American conceptual artist, Wayne Hill, had his artwork stolen and drunk. His art – a clear plastic bottle filled with water and situated on a pedestal, was priced at $69,700 (\u00a340,000). Shown at an arts festival in Devon, England, the work was apparently misidentified by some thirsty person as being… a clear plastic bottle filled with water situated on pedestal.<\/p>\n
Mr. Hill\u2019s artwork had the implausible title of Weapon of Mass Destruction<\/em>, and he claims the clear plastic bottle was filled with melted ice from Antarctica. Hill alleges his artwork took a year to create, and that its function was to confront people with the supposedly quickly thinning Antarctic ice sheet.<\/p>\n “The concept is to take something as dangerous as that and to bring it immediately into somebody\u2019s presence,” he said. According to Hill, his Object d\u2019 Art was earning quite a reputation, and it was scheduled for other exhibitions later in the year, that is\u2026 until some parched character gulped it down. It\u2019s a shame really, that people can\u2019t tell the difference between an ordinary bottle of water and a bottle of water that\u2019s been elevated to high-art.<\/p>\n That being the case, Hill might as well continue his sham by visiting a local convenience store to pick up another clear plastic water bottle. But he better hurry, the weather\u2019s been rather warm, and the art may be out of stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American conceptual artist, Wayne Hill, had his artwork stolen and drunk. His art – a clear plastic bottle filled with water and situated on a pedestal, was priced at $69,700 (\u00a340,000). Shown at an arts festival in Devon, England, the work was apparently misidentified by some thirsty person as being… a clear plastic bottle filled with water situated on pedestal….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postmodernism-remodernism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}