YES, BUT IS IT ART?
IT’S an artist’s job to push the boundaries. If it makes people stop and stare and ask the proverbial question, “But is it art?” you can bet that whatever it is – no matter how outrageous – has just sold for millions.
Think of Damien Hirst’s shark in formaldehyde, Andy Warhol’s soup cans and all those over-the-top abstracts that look as if they could’ve been plucked off the wall of a kindergarten class.
But many think a piece of art that recently sold for $69 million (more than R1 billion) on auction at Christie’s in New York makes all these other works seem
