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Mistaken for Exhibit
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My, what a stunning painting! The stark green lettering over a plain white background forcefully expresses the artist's quest for meaning and direction in a confusing world. Truly a masterpiece. What do you mean, it's the "Emergency Exit" sign? My bad. Often intended as a Take That! to contemporary art, this comedic situation involves somebody mistakenly believing that a non-artistic item among works of art is itself a work of art. A variant involves non-artistic settings, such as an old person at an archeological exhibition being mistaken for a mummy. The inversion involves a genuine work of art being mistaken for a mundane item. Compare Accidental Art and All Part of the Show. A person might invoke this trope deliberately to hide; see Nobody Here but Us Statues. If the object being mistaken for an exhibit is a person, it may be related to the Living Museum Exhibit. Essentially the converse of True Art Is Incomprehensible - this trope is people concluding that because something is incomprehensible, it must be art. |
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The Casagrandes: "Achy Breaky Art" has Bobby do this with a trash can at the art gallery. | |
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The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Bully" starts with an art exhibit, including one "painting" that turns out to be blood from the murder victim dripping down from the ceiling onto a canvas. | |
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Non-artistic example in GoldenEye: As Q demonstrates numerous lethal items disguised as mundane objects, 007 picks up a sub sandwich and examines it. Q snatches it away hurriedly. | |
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In an episode of El Chapulín Colorado, while visiting a museum Doctor Chapatín mistakes a grumpy-looking guy for an idol and tries to take a photo of him. There's another involving a wax statue exhibit, and a guy mistakes the museum's curator for a statue, getting startled when he talks | |
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Lamput: In "Art Gallery", Fat Doc and Slim Doc, while at an art gallery, are compressed into each other and land in a room full of visitors in this state. The visitors immediately take a liking to their abstract shape and snap pictures of them. In "Thief in the Museum", after being kicked out too many times from an ancient Egyptian museum while trying to catch Lamput, the docs eventually disguise themselves as mummies to get in. Once they catch Lamput, he disguises himself as a piece of jewelry, causing the three of them to be mistaken for an exhibit, being put under a glass case until the museum closes. |
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Actress Sheree J Wilson (of Dallas and Walker, Texas Ranger) got her start when she arrived at a fashion shoot to work as a photographer, only to be mistaken for the model in question. She was introduced to an agent who signed her to a contract instantly. | |
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On It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Frank pretends to be an art collector and visits a gallery, where he starts trashing every exhibit as "bullshit," until he comes across one piece he says he loves... the air conditioner. When the owner points this out, instead of admitting his mistake, Frank insists that the piece is "everything," and that, "after all, we're all just air conditioners." The gallery owner seems to agree with his opinion. It's also quite possible that Frank knows it's not actually an exhibit, and just wants to troll the snobbish gallery owner. | |
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Justice League. A variation in "Comfort and Joy". The Flash hears some explosions going off in a museum and investigates. He finds some sculptures that look mangled and wonders who would do such a thing. Ultra-Humanite then reveals himself, commenting that he hasn't done a thing to those sculptures; they were that ugly to start with. | |
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Inverted during the Loving murders. When detectives arrive at the studio of Jeremy Hunter, they find the sculpture of a man, but there's no sign of Jeremy. They soon come to the horrified realization that the statue is Jeremy—the Corinth Serial Killer encased him in quick-drying plaster and left him to suffocate to prevent him from revealing their identity to the police. | |
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On 227, Mary is helping her friend clean up her art gallery in preparation for a show. When she forgets the bottle of Windex on a display stand, sure enough, the snooty art critic who's been deriding the real artists paintings can't stop fawning and gushing over it — "Now this is art!" | |
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Baldur's Gate II: If you 'fail' the "Obtain the services of Sir Sarles for the Temple" sidequest by trying to fool Sir Sarles with an alloy of his requested unobtainium (which he'll refuse to work with), the party will be forced to return to the temple with the unworked lump of alloy. Instead of failing you, however, the temple's head priest thinks the lump is the artwork he commissioned and orders it displayed in the temple. If Yoshimo is in the party he'll remark you were all lucky the head priest had a taste for art interpretation. | |
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In the Discworld novel Thud!, Fred and Nobby suggest that the curator of the local art museum (who has been displaying a number of abstract works that look like piles of garbage) turn the empty frame where a stolen masterpiece had until the previous day resided be turned into a new work entitled "Art Theft". | |
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In the Judge Dee mystery The Haunted Monastery, the eponymous monastery has a gallery of horrors depicting the torments awaiting sinners in the Taoist hell. A victim is abducted and displayed in the gallery, disguised as one of the figures. | |
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Inverted in a Portlandia sketch, where characters stumble into everyday situations (like getting mugged), only to be told that they're part of an art project. | |
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Murphy Brown: Eldin (Murphy's live-in housepainter) gets a show at an art gallery. At the opening people come in to find a completely empty room. They discuss whether they themselves are the art or what, but then Eldin points out that he painted a mural on the ceiling. | |
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A strip from One Big Happy has the family visit a museum of objects made from recycled trash. Ruthie and Joe mistake a patron for a statue made from dryer lint. | |
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Happens in an episode of Columbo, where Columbo's interviewing employees of an art gallery the suspect was supposedly at during the murder. A woman explains some of the art pieces to him, until Columbo asks what a vent on the wall costs. As usual, it's not clear whether he genuinely mistook it or if he did it on purpose to yank the lady's chain about the overpriced art she sells. | |
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The Red Dwarf episode "Legion": Rimmer, pretending he knows about art to impress Legion, compliments one piece: | |
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Inverted on an episode of Webster. A local artist makes a sculpture consisting of a bunch of aluminum cans welded together in a net. Webster finds the sculpture while looking for cans to recycle and gets it crushed. He and George end up trying to recreate the sculpture. The artist finds out and is perfectly okay with it. (The point of the sculpture was an environmental message.) | |
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The Beatles are at a weirdo art exhibit (episode "Twist and Shout") where Ringo tries to play a stone exhibit that looks like a drum set. The creator says it's a creation he calls "Portrait of Father". | |
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Wonder Woman 1984: Diana Prince is showing Steve Trevor (who died in 1918 and has somehow come back from the dead in 1984) the modern world. She says that the entire pavilion they're walking through (specifically The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) is filled with works of art. Steve stops to stare at one particular piece made from plastic that's about waist-height and hollow. Diana tells him that's just a trash can. | |
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You're Skitting Me: A sketch had the two hipsters discussing the meaning of their favorite piece of street art, only for it to be revealed to be a No Parking sign. Another sketch had the hipsters arguing about whether a piece of art was avant-garde or surrealist. A cleaning woman then sweeps up the scrunched up piece of paper. |
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Sandra and Woo: After seeing several "readymades" and other "postmodern" stuff at an art gallery, Sandra wonders if a stepladder is also a piece of art until she sees a janitor step onto it. | |
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Designing Women has Julia Sugarbaker leave her purse, which has a curvy black-and-white pattern, on its side on a table in a museum of modern art, whereupon the art crowd descends to ooh and ahh over it. The curator then insists the purse IS Art and therefore museum property, to the frustration of Julia, who just wants it back. | |
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The Great Ace Attorney: In "The Return of the Great Departed Soul," Ryunosuke and Iris make a visit to Madame Tusspells Museum of Waxworks, where they find an apparent wax statue of their friend Herlock Sholmes in the Chamber of Horrors exhibit. Seemingly convinced, Iris starts kicking it, prompting Ryunosuke to scold her for messing with the exhibits... only for the Sholmes statue to suddenly keel over in pain while Iris's back is turned. As soon as Ryunosuke notices, Sholmes resumes his position as if nothing happened. | |
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In one episode of Monk, the main character goes to an art gallery and mistakenly believes a display stand is an art piece. He isn't impressed by the actual art pieces, which aren't as smooth and uniform as the stand. | |
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On Malcolm in the Middle, Malcolm's family takes a trip to the Burning Man festival. Hal sunbathing and cheerfully grilling outside his camper are taken by the hippies in attendance as a viciously witty performance piece commenting on emptiness of the American bourgeoisie or some such pretentious nonsense, while Hal remains oblivious as to why so many people keep staring at him while he's vacationing. | |
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In the Futurama episode "Mother's Day", the cast visits a wax museum of famous historical robots: | |
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Happens in the ''Whomp! comic, "Cry-Centennial Man". | |
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In Putt-Putt Travels Through Time, in one scenario, Putt-Putt has to rescue either his lunchbox, calculator, or history report from a future museum. | |
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Get Smart: Max and 99 visit an art gallery, where Max goes on about how a black dot on a white wall represents the loneliness of man in a vast universe. Then the black dot flies away. In "Leadside" the eponymous art thief is robbing a gallery. His minions bring him a painting, a statuette and a round object like an abstract art piece. He orders the last one to be left behind, because it's actually a cuspidor (spittoon). |
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Non Sequitur: Overlapping with True Art Is Incomprehensible, an art critic sees an empty frame hanging in a museum and goes into a long-winded spiel about its interpretation, stuff like "art is dead" and so forth. Then a janitor comes along and hangs a sign in the frame saying "Exhibit Coming Soon". | |
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Doctor Who: "City of Death": The Doctor and Romana leave the TARDIS at the Galerie Denise René in Paris. When they return, there are two people standing in front of it... "The Fires of Pompeii": Not only is the TARDIS mistaken for a modern art installation, but an enterprising street trader has sold it to a wealthy marble merchant, kicking off the Monster of the Week plot. Averted in "The Lodger". The Doctor tries to convince his temporary landlord that a scanning device he's built out of household objects is "a modern art piece on the awfulness of modern life", but is unconvincing. |
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Blake's 7. In "Terminal", Vila convinces one of Servalan's minions to let him take Orac off the Liberator by pretending the computer is a sculpture he's been working on made out of junk. | |
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Inverted in one Nobody Scores! strip. The gang hatch a plot to steal a whole gallery's worth of Wassily Kandinsky paintings under the guise of changing the exhibit. They use Starving Artist Beans' paintings as the replacements, who envisions the heist as his big breakout moment. When the public realizes what has happened, they think Beans' paintings are all outsider art and are met with "an explosion of laughter". The event inspires Adam Sandler to make a movie about it. | |
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In Murder Party, Chris is fleeing the final killer and runs into a room set for a performance art piece, with actors preparing for their performance. The killer bursts in and manages to murder all of the actors messily before Chris fights him off. In a following scene, patrons look in on the bloodstained room filled with mutilated bodies and begin speculating on the meaning of the piece. | |
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Parodied by The Chaser, who attempted to demonstrate that it was possible to dump all kinds of junk in an art gallery without people noticing: tree clippings ("Lord of the Plants"), an old computer, a broken vacuum cleaner (unsuccessfully), an old mattress (unsuccessfully, though one woman spent some time admiring it) and two garbage bags ("Fun Dip"). | |
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The Other Guys when visiting his girlfriend at an art show, Terry dismisses a work that is a table with some craps on it, launching into a surprisingly deep understanding of contemporary art. His argument with his girlfriend in turn, is mistaken for a performance art piece by other guests. | |
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In the South Park episode "The Death Camp of Tolerance", the boys and their parents attend the Museum of Tolerance, where they are shown waxworks of cultural stereotypes. Randy points out the "Sleepy Mexican", who turns out to be an actual janitor who's taking a nap in the middle of the exhibit. | |
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Star Control 2: In exposition dialogues, the Earth station commander mentions that aliens visited Earth in the past and left many incomprehensible artifacts. Such artefacts were discovered as early as the 20th century and were often exhibited, mislabeled as "modern art". | |
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Drop the Dead Donkey. Some violent doodlings by Joy Merryweather are put on display as artwork, and even she's dubious about why until she discovers the man running the exhibit is bribing an art critic to pass off her "infantile scrawl" as art in a scheme to get into Joy's pants. She gets her revenge by displaying him bound, gagged and naked in his own gallery as an exhibit. | |
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A Citizen Dog strip had Mel and Fergus visiting a museum and observing an obscure sculpture from their spot on a bench. Then a child walks up, twists a knob and takes a drink of water from it. | |
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An episode of Mind Your Language sees Juan and Maxmillan visiting Madame Tussauds' Museum in London and mistaking a security guard for one of the wax sculptures after being fooled by another legit wax statue just seconds ago. Juan tries pulling the guard's mustache while commenting on how lifelike the statue is, and Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager. In "Prime Factors", Harry Kim sees a beautiful alien woman playing what he assumes is a Harp of Femininity. It's actually an atmospheric sensor that works via sound. That doesn't bother Harry much as he immediately deduces how it works and they start bonding over that instead. | |
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Books of Adam: In "Is it Art?", a museum guest waxes poetic about a glass of water on a table and how it relates to life, only for someone to comment "That's where I left my cup!". | |
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Inverted in one episode of Mission: Impossible where the villain of the week smuggles a sample of a classified alloy out of the US by using it to make an abstract sculpture. The team is tasked with retrieving the alloy from the sculpture at the art museum it is currently being stashed in before its intended recipient can collect it. The general opinion of the museum security staff (who are not aware of the sculpture's true purpose) on the work is "They paid how much for this thing? We should have been artists!" | |
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Gravity Falls: "Headhunters" began with Mabel, Dipper, and Soos mistaking Grunkle Stan for one of the wax figures in the sealed-off room of the Mystery Shack. | |
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