Saturday 3 May 2014

The cloth with a thousand uses

This one isn't strictly from a hotel room, but since this blog documents bad art I encounter on business trips I've stretched the definition a bit and included it anyway. In fact it's from the BA lounge at Chicago O'Hare's 5th terminal.


Now, is it just me, or has someone framed and mounted a J-Cloth and hung it on a wall?

Excitingly, this one has pencil notes at the bottom indicating that it is no. 29/60 in a limited series. There was another one a yard or so away - it was a blue J-Cloth. Congratulations to 'R. Imodel', then, for a Duchampian feat of dadaism, like the urinal placed in an art gallery, of taking an everyday found (or indeed in this case presumably *bought*) object, and turning it into 'art'.