Christian Boltanski, French Artist, Uses 30 Tons Of Clothes To Build A Mountain

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Using 30 tons of discarded pants, shirts, jackets and dresses, acclaimed artist Christian Boltanski has created a morbid artwork in New York's Park Avenue Armory called "No Man's Land" that he says addresses "chance, destiny and the finger of God."

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Comments

[pointy]

02:23 PM on 05/20/2010

wow! what a bunch of philistines commenting on this page. I'm not defending the art here but please try to refrain from idiocy and fearful judgement on something you clearly have no ability to comprehend. perhaps educating yourselves instead of blathering on senselessly about an art exhibition would be a better use of your time. Reading your comments is like hearing someone suggest that NASA should put the thrusters at the front end of the space shuttle.

[Mark Harker]

05:25 PM on 05/19/2010

An incredible waste of time. This takes no talent. it's not art.

[MrsFreeze]

09:58 AM on 05/19/2010

yes, let's do construct a mountain of clothes to discuss the finger of God, rather than be the hand of God and give them to people who could use them.

[JTCan]

10:32 AM on 05/19/2010

well said...thank you SO much...

[PlayTOE]

04:03 AM on 05/19/2010

A pile of clothes is not art, it's a pile of clothes.

[amber15]

07:14 PM on 05/18/2010

okay, how'd he get away with this??????

lax regulations? security guards asleep at the helm? I mean who would even agree to such a blatant monstrosity?

[PartOfTheSolution]

06:18 PM on 05/18/2010

I've done hundreds of portraits, illustrations and a graphic novel, but don't have an article on HuffPost about my work. Can this "artist" draw a straight line? Since when is a purely social statement a WORK OF ART?

[Eyeful]

07:48 PM on 05/18/2010

This is not a purely social statement any more than it is a work of art.

HuffPo linked this in 2 places, under 'entertainment' and in 'green', but IMP it's neither. I'm becoming dissatisfied with their mixing tabloid sensationalism, opinion and hard news inside each category.

[Starling5]

06:04 PM on 05/18/2010

This is an obscenity.
How many BOOMS could have been made out of these clothes, to help divert the oil in the Gulf from invading its coastline?
Humanity has gone completely insane.....

[Eyeful]

05:06 PM on 05/18/2010

Piling up 30 TONS of discarded clothing when desperate people in countries like Haiti can actually use them is a derogatory attitude toward humanity, compassion and enviornmentalism.

[CreativeKitty]

04:50 PM on 05/18/2010

HEY! Thats my new pink romper!!!

[billshut]

04:49 PM on 05/18/2010

An "artist" uses garbage to make a mountain of garbage and it's marrrrrvelous. This is what happens when you have socialized health care and you don't have to work to pay for it.

Get a job dude.

[BlueSkyPilot]

04:46 PM on 05/18/2010

Surely this and other worthy exhibts have been financed by Tax Exempt Bonus Donation Derivitives sold by Gold Sacks and the Wall street Banksters.

[Moshe]

04:12 PM on 05/18/2010

I'm going to have to call and apologize to my college roommate.

Turns out his closet was actually art.

[GatoPreto]

03:55 PM on 05/18/2010

Such incredible waste while millions are homeless with barely the shirt on their backs. His parents must be really proud.