Not to take the debate back to Greg’s and my epic battle over the Rose Art Museum, but this example of modern art is where most such “art” belongs – in the landfill.
What’s great about this is that it’s so innocuously obvious. The trash collectors of Albuquerque are charged with keeping the city’s streets clean of refuse. They pick up anything that looks unwanted, needless, pointless, ugly. And to be honest, New Mexico (while I love it) is not exactly known for its aggressiveness in sanitation procedures. The workers involved must have really thought this thing was a blight to cart it away.
I mean, look at that thing. $50,000 for that? And that’s in New Mexico money, which would make it about $1.2 million in New Jersey. Sheesh. I’m in the wrong business. Anyone got some fiberglass and the retrograde imagination of a particularly uncreative four-year-old?
