"unbelievable as it might seem to those unfamiliar with the world of modern art, the self-styled artist piero manzoni canned, labelled, exhibited and sold his own excrement (90 tins of it) in the early 1960s. the tate has recently acquired no 68 of this canned edition for the sum of £22,300. they have coyly catalogued it as a “tin can with paper wrapping with unidentified contents”. none of those who collected manzoni’s tins has, as far as i know, tested the veracity of their contents, but then, who would want to?"



gleaned from an article titled "why it's ok not to like modern art." and in the interests of promoting art, the top one hundred video games. ever.