you forgot that pee in a jar has been displayed as the serious work of one "artist" It was actually a Crucifix in a jar that contained urine, and if I remember right, the piece was called "Piss Christ". I didnt get to see it when it was on display, but a friend of mine did, and he said the curious thing was watching the reactions to it -- after being suitably outraged by it, several patrons went back to other, more inaccessible pieces and tried to figure out if those were supposed to be inflamatory as well. In other words, it made them look at art more closely... which, in a way, is terribly ironic.