The Waikato Museum was holding a contemporary art challenge, and an artist wrote a message to the gallery staff asking them pile up the scraps the other artists were throwing out. He won.

“A pile of rubbish that wasn’t even created by this guy is worth $15,000?” Fergus asked.

She said it was a “sad mockery of us all and an embarrassment to the arts community”.

I think it’s brilliant. Wasn’t it Warhol who said, “Art is anything you can get away with.”