If you’ve ever taken a modern art history course then you know about this piece:

Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp.  If you don’t know about this piece learn more HERE.

Well, according to Artnet News, some performance artists actually urinated into the piece at a recent opening of Duchamps work at the Tate gallery in London. [HERE].  It’s all fantantiscally ironic and wonderful!  Duchamp takes a urinal and places it on a pedestal in a gallery setting , questioning the very nature of objecthood, galleries and art itself.  And now, all these years later, the piece (though it is a replica) is returned to the very state from which it came.  And the wonderful thing is, I think Duchamp would applaud the artists for doing so!  Because in so many ways, they are furthering the ideas that Duchamp founded much of his practice on – what makes an object a work of art, and what is it about a gallery or museum that actually grants the authority to make a delinieation between art objects and non art objects?

Love it.