Former MIT lecturer who robbed a bank in the name of art pleads guilty to burglary

by | Jun 20, 2015

Washington Post

Avant-garde filmmaker, ex-MIT lecturer Joe Gibbons to be sentenced next month for bank heist

Avant-garde filmmaker, ex-MIT lecturer Joe Gibbons to be sentenced next month for bank heist

In the rarefied world inhabited by performance artists, gallery owners and MFA candidates, there is something called “non-collectible art.” Making this art doesn’t produce something that someone can buy and take home, like Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” or Marcel Duchamp’s urinal. Even a Banksy mural could, in theory, be part of a collection. Instead, non-collectible art might be an experience or the document of an experience — like the time Chris Burden filmed himself getting shot in a California art gallery.

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