Context is everything
Continuing on the What is Art theme…
Cat and Girl (or, at least, Girl) contends that “High Art is by definition what’s on gallery and museum walls.”
She makes an important point, that the context of the creation is just as important as the creation itself. Thus, a sink in someone’s bathroom is just a sink, a utilitarian object. A sink in a museum, with a label, is art. And a sink in a museum bathroom, with an added label, is… guerrilla art?
And one man’s trash is another man’s highly regarded, uh… pile of garbage.
(by Shigeo Fukuda, [ via ] (and here)