[annie nance]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/01/us/unmade-bed-art/

Is it art? Yes, because someone paid four million dollars for it.

Or not?

[ross hamilton hill]

I like the honesty of her work, this is a great exhibit piece and I would guess has been bought by a gallery, it is a snap-shot of life and as such as meaningful as any painting, just not very practical if you want to put it in your living room. Installation art is usually so cold and intellectual, I like this because it is human. $4 million isn't much in the art world and money is a crazy value to put on art anyway. One of Modigliani's paintings ended up as the roof for a chicken shed, recently his painting 'doomed lover' sold for $214 million.

[John Whitworth]

Of course it is art She made it, didn't she? (or in this case didn't). The question is whether it is good art.

It's not as good as the urinal, is it? Not as good as the pisser. What I want to know is does it smell?

[annie nance]

John, I was wondering the same thing!

But she didn't really MAKE it. Not intentionally as art, I mean, anyway. I mean it just happened and then she called it art. So does that count?

[Sharon Passmore]

Do people really see clothing on the Emperor?

[ross hamilton hill]

A lot of art is seeing things before others do, like the sulptural qualities in a public urinal or the reversals of Warhol, turning photos into prints into paintings. I like the pathos of this, the unmade bed and the personal detritus, it is public art, found sculpture, and should be judged as such, like Picasso's bicycle seat and handle-bars bull. People always say 'Oh anyone could do that', but the point is anyone didn't, the artist did and did it first, blazed a trail. And she did make it, she made the mess.
Anyway time will tell. Emin seems very 'establishment' now, she's a Professor at the Royal Academy, London.