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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Legion": Rimmer, pretending he knows about art to impress Legion, complements on one piece:
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'''Legion''': The light switch.
'''Rimmer''': The light switch?
'''Legion''': Yes.
'''Rimmer''': I couldn't buy it off you then?
'''Legion''': Not really. I need it to turn the lights on and off. }}
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "City of Death": The Doctor and Romana leave the TARDIS at the Galerie Denise Rene. When they return, there are two people standing in front of it...
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'''She:''' Yes, I see what you mean. Divorced from its function and seen purely as a piece of art, its structure of line and colour is curiously counterpointed by the redundant vestiges of its function.
'''He:''' And since it has no call to be here, the art lies in the fact that it ''is'' here.
''(The Doctor, Romana, and Duggan run into the TARDIS, which dematerialises.)''
'''She:''' Exquisite. Absolutely exquisite. }}
** And ''[[Doctor Who
* ''[[Murphy Brown]]'': Eldin (Murphy's live-in housepainter) gets a show at an art gallery. At the opening people come in to find a completely empty room. They discuss whether they themselves are the art or what, but then Eldin points out that he painted a mural [[Behind the Black|on the ceiling]].
* Parodied by [[The Chaser's War on Everything|The Chaser]], who attempted to demonstrate that it was possible to dump all kinds of junk in an art gallery without people noticing: tree clippings ("Lord of the Plants"), an old computer, a broken vacuum cleaner (unsucessfully), an old mattress (unsuccessfully, though one woman spent some time admiring it) and two garbage bags ("Fun Dip").
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'' got "[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/08/30/0407-new-exhibition-piece/ New Exhibition Piece]".
{{quote|'''Sandra''': Today I learned that modern art is indistinguishable from a janitor who’s fixing the air conditioner.
'''Larisa''': Are you sure it wasn’t a piece of performance art? }}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': In the episode "Mom and Pop Art," Mr. Burns mistakes Homer's failed attempts at D.I.Y. crafting for fine art and buys them for large amounts of money.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Mother's Day," the cast visits a wax museums of famous historical robots:
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'''Janitorbot:''' I'm the janitor. I'm trying to take a nap here.
'''Fry:''' I'm sorry, I-I thought you were made of wax.
'''Janitorbot:''' I ''am'' made of wax, what's it to you?
'''Fry:''' I mean I thought you were one of the wax robots.
'''Janitorbot:''' Is there some reason a robot made of wax can't take a nap standing up in the middle of a bunch of wax robots? Or does that ''confuse'' you?
[Fry backs away slowly.] }}
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* An "illicit art mistaken for approved art" variant: Banksy has left his own reinterpretations of famous pieces in museums as though they were meant to be there. They often stay up for days or weeks before someone notices and takes them down.
* Often inverted: You can put a "This is an art project" sign on almost anything, and people will assume it's true.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121020003030/http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/02/18/stupid-employee-trick-of-the-day-workers-trash-50k-artwork/ Workers Mistakenly Trash $50,000 Artwork].
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