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German artwork doesn’t impress cleaning lady

The results can be interesting when common sense collides with modern art.

A museum in Dortmund, Germany, recently had on display a work by the late artist Martin Kippenberger.

Called “When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling,” the piece looks, as best we can tell, a bit like a wooden ladder, with a large plastic bowl at its base.

The artist painted the bowl so as to make it appear to have become discolored by dripping water.

Art is a many-splendored thing, of course, and tastes vary widely. So we’ll leave it to the art world and individual art enthusiasts to decide whether Kippenberger’s artwork is to their liking.