60 Minutes does Art Basel

I think I am going to become an "artist". $33k for some tangled extension cords. What a joke.

Wow!

But i can't seem to figure out wire my wires always get tangled up no matter how far apart i pack them...

I think I am going to become an "artist". $33k for some tangled extension cords. What a joke.

A joke, really? I dare you to put your money where your mouth is. Go for it. Be an "artist". I bet you $33K you never sell anything for $33K. You think its so easy, why don't you do it?

I think I am going to become an "artist". $33k for some tangled extension cords. What a joke.

A joke, really? I dare you to put your money where your mouth is. Go for it. Be an "artist". I bet you $33K you never sell anything for $33K. You think its so easy, why don't you do it?

I'm sure you've seen My Kid Could Paint That. I'll sum it up for those who haven't seen it, art = scam. If rich folks want to keep buying it, that's their right. I watched a show recently where a marketer said he can sell $3000 coffee makers without doing much work but selling a $30 dollar one is extremely hard..

Rich people in America will buy anything, including electrical cords wrapped together due to it's price tag and price tag alone. If suddenly all rich people were rounded up and exterminated, art would collapse over night, middle class America knows a scam when they see one.

well i'm not super rich and i would love to afford a lot of pieces i saw over Basel. art effects me in a huge way, as i know it does to gazillions of others

i watched that film, 'My Kid Could Paint That', and i certainly didn't walk away from that film identifying her and her family as a scam

some people just aren't wired to get that stuff

well i'm not super rich and i would love to afford a lot of pieces i saw over Basel. art effects me in a huge way, as i know it does to gazillions of others

i watched that film, 'My Kid Could Paint That', and i certainly didn't walk away from that film identifying her and her family as a scam

some people just aren't wired to get that stuff

The kids art was only worth money since he was a kid but when they suspected the father painted it then suddenly the art was worthless.. Why does it matter who painted it?

well i'm not super rich and i would love to afford a lot of pieces i saw over Basel. art effects me in a huge way, as i know it does to gazillions of others

i watched that film, 'My Kid Could Paint That', and i certainly didn't walk away from that film identifying her and her family as a scam

some people just aren't wired to get that stuff

The kids art was only worth money since he was a kid but when they suspected the father painted it then suddenly the art was worthless.. Why does it matter who painted it?

personally, i don't think it matters. of course i'm not the one writing the check either. as with any scene, people are going to be involved for different reasons. some for the flash. some for the cash. some because art affects them in a profound way. usually some sort of amalgamation of those three

but that's exactly what the film deals with: what is art?

I think I am going to become an "artist". $33k for some tangled extension cords. What a joke.

A joke, really? I dare you to put your money where your mouth is. Go for it. Be an "artist". I bet you $33K you never sell anything for $33K. You think its so easy, why don't you do it?

C'mon dude...look there were a lot of great works on display in the video...but that extension cord piece and the way the lady described it was a joke. It may not be easy to sell something "we" create for 33k, but I could whip that piece of garbage up in a garage in about 2 hours flat...I'd even throw in the Clark Griswald super tangled ball of Christmas lights too (little knot Russ). That piece was done by some Korean artist or whatever and I am sure the back story of his/her life make the Rich just fall over themselves with wanting to buy what looks to be someone's effort to clean out their attic.

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but that's exactly what the film deals with: what is art?

My rule of thumb is: anything I can't make myself. I can open my closet and find an impressive collection of tangled cords.

I'll sum it up for those who haven't seen it, art = scam. If rich folks want to keep buying it, that's their right. I watched a show recently where a marketer said he can sell $3000 coffee makers without doing much work but selling a $30 dollar one is extremely hard..

Rich people in America will buy anything, including electrical cords wrapped together due to it's price tag and price tag alone. If suddenly all rich people were rounded up and exterminated, art would collapse over night, middle class America knows a scam when they see one.

If it is such a great scam and so easy to make money at, why aren't you doing it? And don't tell me its because you have any ethics, that's pure BS.