re: #459 000G

It’s not disingenious if there are no credible counterclaims.

What the hell? The obvious counterclaim is that the pieces really were found art, that the Mona Lisa really was, as he said, a poster-copy he drew on.

Why on earth do you not think those are credible counterclaims?

So what’s your reason for not being convinced and not believing it were “a greater prank” if true?

People have said they were with him when they bought the urinal, for example.

And the urinal doesn’t deviate particularly from urinals in general. Nor does the Mona Lisa with mustache, beyond the mustache, deviate interestingly from the Mona Lisa. If he did hand-make the urinal, kind of pointless; he could have just bought one nearly identical.

Do you think it would be an even even greater greater prank if you were convinced they were actually hand-fabricated by him but then you found out that claim was a carefully orchestrated rumor he’d arranged to have put about, and they really were found objects?