An empty canvas titled "Take the Money and Run" was sold to a Danish art museum for $84K, a can of shit was sold to British museum for $40K, and of course, there is the Marchel Duchamp classic: The urinal on a pedestal, titled "Fountain". Is this even art any more? How did we get here? What took us from Rembrandt to putting goldfish into blenders and calling it a day?
If you've ever been bewildered by a senior art show or a forray into a modern art museum, this is the episode for you. It's based on a Stephen Hicks essay called "Why art became ugly: From modern to postmodern art".
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