Artists Buy Entire Contents of Convenience Store, Sell Items as Pieces of Art

This is one of the funniest things I've read on this blog in a long, long time. It'll be even funnier when the exhibit is sold out.

And no where I could find the total of that receipt.

these 'artists' are void of artistic value...

Duchamp would be proud.

So what was the artistic statement? that we are zombie consumers?

This isn't art, this is sad. But at the same time, the store owner made a killing.

And the lesson from this, presumably, is that if you have a lot of money and no talent you can call yourself an artist.

Watching the video, however, it's hard not to be pleased for the owner, who had the best sales day of his life. And as the artists' site says, "Having befriended Hercules after years of visiting his store, Jody learned that his 40-year plus business was at risk of shutting down by the end of the month."

Charity, then, but definitely not art.

You guys, maybe the gesture is the art. Maybe, gasp, it's even a means to an end. Who are you to define art? When was the last time you inverted a coke can that you bought from a man's failing store and managed to sell it for a hundred and fifty bucks so you could give the proceeds back? Oh, your four year old could do that? I just bet they could.

Put your money where your mouth is, next time.

And god, I have never seen so many vitriolic comments on a single youtube video. What is the world coming to that something that at worst can be called a lovely act of charity can garner so much hatred?

I went to a yard sale in Chicago a couple of years ago which I secretly think was an art exhibition. They were selling the oddest collection of things- wigs, musical instruments, movie reels, peg legs, typewriters, etc. There was not a single typical yard sale item like old dishes and clothes. The guys holding the sale were young (under 35), but all of the items were old. When I commented on the oddness of the items for sale and asked it the items were old props or something, they said that these were not props and acted like they couldn't understand why I would find their collection of items to be odd. I like to think that they had spent months gathering strange things to sell off as an artistic statement.

I see a new way to sell my useless crap. I will not call it a "stuff sale". Nor will I call it a " yard sale". I will simply call it an art installation. And instead of placing my ad in the paper in the classifieds. I will place it in the art shows section.
Ay plus plus.

This is the kind of idiotic thinking that is destroying "Art". There is no talent in this act, there is no integrity. There isn't even a valid statement.

This is despicable.

Do you ever wonder what you will tell your children and grandchildren about how "weird" things were when you were young?
"Grandpa, Grandma says you grew up when Hipsters were popular. What was it like?"
"Well I remember this one time a bunch of Hipsters thought it would be "Ironic" to buy everything in a convienience store."
"What happened to them?"
"After they ran out of money most moved back in with their parents till they could find real jobs."

the briefcase of cash was dissapointing... fill it with ones and put the twenties on top guys. come on.

Second dissapointment- It doesn't look like they bought the stuff behind the counter- the signs, the pictures... the stuff that made the place Hercules'. They might as well have gone to a Dollar General.

What the heck was kyle thinking when he first off charged the airline ticketsb for his friends to fly down to NYC AND EVEN WORST wrack up $10,000 in cash advances? Did your parents not teach you anything? This is what I would call bad debt. If you could not raise money with investors, don't you think maybe that was your sign that maybe you should rethink all of it? Store buy out okay idea, but poor vision and direction.