In The New York Times Magazine: A thing that sells itself

Posted by Rob Walker on May 9, 2010
Posted Under: Artists,Consumed,Things/Thinking

JUST PRICELESS:
Assessing the value of an art object that sells itself.

…. Even if [he] won the object, created by a young artist named Caleb Larsen, his ownership would be tentative: the technical innards of “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” carried a program that would relist the thing on eBay every week, forever.

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