Life Imitating Art - or The Other Way Around?

What bent my brain as I watched this video is that much of what they were comically describing as "Art" actually is art. It may be advertising or graffiti but it is art on some level in any case . . . sort of weirds me out, really . . .

From Neatorama:

The folks from Improv Everywhere staged an art gallery opening on the 23rd Street subway platform in Manhattan. They had all the trappings: an open bar (serving cider), a coat check attendant, a cello player for ambiance, and nicely-dressed art patrons. The “art” displayed was the signs, graffiti, and objects already found in the subway! For example, this description was attached to a wall phone:

Telephone Line (2002)
Metropolitan Transit Authority in collaboration with Telecom

This homage to the urgency of communication is meant to highlight the recent necessity, from instant to instant, to maintain the potential for instantaneous, world-wide contact from any location, at any time. That a conversation from such a location would be abruptly interrupted by an arriving train suggests the artist’s intent to lampoon the perceived dependence on telecommunication.