It doesn't come filled with $100 bills. So why is this box worth $30,000?
Because it's not just a cardboard box. It's a work of art.
Titled "Brillo 5," the box is the work of London artist Gavin Turk, who -- along with such figures as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin -- is part of the Young British Artists scene that emerged out of Charles Saatchi's famed gallery in the 1990s.
Now, it's expected to fetch the huge sum at Christie's postwar- and contemporary-art sale on Sept. 23.
According to Christie's, the bronze piece "is an ironic and ambiguous work that is essentially a copy of a cardboard box."
Post subject: Re: a fool and his money are soon parted..
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:28 pm
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John Lennon would have thought this was brilliant....
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