a gallery this week.
During a visit to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 17-year-old TJ Khayatan and his friends decided to play a practical joke on the rest of the visitors. The group had been wandering around the gallery and were unimpressed by some of the work on display – namely a “stuffed animal on a grey blanket”. Speaking to Buzzfeed Khayatan said: “Upon first arrival we were quite impressed with the artwork and paintings presented in the huge facility. However, some of the ‘art’ wasn’t very surprising to some of us.”
In a bid to prove that anything presented in an art gallery setting can become a postmodern masterpiece, Khayatan set the glasses on the floor and walked away. Then, sure enough, a number of visitors started to surround the ‘artwork’, staring pensively and taking pictures of what they thought was a part of the installation. What does it all mean?
LMAO WE PUT GLASSES ON THE FLOOR AT AN ART GALLERY AND... pic.twitter.com/7TYoHPtjP8
— teejay (@TJCruda) May 24, 2016
@TJCruda IM DEAD
— areej ~ pinned tweet (@kilamslou) May 24, 2016
@TJCruda modern art is fucking stupid but it's a perfect scam to gain money from idiot's.
— SquirrelHound (@SquirrelHound) May 24, 2016
The photos of the art prank have since gone viral, garnering around 45,000 RTs. While some tweeters are using the stunt as a reason to condemn the art world the prankster himself isn’t quite as bitter.
Khayatan, who also played a similar practical joke using a baseball cap and a bin, added: “I can agree that modern art can be a joke sometimes, but art is a way to express our own creativity. Some may interpret it as a joke, some might find great spiritual meaning in it. At the end of the day, I see it as a pleasure for open-minded people and imaginative minds.”