LRC links today to a story about a work of art being mistaken for trash and thrown away. This is by no means the first time in the recent history of modern art that such a thing has happened. Here’s Dave Barry: “Another important British artist is Damien Hirst. In 1995 he also won the Turner Prize, for an entry that consisted of – I am not making any of this up – a cow and a calf cut in half and preserved in formaldehyde. Last October, a London gallery threw a party to launch an exhibition by Hirst. When … Continue reading That Pile of Trash is My Artwork