And this is why abstract art sucks.....

[zerj]

This one made me chuckle. Apparently an artist sent in a sculpture to be exhibited. His work consisted of a large sculpture of a human head and a small dowel used to keep the head from rocking around. Well the museum didn't realize the dowel was used to support the sculpture and therefore treated it as a separate submission. To top that off they decided the dowel was "better" and left the sculpture in the basement and proudly exhibited the dowel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5081744.stm?ls

I wonder what symbolism and such the Academy thought the dowel represented and how this piece moved them more than the ordinary statue.