Piece Of Trash On Museum Floor

Allison meier april 24 2017.

Piece of trash on museum floor. Fittingly enough molina calls it the treasures in the trash museum. New yorkers are surrounded by so many nice things they tend to. It just felt like the obvious thing to do. Harris the new york times.

Sparked by a recent study on trash offshore of southern california. Tentative visitors quickly treated the unassuming er spectacle with the requisite respect owed to any duly accredited piece of conceptual or minimalist art. A couple of teenagers at san francisco s museum of modern art decided to place a pair of eyeglasses on the floor in one of the rooms just to see what would happen. Sanitation workers aren t allowed to bring items home so molina started the treasures in the trash museum from his office locker room in 1981 the new york post reports.

Some people s art is other s trash. The collection now includes tens of thousands of items said belinda mager assistant director of public affairs for the nyc department of sanitation. Video researchers tagged every piece of trash seen during the deep sea dives cataloguing more than 1 500 items in all. Tucked away on the second floor of an east harlem garage the treasures in the trash museum features items saved from the landfill over three decades by nelson molina.

In this case however the trash is the art.