Okay this is too funny. According to this BBC story, An English artist, David Hensel, had submitted a sculpture entitled, One Day Closer To Paradise, (That’s it to the left seated on it’s stone base. You can see the wooden support under the neck.) to a show sponsored by the Royal Academy of Arts. When his exhibit arrived the sculpture was somehow separated from the stone base it was to sit on and a small wooden support he had quickly carved to hold the sculpture on the base. The Royal Academy, not realizing what had happened selected the stone base and the wooden support for display and rejected the sculpture. This is obviously a case of the Emperor’s new sculpture. Hat tip to Michael Barone.
The Emperor’s New Sculputre
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This is unbelievable. Someone can work and put their blood and sweat into a product only to have it completely overlooked for something lesser.