A hapless Dutch museum-goer got himself into a sticky situation when he unwittingly waded into a modern art installation: a carpet of creamy peanut butter by artist Wim T. Schippers!
The hapless visitor somehow failed to spot the 14m expanse of edible goo at the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam, the second largest city in the Netherlands, Algemeen Dagblad reported overnight.
Bemused tourists watched as the man sank into the 1100 litres of peanut butter - enough to fill more than 2000 regular-sized jars. He has been asked to pay for the damage after leaving a trail of footprints.
"It is normal that people pay if they damage the art," spokeswoman Sharon Cohen told the Rotterdam-based newspaper.
I hope he only has to pay in a couple of jars of peanut butter!http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/man-wades-across-peanut-butter-art-exhibit/story-e6frflri-1226053768611 (Photo: Patrick Wenmakers over at ad.nl) - via Arbroath
The ones posted before 10:00?
It's what an artist flushes.
I can't wait until the insects find it...
Read the 2nd comment, and then follow the link in the first comment. Your comment #3 is safe and sound.
Wow! and a whole bunch of other comments!
I've never seen that happen before. Or maybe I have and I am going senile.
It was kind of magical in a quantum multiverse way.
According Gauldar, if it pisses off more than 1/2 the people who look at it, YES! If you only get 45%, try taking a dump on the floor. That should piss off more than 50% of the people who see it. ART!
http://artblogbybob.blogspot.com/2007/05/drawing-blank.html
Listening to art critics it seems to me that art is not what most people think it is.
If this is not a piece that's meant as a prank I think it is extremely stupid. Art critics or no. I would bring a toddler and let him go haywire! :D
Now it actually says something...
"Stay off the peanut butter!"
Take a number, I think a few artists have already done that.
@Craig
No, but it is a lawsuit.
@Splint Chesthair
Years ago there was an "artist" who was known for vomiting on paintings at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. As long as you thought of it first, it seems to be valid.
I blame Warhol, the antithesis of an artist, the destroyer of art.
Depends on who the better artist is. You, or my lawyer.