Righto.
This morning I saw this year’s Turner Prize shortlist. One particular ‘work’ stuck out: a broken chair balanced on a stool.

I challenge you all to convince me that this is not simply a ridiculous mountain of talentless, pointless ‘Emperor’s-new-clothes’ shit, with zero artistic or technical merit, and that it would be better suited to a skip than a gallery – and the ‘artist’ locked up for fraud.

GO!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:51, 21 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

lololol your thread is shit.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)

When I said 'GO' it was specifically aimed at you.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:55, Reply)

I fucking hate shit like that
just because someone has been proclaimed an artist, by themselves or by others, they seem to be able to throw together some shit and have it called art.

That sort of thing has no merit whatsoever, regardless of whatever stupid fucking meaning they assign to it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)

I think you might be asking the impossible there.

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)

so why when I did this the other day I got slated. Delete then repost a thread
And you do it noone bats an eyelid! I call shennanigans.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:55, Reply)

You got slated because you are a paedo-homo.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)

If I was a paedo I def wouldn't bum a boy!

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:58, Reply)

Plus
leave Herman's Hermits out of this.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)

I don't think I will ever stop finding that funny

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)

again I don't know what you're talking about?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:58, Reply)

I cannot help it if you're thick, Bobbo.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:05, Reply)

if you're thick

I'm a miserable old condescending jizz magnet
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:06, Reply)

You don't like anything you might as well
lock yourself in a room of things you do like and just spaff yourself off til you die.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)

I had a friend who did an art degree and cobbled together some shit for his final year show
And he knew it was shit, but he said "We're marked on how we conceptualise it, so I'll be ok".
So he filled a room with a load of tat and videoed himself acting like a tit in town, but because his 'blurb' made it sound meaningful, he got a degree out of it and it was considered 'art'.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)

We bought a load of laptop trolleys for work
Not interesting at all but they had these flat bracing bars in them for transport that had to be removed. I decided to twist them all in the random spirals that stood up. I did this because I was bored. I then signed each one and put them on ebay as "Unique Sculpture by Cornish Artist" with a starting price of £5 most of them sold, people are stupid.
( Peej, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)

I went to art school.
It was quite funny trying to come up with stuff like that.
( girlinthehole, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:02, Reply)

The fact that it is being discussed...
...in places like B3ta makes this art more 'relevant' than a fantastic painting of a fruit-bowl.
Of course it is totally ‘Emperor’s-new-clothes’ shit but then again that can be a form of art in itself - how much nonsensical bollocks one can get the proles worked up about.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:05, Reply)

I once made a sculpture from a load of black plastic bags, a shower hose and a carboard box.
It was well received.
( girlinthehole, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)

If they produce enough of this stuff
then Charles Saatchi might bankrupt himself trying to buy it all. The resulting financial strife will mean his wife leaves him, to the great joy of all right-thinking straight men on the planet,

I don't mind 'art' of this sort, it's usually some form of visual gag rather than some profound statement on the nature of the human condition. If it makes me laugh or provokes some thought it's okay.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:14, Reply)

If Monty can't see the point - it must be good
Anything can be art. If it makes people looking at it/experiencing it think, then it has achieved its purpose.

If it is aethetically pleasing as well, then that's a bonus. You don't have to like it, you don't have to like the artist. They may well be trying it on, they may well be a talentless tosser, but good luck to them; would you rather be doing what they are? Probably not.

Leave them alone, they're harmless.

And I quite like they way it's a really crap chair, on top of a patched together stool. To me, it says: Stool (also the word for a poo) is a chair with no back; reminds me of chemistry lessons at school and sitting at the bar or in the kitchen. There's a funny old chair on top of it; why? It looks a bit crooked, a bit drunk. Oh, it's a chair, sitting on a stool - because a chair couldn't sit on a chair could it? etc etc.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 13:40, Reply)

After all that
are you going to tell us we've won Dusty Bin?
( Sunburn Go on.... It's character building!, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 17:20, Reply)