Modern abstract art - really - Talk about a con job

[TlalocW]

9. Many years ago

I went to the Chicago Modrrn Art Museum. I was there with a student group from my college. The pieces I remember were
1. Vacuum cleaners in a display case by hack Jeff Koons
2. A room with 64 oil drums filled with water in an 8 by 8 square that reflected a giant back-lit photo hanging above them.
3. A constantly running film of an artist destroying a hotel room but running backwards. The artist looked like one of the girls on the trip.
4. A painting of a seascape with a couple sitting on a bench. The couple were reverse mermaids. I quite liked that one as it actually took talent to paint.
And my favorite
5. A pile of pieces of paper 2 feet by 1 foot with a black border running around the edge of each sheet. The placard invited viewers to take a few sheets as that turned the work into a dynamic, ever changing piece of art. I felt the museum missed out by not selling pads of sticky notes in smaller but same ratios of dimensions with a little black border running along the edge of each sheet. "Take the experience home!"