- Ever crapped in a can and sold it for cash money?
- Let's talk about that.
(fun theme music)
(fire blazing)
Good Mythical Morning.
- Anything at all can be art if it is presented as art.
And when people become convinced that something is art they
will sometimes pay bonkers amounts of money for them.
The question is, how good are you at guessing what they paid
for these eccentric art items?
- Great.
- It's time for You Smart Enough To Guess The Price Of
This Art Stuff?
Link Neal, come on down!
(cheering)
You are the only contestant on Most Expensive Art.
- Thank you for having me.
I like expensive stuff.
- Hey, good.
- I like to look at it but not buy it.
- We also have the help of Stevie.
(cheering) (applause)
This is leather - There she is.
- Edition Stevie.
- Yes.
Slick back.
Mythical Pomade. - Biker Stevie.
- Slick back leather edition Stevie.
(laughs)
Okay Link, you know how this works.
I'm going to describe something to you, I'm gonna give you
two choices for the price that
it might be. - Yeah, they
will appear here.
- Yeah and then the correct answer will be revealed.
If you get four out of seven correct you win either $1 or
what is in the mystery box.
- And I'll usually choose the wrong answer but not
on purpose. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Every struggling artist is striving for more visibility
except for the ones at the Museum of Non-Visible Art.
Created by husband and wife team Praxis.
(laughs)
- No.
No, no, no, no, no.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
- You can't...
Whatever.
- Where the art stays and the artist's mind.
How much did their piece Fresh Air, which comprised of just
a description, sell for
in 2011?
Is it $800 or $10,000?
- For a sign that says Fresh Air that refers to something
that you're buying that doesn't exist.
- Well, if you wanna see it like that, maybe.
- Is it in a container?
- Hey man,
it's fresh air. - You know I'm bet.
- Team Praxis.
- This is so ludicrous.
- What are you guessing?
- $10,000.
- You're right, (bell dings)
Link! - Yes!
- Yes!
- That is offensive!
- Somebody bought that for $10,000.
Here, listen to the description.
- Are you kidding me?
- "This work is like having an endless take of oxygen.
"No matter where you are you always have the ability to take
"a breath of the most delicious clean smelling air that the
"earth can produce.
"This art work is something to carry with you because
"wherever you are you can imagine yourself getting the most
"beautiful taste of air that is from the mountain tops,
"fields, or the ocean side.
"It is an endless supply."
- Or
wherever you are and you're breathing.
It's not even - Hold on.
- In a container.
- I thought that this was dumb until I read that description
and I'm in on this.
Praxis, next time you're selling fresh air give me a call.
- I bet Praxis is a couple that has one
Facebook account too, you know?
(crew laughs)
"We share a Facebook account.
"Our name is Praxis."
- Ever think your dookie was so special you could can it
and sell it?
(laughs)
Italian artist Piore Manzoni did.
His 1961 work (bleeps) de artiste
consisted of 90 tin cans
filled with 30 grams each of his poop.
The record price for a single can was reached in 2016 when
it sold at auction for how much?
- No.
- Cans of poop, Link.
It's art. - Artist's poop.
One can
Sold for - How much is one can?
- A record amount of
what that?
(crew laughs)
- What dat, hm?
- Is that pounds?
- That's a euro, man.
- Oh, a euro.
I knew that.
- 275,000 euros or 275 euros.
- (laughs) You'd think you'd be making it easy for me.
(laughs)
This is too, too, too much for number two.
- Alright.
- I'mma say euro 275.
- Alright, you are wrong. (buzzing)
(laughs)
- Are you freaking kidding me?
- Someone bought it for 275,000 euros which is
almost 300,000-- - Praxis bought it.
- (laughs) No, no.
Almost $300,000.
Now listen, I got a business proposition.
It involves you and me, a bunch of empty cans and a
lot of fiber.
(laughs) Hey.
- I'll squat over a can.
- Hey man, this could be the only thing that we do.
Everyday it's just like line 'em up (raspberrys), line
'em up (raspberrys).
We'd become billionaires.
- Yeah and we'd have a lot of free time too.
- I poop a lot, man.
I'm a big man, I'm like a horse.
(laughs)
- You'd have to be constantly eating?
- Which I love to do.
- Yeah, we can do it.
- Oh.
- I gave you one.
- That was weird.
- I changed it one at the last second.
- You shouldn't throw your trash in the street, not because
of the environment, because you're wasting an opportunity to
sell it as art, stupid.
Artist Justin
Gignac
sells boxes of authentic hand picked
and arranged New York City garbage on his website
for how much?
Is it $50 or $5,000?
So a hand picked box of New York City garbage.
- Well even at $50 a pop, I mean,
he's making money.
This is a viable business.
- Okay.
- But he's an artist, he's not a businessman.
- Right, yeah.
- $5,000.
- Alright.
Wrong! (buzzing)
He's more reasonable. - Okay, he's good.
- And after the first two I hear $50 for a box of garbage
I'm like, I'm in.
- Give me that. (laughs)
- You set the price high
and I come low. - Gotta buy somethin'.
Garbage of New York City.
- He's a really cool guy.
You should go check him out and some of his other projects.
- What's his website?
- I'm not gonna give you the website, we'll put it
in the description.
But seriously, that artist, he's cool.
- You should go there but I'm not gonna tell you how
to get there.
- You now have a great excuse for not cleaning your room.
It's art A-F.
(crew laughs) At least
Tracey Erin's 1998 piece
My Bed is.
It consists of an unmade bed, stained bedsheets, period
stained underwear and other everyday objects.
How much did the bed sell for at Christie's Auction House?
This is not your wife's auction house.
This is Christie with an I-E.
- What's that?
That's a lira?
(crew laughs)
- That's also a euro.
- It's a different symbol.
- That's a pound. - That's a pound.
- That's a pound.
- Knew that.
- That's a pound.
- See, you didn't know either.
(laughs)
- I was like, yeah, that's the other E.
- Two million or 22 million for a bed with some trash
throw around it? - 2.5 million or 22.5 million.
- Gosh.
There's no way.
No one has that
for art. - No one has that much
money for art. - For art?
2.546
point.
- You are right, Link. (bell dings)
22 million would be unreasonable for a dirty bed.
But 2.5 million is a bargain!
And for an extra 100 K the artist's mom will yell at you
that company is comin' over and she doesn't care that
they're not gonna be in your room, you need to pick
up after yourself!
- Mm, I am so depressed right now.
- Well, it keeps going.
Andy Warhol is known for his provocative pop art.
- I've heard of him. - Also his
provocative pee art.
Oxidation Painting is a series of copper metallic pigment
paintings that Warhol urinated on and then let oxidize.
How much did one of his pee paintings sell for at
Christie's Auction House?
Christie is getting a lot of business.
You should get in on that.
You could be like Praxis.
- So he peed on
copper and it rusted.
- Yeah.
I think this is pretty cool. - But it is Andy Warhol's pee.
- I think this is actually legitimately cool.
- $1.9 million.
(bell dings) - You're right, Link!
You're on a roll!
- I mean, the dude can paint soup cans in screen print,
Marilyn Monroe, he can pee.
- Hey, I got a business proposition.
(laughs)
It involves you, me, some empty canvasses, and a
lot of water.
(laughs)
- That's good, man.
Now we've doubled our output.
- If Warhol's pee makes you wanna vomit, do it on a canvas.
Millie Brown does.
Her live vomit art consists of brown, drinking colored milks
and vomiting them back up on a canvas.
How much did Millie Brown puke painting sell
for at showstudio.com?
Was it $2,400 or $4,200?
- I've seen her doing this on video.
I don't know why I was seeing it.
This is tough.
It's a performance piece so I don't know about owning it.
I'm going for 2,400.
I wanna see it being made but I don't wanna have it
in my house.
- You're right, Link! (bell dings)
- Yes.
- And that technically means that you got four right so now
we're just doing this one for giggles.
- Yeah, I get a dollar or the mystery box?
- Yeah.
- Put the mystery box up here just 'cause I know I earned
it, 'cause I want that mystery box.
Right there, kids.
- A picture is worth a thousand words but a picture of a
word might be worth more.
(laughs)
Christopher Wool began his word series of paintings in 1980
and the most expensive one to ever sell at auction is the
not exactly untitled, untitled, Riot.
How much did is sell for at Sotheby's Auction House?
Sotheby's.
- Sotheby's.
- Sotheby's
- Is it 2.9 million or 29.9 million?
- Just four letters on a canvas.
- Four letters on a canvas, Link.
- How on earth could that even be three million?
- (laughs) Well
- There's even gaps
in the letters. - It's special.
This is Christopher Wool we're talking
about. - He didn't even
connect the letters.
- I think that was intentional.
- Man, my brain's been checked out of this a long time ago.
30 million.
- Alright, let's see.
You're right, Link!
- What?!
- You're an art genius! - That's crazy!
- Now Link,
- $30 million for four letters?
That's at least
- Don't do the math. - Six million...
- It's too hard.
Look at this.
Look what I got commissioned.
- I hope you didn't pay a lot for that.
How much did you pay for that?
- We made it here, man.
(crew laughs)
Nothing.
But we could sell it for quite a bit.
Now, I'm gonna keep it.
That's not your prize.
- But this is?
- Your prize is either $1 or what's in the mystery box.
- What's in the mystery box?
- It's fresh air.
(crew laughs)
- Millions of dollars worth.
- I talked to Praxis and the said they can make as many
as I needed.
(breathes)
- Smells like box, man.
- It smells like a mountain top box, doesn't it?
Take that with you, you can have it anywhere at any time.
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