This week’s question: A New York artist collected and sold garbage from outside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden. The trash, which was encased in plastic cubes and hawked online at $25 apiece, was quickly snapped up by Swift fans. If an art museum were to stage an exhibition of Swift and Kelce’s wedding trash, what would the show be titled?
THE WINNER: “The Tortured Poets Department of Sanitation”
Jeff Jarrett, Pittsburgh
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SECOND PLACE: “You Belong with Debris”
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Va.
THIRD PLACE: “Scrape It Off”
Susan Petersen, Portland, Ore.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“The Garbage Collection (Taylor and Travis’ Version)”
Raven Deerwater, Mendocino, Calif.
“Shake It Off, Then Sell It”
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Mass.
“The Trash Eras Tour”
Rich Wolf, Westminster, Md.
“Look What You Made Me Sell”
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
“Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Shake It Off, Good As New”
Matt Weatherly, Hillsborough, N.C.
“Star Dust”
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pa.
“Litterati”
Rick Torrence, The Village, Okla.
“Trash (Taylor’s Version)”
Michael Fischer, Baltimore
“Undumpable”
Phil Eichenauer, Los Angeles
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