Modern Art's Ongoing Obsession with Excrement

Tom Friedman is a successful artist, so successful, in fact, that he thinks his excrement is art. Tony Christie's agreed to try to sell a two-foot white cube with a barely visible black speck of Friedman's excrement. How is that art? Let Friedman explain:

"I wanted to find a material that you could present the smallest amount of and it would have the most impact,"Friedman says of the piece. "I was really interested in minimalism then and with minimalism there's this sense of purity, of clean forms and geometry. I really liked the juxtaposition. The cube is logical and clean. The feces is regressive and insane."

Things haven't gone well for the crap cube. The first time he exhibited it, someone thought it was a chair and sat on it. The excrement was gone (gotta believe the sitter wasn't too happy when he found out). So, says Friedman, "I had to go home and make some more."

And then at the Christie's auction no one bid the minimum asking price of $45,000.00.

Those modern art lovers, they have standards. You can't always see them, but if you smell hard enough, they're discernible.

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