We Prefer to Think of Wednesday One-Liners as "Found Art"

Girl on cell: So I bought this air conditioner for my living room, and it's entirely too large for me to install by myself, because it weighs 78 lbs. No, seriously, I cannot even get it out of the box. I know--for the time being I'm just referring to it as a Duchamp "readymade." Ew! Don't you call me bohemian!

--19th & 6th

Art professor: You should look at Picasso and Matisse. These people will be more important to you than your family. Cousin Philly. I had a cousin Philly, and I loved him very much. But he's dead now.

--Pratt Institute

Overheard by: traPt

Lawyer to friend, about Vincent van Gogh: You know, I could have gotten him disability.

--Van Gogh Exhibit, MoMA

Woman, discussing gallery: It was all modern stuff--but not, like, the kind of modern art that children can do.

--20th & 5th

Tourist boy: You can see his penis! It's not art if you can see his penis!

--Petrie Court, Metropolitan Museum of Art