Everyone Wants to Be a Critic

Mark Bridger, 35, was found guilty in a British court of causing criminal damage to a piece of “art”: a dead sheep in a glass tank filled with formaldehyde. He had poured a bottle of black ink into the tank and plastered a sign on the front reading “Black Sheep”. Rather than start over with a fresh white sheep, the “artist” of the work spent $1500 to clean the ink stained one to rehabilitate the “artwork,” which he valued at $38,570. Bridger was released without being sentenced to a fine or jail. (Reuters) ...Cleaning the sheep probably decreased its value — at least, I don’t want it anymore!