Is this art? (Picture: Twitter/@TJCruda)

Ah, the classic ‘put a random object in an art gallery and wait for people to lose their minds over its greater meaning’ prank. It shouldn’t work. But it does – every. damn. time.

And are we really surprised, considering there’s currently an exhibition in London that’s just a closed gallery you can’t actually enter? And a massive pile of oranges currently sitting in the Tate?

One man proved once and for all that we are all truly lost, confused people wondering around galleries desperately pretending that we know what art is.

According to a Twitter moment from Tuesday night, a teenager named TJ Khayatan and his friends pranked a load of cultural types by leaving a pair of glasses on the floor of a museum.


LMAO WE PUT GLASSES ON THE FLOOR AT AN ART GALLERY AND… pic.twitter.com/7TYoHPtjP8 — teejay (@TJCruda) May 24, 2016

People reacted pretty much the way you’d expect. They stared. They pondered. They took photos. It was magical.

I was blind for a good ten minutes but it was worth it https://t.co/P1NURue3mX — galaxy (@k_vinnnn) May 24, 2016

But here’s a question: through gaining a reaction, does a pair of glasses left on the floor become art? What is art, really?

Hmm.

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