James Franco sells invisible art, a scam?

James Franco is the riding high on life, considered one of the most visible renaissance men of Hollywood. Between getting multiple degrees, acting in award-winning films, and being professor, Franco is now a selling artist.

But it’s not just any art. It’s invisible art. Say what?

The project is called “Museum of Non-Visible Art” and describes itself as “an extravaganza of imagination.” The artwork is entirely about ideas and invisible save for the description of what it is is supposed to be. It’s a play on a “parallel world” that we’ve created on entirely of images and words. Make sense yet? Didn’t think so.

Here’s a better way of putting it. When you buy the so-called pieces what you get is a card with a description of the piece of art and a letter of authentication. As the Kickstarter campaign describes: “You may mount this card on a blank wall in your home or gallery. What comes next is up to you! The artwork comes to life—and takes on full personal meaning—in your imagining and describing of it, both to yourself and to your visitors. You may also choose to sell the non-visible artwork to another collector, to exhibit it elsewhere, or to lend it back to Praxis when we take the Non-Visible Museum on tour.”

So for anywhere between $20 to $10,000, you get a tile card and a letter stating the art is real. Works by James Franco include the film “Red Leaves” going for $25; a costume from the film going for $50; and a sculpture costing $100.

His imagined short film based on William Faulkner’s short story “Red Leaves.” It relates a story of the EARLY inhabitants of Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapawtapha County. A stunning and beautifully conceived work of art. It is a portrait of a culture on the brink of destruction.

But remember, it’s invisible!

STILL confused? Check out the Kickstarter campaign. A scam or is it real artwork?

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James Franco sells invisible art, a scam?