art vending machine

Interesting newsfeed I came upon in Time.

So this guy in Germany came up with the idea of vending machines that would vend art pieces for really cheap and supposedly, this is getting popular throughout Europe. He says the idea of these vending machines is to target places where art is scarce like public buildings (which is funny because a lot of people in class chose architecture itself as public art for the visual essay theme), bars (can't really see how people would want to buy art in a bar but ok), etc. The guy is quoted as saying, "We wanted to get art into places that don't have anything to do with art so that it would become a part of everyday life." My theme for this project was everyday art so I definitely read this differently than most people would have because my argument for the project was that art is everywhere and most certainly found in everyday objects, like benches. Art is already a part of my everyday life but of course, I wouldn't have realized that without this project and maybe I would have been super duper excited about these vending machines so I can make art a part of everyday life by paying $2.78 for art in a box.