Random Flux

A judge in England has just awarded £350,000 in damages for the loss of a work of art that was mistaken for garbage and disposed of. Sounds to me like another example of a court missing a great opportunity to set a precedent. Things like this have happened before and my take on it is that the cleaning staff and building workers responsible for the “mistakes” were simply looking at the artists’ “work” with eyes unclouded by pseudo-intellectual hogwash.

If the judge had any sense he would rule that if art can be mistaken for rubbish then it probably is. The fact that the piece was disposed of as a matter of course with all the rest of the day’s detritus should be taken as proof that it was neither art nor valuable.