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'Mind the sticky patch!': Why has this Dutch museum covered the floor in peanut butter?

Fancy a sticky, nutty treat? This Dutch museum might be able to help. Forty tubs of peanut butter have been spread at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen - here's why.

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00:14It's an absurd artwork. It also questions what art is. It's funny and it's, well, peanut butter is, I don't
00:24know, in the Netherlands, every child eats peanut butter, so it's also something people can relate to.
00:29And it always entices questions. What is art? Can art be fun? Can you use the floor as art? So
00:36it's, in that sense, a very important work. And to us as a museum, his work is also very much
00:44related to other conceptual artists in the collection.
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