There is a woman in an art gallery is decorated with paintings on the walls. Still facing one painting she has turned her head to another painting and appears to be talking to it. This other painting looks like a window with a man peeking his head around to watch the woman.
It is unusual for a painting to look like a window with a person looking through at real live people.
How is the man in the painting looking at the woman? What is the woman saying?
Excuse me—which way is Marcel Duchamp's urinal?
scene: an art gallery description: There is a woman in an art gallery is decorated with paintings on the walls. Still facing one painting she has turned her head to another painting and appears to be talking to it. This other painting looks like a window with a man peeking his head around to watch the woman. uncanny: It is unusual for a painting to look like a window with a person looking through at real live people. entities: Modern_art, Piet_Mondrian. caption: Excuse me—which way is Marcel Duchamp's urinal?
People sometimes need to use bathrooms while at museums and ask for directions, like this man in the painting. But here, the man is lost in the art itself, and, as a result, he's looking not just for any urinal, but for Duchamp's famous Dada sculpture "Fountain", which is just a urinal. The original sculpture was lost in real life, and so, it's funny because it's not clear if he is looking for the sculpture because he needs to pee, or if he is trying to recover it for the museum.