Teen Leaves Pair Of Glasses On Gallery Floor; Everyone Thinks They’re Art

Visitors to an art museum were fooled into thinking a pair of glasses on the floor were an installation after a teen prankster placed them there.

TJ Khayatan had been left wondering about the artistic merits of some of the displays and so decided to put the art lovers to the test.

So the 17-year-old simply put a pair of glasses on the floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, walked away and watched what happened.

“Upon first arrival we were quite impressed with the artwork and paintings presented in the huge facility,” TJ Khayatan toldBuzzFeed. “However, some of the ‘art’ wasn’t very surprising to some of us.”

“We stumbled upon a stuffed animal on a gray blanket and questioned if this was really impressive to some of the nearby people.”

The teenager has previous, such as this bin?‘installation’

That was when he decided to lay his little art trap.

Sure enough, people start coming up to the artwork, with several even taking pictures.

Khayatan added: “I like to think they imagined the floored glasses to represent the dumbing down of culture, or perhaps the viewing of life through a lens, possibly with a nice, lower-case title like ‘myopia’ or 'real eyes (real lies)’.”

The teen tweeted the moment on 24 May and it’s already attracted over 45,000 retweets.

It is not the first time Khayatan has pulled a prank on modern art aficionados. He previously previously had similar success with an 'installation’ of a baseball cap, and one of a bin.

Despite this, Khayatan is not criticising modern art.

“I can agree that modern art can be a joke sometimes, but art is a way to express our own creativity,“ he added.

“Some may interpret it as a joke, some might find great spiritual meaning in it. At the end of the day, I see it as a pleasure for open-minded people and imaginative minds.”

Pictures from TJ Khayatan/Twitter