The workshop I'm in - "Photography as Art" - has me thinking and is making this old engineer's brain twitch. Sorry, but my cynical self has difficulty not thinking that "What is Art?" is a big joke being played by the "arty" community. Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans as Fine Art are bad enough. But how about this article? (for real, not a joke):
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Wed Dec 1, 4:35 PM ET Top Stories - AP
LONDON - A porcelain urinal is the most influential work of modern art, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The poll of 500 arts figures ranked French surrealist Marcel Duchamp's 1917 piece "Fountain" an ordinary white, porcelain urinal more influential than Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and "Guernica," Picasso's searing depiction of the devastation of war.

Duchamp pioneered the use of everyday objects as art, an aesthetic that questioned the nature of art itself.
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A Urinal? Come on! Tune in tomorrow for a shot of Ed's potty.