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This is just performance art. Change my mind. Institutional critique has been the latest hotness for a while in the art world... this is just the next phase.

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Gluing yourself to art - so hot right now.

Gluing yourself to expensive cars, so cold and dark when employees leave.

https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/21/climate-protesters-glue-...

> a group called Scientist Rebellion took the sticky route when nine members glued their hands to the floor of the Porsche pavilion at Volkswagen's Autostadt museum in Wolfsburg

Gluing yourself to the floor.

I like to imagine at least one of the instances is insurance fraud, and the owners are finding a creative way to cash out. Much easier to convice someone to destroy it under the ploy of climate change than to steal it.

Destroy what, the glass protecting the painting?

Title is clickbait, no paintings were actually harmed in any way.

You're right. It's narcissistic, self-aggrandizing performance art for people who desperately seek attention and validation, without putting in effort or sustained, deliberate sacrifice.

It's funny that you can say that about pretty much all art.

> without putting in effort or sustained, deliberate sacrifice

Ah, the hubris of 21st century software engineers

"I/My kid/My dog could have done that" is something that is said to artists since the dawn of time.

It's a universal sentiment. I'm not saying it's true. I'm saying it is said.

No, because this is "art" involving destroying art.

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