Whenever I go to museums, I like to pause in front of stuff that definitely isn't art and talk about the "art" and how it makes me feel just to make the other people think they're missing something.
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@Alice Once in the Zachęta gallery in Warsaw the husband has been taking photos of beautiful light switches, the old gallery guard lady protested with "this isn't art"!
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It could be fun to play museum guard for some of these things
@Alice Once in school, teacher gave us 90 min. to draw a picture on the theme "Me at School". So I went to the student council room (my favorite room there) and drew it. After about 85 minutes my picture was finished, but unfortunately, it didn't include any people. I'm not good at drawing people.
So, in the last few minutes, I just drew a hole in the floor and a hand sticking out of it.
The teacher was deeply impressed bc of the meaning he could see in the hole and the hand 
@Alice What do you mean, it isn't art? Everything can be art, depending on how you look at it. Random objects are the best art ever.
@Alice Next time bring some didactic panels along with names like "Untitled Contemplation #45" so you can stick them to the wall and keep people guessing long after you've been there
@Alice but seriously, that drinking fountain photo IS art.
there has certainly been enough modern art that had things like bricks on the floor, a collection of mops/brooms, etc. that were supposed to be exhibits. why not expand the field? :)
Too tired to make up an equivalent Thomas the Tank Engine story this time. I'll see if I get inspired later.
@Alice Hah hah. "No, that's a trash can" -- Wonder Woman.
https://www.wordingart.com/2020/12/wonder-woman-1984-trash-can-art/
@Alice they're art, though, & your photos have made them moreso. :)
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This is SO YOU, Alice, and so delightful.
You are one of us, one of us!
@Alice with eyes, a pout, and a pointy hat.
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Lol, reminds me of Red Dwarf
"This piece in particular is stunning, its lines, its form... Pray, what do you call it?"
"The... Light switch"
"The light switch..."
"Yes"
"I can't... Buy it then?"
"Not really, I need it to turn the lights on and off"
"Its a pity because if it was, it could be considered... A masterpiece."
Season 6, episode 2 Legion
This was essentially my Intermedia Art class in college. I put a piece of tape around one of my bottles of red OPI nail polish, submitted it as “found art,” titling it “Passion, Contained.”
I received an A grade on the piece.
@Alice I adore your whimsy. It makes me smile every time. Thank you for brightening my timeline.
And your photo composition is quite good, nice work.
@Alice and all of these things are art in how they reflect, expose, and make a statement about the whole culture and environment that created them and placed them there. Maybe they are missing something. Maybe we all are.
I heard about someone who set up a laser across the street to project a red dot through a window onto the wall of an art gallery. Then they went inside and put their own information plaque next to the dot, making it an art piece.
@Alice You thought step stool, I thought hand truck until I noticed the wheels and bottom plate are missing. Either way, it's a controversial sculpture.
@Alice "this piece is symbolic of man's need to escape homogeny, to be reborn through the fires of hell..."
"...sir, that's a fire alarm."
"IT'S INTERPRETIVE!!!!"
@Alice The art museum version of starring at something imaginary in the sky while making expressions... just so people look for it.
@Alice Next level "stop and smell the flowers" 💐 ❤️ 
If art is made by talking about it, then you're an artist. If nobody talked about the Mona Lisa, the Louvre would be using it as a draught excluder, probably to plug that hole where thieves got in to steal the bling. It's all in the definition.
@Alice For decades I’ve wanted to make a gallery exhibition of different fire extinguishers.
A fire should of course break out there too, as part of the show.
@Alice A friend and I did this at the museum in Oakland back in the late 60’s. We were admiring a coiled up fire hose in a red cabinet on the wall in the art section. People gathered behind us. I started thinking about making one of those little cards they put next to the art piece describing it, and sticking it on the wall there. But I was young and easily distracted, so I didn’t do it. Maybe that cabinet is still there…
