Irony so strong you can pick it up with a magnet

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Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty | Art and design | The Guardian

[Aurel]

His artwork must have looked like a pile of crap

[A930Rocket]

I would have cleaned it too.

Or maybe just replaced it with a new 5 gal pail.

I'm just not the artsy type.

[Mark Henry]

It sometimes amazes me what passes as "art".

My bet is the owner is smiling ear to ear as he's going to collect the insurance money on that POS.

[masraum]

I like some of the details at the end of the article best.

If Kippenberger is now turning in his grave, he may find solace in the fact that he is not the only artist to have his works ruined by cleaners. In 1986, a "grease stain" by Joseph Beuys valued at about €400,000 was mopped away at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf.

At least the artwork didn't end up in a skip. In 2004, a cleaner at Tate Britain in London threw away part of a work by another German artist, Gustav Metzger, after mistaking it for rubbish. The cleaner failed to realise that a plastic bag containing discarded paper and cardboard was an integral part of Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art, and not just some litter. The bag was later recovered, but it was too damaged to display, so Metzger replaced it with another bag.

Germans are not the only victims. In 2001, Damien Hirst lost a pile of beer bottles, ashtrays and coffee cups, meant to represent the life of an artist, when a caretaker at the Eyestorm Gallery in London cleared it away.

[Mark Henry]

From the same article:

Germans are not the only victims. In 2001, Damien Hirst lost a pile of beer bottles, ashtrays and coffee cups, meant to represent the life of an artist, when a caretaker at the Eyestorm Gallery in London cleared it away.

Heck they can find that at my neighbors back shed every weekend.