1.13.2005

When art's a bit too close to life: Ten garbage collectors in Frankfurt, Germany, are being sent to classes on modern art for mistaking artist Michael Beutler's sculptures for trash and incinerating them. Of the art, a conglomeration of yellow plastic sheets, Frankfurt's sanitation chief said, "As the weather was bad I thought it was construction workers who had dumped their materials on the street and called my people to come and take it away." And residents in condos across the street from the new Yoshio Taniguchi-designed Museum of Modern Art in New York are peeved that the new space gives spectacular views into their expensive living rooms. Said one MOMA neighbor, "I feel like I'm an exhibit. They're over there all day, staring, pointing, flashing their cameras."

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