THE ART OF DOING NOTHING

Italian artist Salvatore Garau created an artwork that must be seen to be believed. Only, you can’t see it. It’s invisible. Still, that didn’t stop Garau from successfully selling the nonexistent artwork to someone who saw enough there to shell out $18,300. The new owner went home with very real instructions: The work, which is, to repeat, invisible, must be displayed in a five-byfive-foot space free of obstruction. source: artnet.com

Not to be outdone, Danish artist Jens Haaning received an $84,000 loan from a museum in Denmark. The cash was to be used as part of an art piece to illustrate income disparity. Haaning had a better idea: He produced two blank canvases titled

Run. Take the Money and

“The work is that I have taken their money,” he says. source: smithsonian magazine

When electric keyboard player Johnny Greenwood joined the rock group Radiohead, he knew that lead singer Thom Yorke had fired a previous keyboardist for playing too loudly. He came up with a novel way to stay employed: He turned off his instrument. During months of rehearsals, he says, “I’d pretend to play ... and Thom would say, ‘I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture.’” source: npr

The five-year-old that I babysit is convinced I pay his mom to let me hang out with him.

—source: reddit.com