In recent weeks, Shia LaBeouf has fought to be taken seriously as an
actor art project (and prove that he is famous yet not famous). He is not the first celebrity to attempt to transcend humanity by becoming a work of art, but he is, by far, the least likable of those to do so (that’s what happens when you plagiarize!). Here are five other celebrities who are considerably better at dividing their time between emitting carbon and being a canvas:
When LaBeouf recently set up an art installation in which he sat silently in a room, the world gawked at him. When Tilda Swinton did it last year, she got space at the Museum of Modern Art. People all around the world will pay money to see Tilda Swinton lie down in a box because Tilda Swinton makes good movies. And she doesn’t plagiarize.
James Franco
Whether you hate him, really hate him, or really, really hate him, at some point you’ve got to hand it to James Franco for successfully burrowing himself into your psyche, because he is just everywhere. He is on Instagram, he is in the museum, he is in that book, and that one too, he is in an upcoming movie, he is in that movie you just saw, he is teaching your friend’s class at NYU, he is sleeping while he’s teaching your friend’s class at NYU, he is art and he is not art.
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga can wear a meat dress or arrive to the Grammys in
style an egg, and we might not understand why, but she adores her little monsters and puts out catchy music year after year … so does it really matter?
Kanye West
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