Test Post with Old News - Urinals

Urinals, although not a common feature of homes, are very useful and regularly found in museums.  Some urinals are important enough, for some inexplicable reason, to be displayed on a podium in the exhibit hall.  Duchamp, in 1917 converted an everyday object into art by submitting it to a museum to be displayed as his sculpture.  Does the urinal then cease to be a urinal?  Not in the mind of performance artist Pinoncelli who put the urinal to use 1993.  It seems to me that by urinating in the urinal, Pinoncelli transformed an everyday art object back into an everyday plumbing fixture.  Needless to say, the Pompidou did not appreciate his contribution to the exhibit and subsequent abuse of the object d'art with a hammer.