some could claim that a joke on modern art is art itself.

It's pretty obvious that it's either a prank or performance art based on the works around them. Maybe they should have done it around some more contemporary works.

In an attempt to prank the visitors to an art museum, they became art themselves. How fitting.

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I recently viewed a documentary on Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic. http://videosift.com/video/Marina-Abramovic-The-Artist-is-Present-Trailer

Ah, the enlightened

Declaring it a 'prank' seems like an attempt to remove it from 'art'. Which seems weird, because isn't that what the creators of this video were trying to do? Which renders the whole thing 'meh'...

Mustn't confuse them with Gilbert & George.

This is brilliant.

There is something to be said for not doing things the way people say they are to be done, but that doesn't mean everything that's done wrong is automatically great.

Is Duchamp's The Fountain art? Yes... bad art. Art that has nothing to offer; Art that screams "I'm so shitty, I'm amazing."

Van Gogh also did things "wrong" but in doing so he captured and conveyed valuable things in a way that was new to the world. He poured his own tortured mind into his work and made it beautiful. It's a shame nobody was willing to recognize it until well after he was dead.

Sometimes the best you can do isn't very good and just you have to accept it. Find somewhere else to shine.