Modern art gets a bad rap, and deservedly so, but there's a lot of legitimately cool stuff out there too.
Modern art gets a bad rap, and let's be honest, a lot of it is deserved.
While the "I could do that" crowd might be taking things a bit far, some "artists" definitely push the boundaries in weird directions for questionable reasons. But other modern art is legitimately cool, and we have to remember that the purpose of art is to elicit emotion, not for us to like whatever emotion that is.
Here are 20 weird and wacky galleries, pieces, and concepts, that are making the most out of being "modern" art.
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Dom Słowa Polskiego is an art exhibition program housed in Poland’s former largest polygraph plant.
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When art meets taxidermy.
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The Feuerle Collection in Berlin displays a wide range of work in a World War II-era telecommunications bunker.
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The ‘United Nations: United Colors' Exhibit by Wenda Gu features a 420 pound structure made of human hair.
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Banner Repeater is a contemporary art space on the train platform of the Hackney Downs station in East London.
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Nevada Museum of Art’s “Late Harvest” exhibition.
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Stroboskop art space in a garage in Warsaw.
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Bold Tendencies, Peckham car park’s rooftop sculpture park in London.
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Anna Uddenberg is a Swedish artist, this is her “Continental Breakfast” exhibit showcasing live “sculptures of hypersexualized and overextended faceless female figures.”
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London’s The Crypt Gallery showcases contemplative art in a space that was originally used as a coffin burial area.
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Berlin’s Konig Gallery displayed space-based art in a former church.
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Berlin-based artist Hans Hemmert threw a party where guests wore shoe-extenders to make them all the same height of two meters.
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Salvador Dalí's Lobster Telephone.
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“It's things like this that make me hate ‘modern art.’"
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Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience is a traveling exhibit that uses digital boards to immerse viewers in Van Gogh’s designs.
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“Selfish” was a photograph exhibit at The Dazed Gallery in London, which aimed to show work from photographers “whose practices are so resolutely at odds with each other that the very idea of a ‘group’ show seems kind of absurd,” according to Dazed Digital’s John-Paul Pryor.
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Philip John Luscombe designed this instant camp fire called the Kinderlite,’ for the Museum of Modern Britain’s 2050 retrospective exhibition; an exhibition pretending to look back at today from the year 2050.
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The Designhaus Bicycle Exhibition was a 100-day exhibition in Eindhoven, Netherlands, that celebrated the Dutch’s love of bicycles.
