There's a phenomena that I often see with style, that I cal the Pink Flamingo effect. It goes like this:
1 plastic pink flamingo in your house is kitschy
A bunch of pink flamingos is stupid
A million pink flamingos is art.
Posted on February 23, 2006
If a pile of bricks can make into the Tate as art, then why can't a million pink flamingo's be art also. Though the purchasing of the "bricks" was a marketing coup. It put the Tate squarely on the map, through the curiosity of the general public and it's expenditures in seeing those curious bricks. I doubt if purchased today it would raise more than an eyebrow.
Posted by Paul J Carroll on February 25, 2006
