If a pile of bricks and an unmade bed are art then poser certainly is, too. Or a bed covered with ham (see link). Sorry, just wanted to point out that your average "art critic" is a complete idiot. If society functioned like those types of critics, I could stand on a street corner with a miniature umbrella up my nose and say I'm a policeman, and would then be legally able to arrest people. Then someone would say "Well, if some guy standing on a street corner with a small umbrella up his nose is a policeman, then my boiling pot of feces is soup!". There is a time and place for avant garde art, as well as abstract art, but items like the above are just pure crap, stretching the meaning of "art" in much the same way that spyware EULAs stretch the term "user permission". Now excuse me while I attempt to convince Jim Burton to send me a copy of his dead horse so that I may render it in a temple with a nekkid Vicki beating it ;-P