LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain’s most prestigious art galleries put
a block of slate on display, topped by a small piece of wood, in the
mistaken belief it was a work of art.
The Royal Academy included the chunk of stone and the small bone-shaped
wooden stick in its summer exhibition in London.
But the slate was actually a plinth — a slab on which a pedestal is
placed — and the stick was designed to prop up a sculpture. The
sculpture itself — of a human head — was nowhere to be seen.
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