{"id":26522,"date":"2017-05-08T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=26522"},"modified":"2024-03-26T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:59:59","slug":"becoming-an-artist-is-as-easy-as-a-pineapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/05\/becoming-an-artist-is-as-easy-as-a-pineapple\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming An Artist Is As Easy As A Pineapple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do love these stories. \u00a0This time it was a couple of students at Gordon University in Scotland <em>managed to pass off a pineapple as a work of art after leaving it in the middle of an exhibition.\u00a0 Ruairi\u00a0Gray, a business information technology student at Robert Gordon University in Scotland, and his friend Lloyd Jack,\u00a0reportedly left the fruit at the Look Again exhibition at RGU&#8217;s Sir Ian Wood building, hoping that it might be mistaken for art.\u00a0 When they\u00a0returned four days later he found that the pineapple had been put inside its own glass display case at the event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Best part &#8230; once the prank was discovered, the piece was left in the exhibit. Guess Gray and Jack can now claim they are artists and even have an exhibition history to prove it! \u00a0See how easy it is to become an artist.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/news\/pineapple-art-exhibition-scotland-robert-gordon-university-ruairi-gray-lloyd-jack-a7723516.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Students left a pineapple in the middle of an exhibition and people mistook it for art<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do love these stories. \u00a0This time it was a couple of students at Gordon University in Scotland managed to pass off a pineapple as a work of art after leaving it in the middle of an exhibition.\u00a0 Ruairi\u00a0Gray, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/05\/becoming-an-artist-is-as-easy-as-a-pineapple\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[11,9,53],"class_list":["post-26522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-stupid-art-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Becoming An Artist Is As Easy As A Pineapple<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/05\/becoming-an-artist-is-as-easy-as-a-pineapple\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Becoming An Artist Is As Easy As A Pineapple\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I do love these stories. \u00a0This time it was a couple of students at Gordon University in Scotland managed to pass off a pineapple as a work of art after leaving it in the middle of an exhibition.\u00a0 Ruairi\u00a0Gray, a &hellip; More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/05\/becoming-an-artist-is-as-easy-as-a-pineapple\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-08T11:58:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-26T11:59:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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