Life Imitating Art Imitating Meat
There’s pointless performance art done for the sake of being weird (such as anything involving the word vaginal) and then there’s the project “Wants for Sale” by an NYC couple, which is pure genius. They take an item someone might want, say a slice of pepperoni pizza, a plane ticket to Vegas, or an iPhone, paint it and price the small canvases at what the actual thing would cost—$3.50, $488.50 and $649.17 $432.42, respectively. Then the artists use the buyer’s money to purchase the item when the painting is sold. Their masterpiece? A 12″x12″ of a juicy steak that went for $18.39. We think they may need to aim a little higher and suggest the $175 foie gras and golden truffle mayonnaise topped burger at the Wall Street Burger Shoppe.
