STATE OF THE ART

You've got to be Jewish
to have talent like this

News of the Weird
Shepherd Express,   Milwaukee  Thursday, June 23, 2005

NEW YORK—In May, at the annual spring auction at Christies's, Massachusetts artist Tom Friedman managed to sell a piece consisting of an ink squiggle on a 12-by-18-inch piece of white paper (described in the Christie's catalog as "starting an old dry pen on a piece of paper"). It sold for $26,400, according to a Washington Post report.

Friedman was less successful in offering a 2-foot white cube that contained, on one surface, a tiny speck of his own feces, for which he expected an opening bid of $45,000, but got no takers.


Enj-OY! It's why they're called "Chosen."