Now we're calling a blank canvas artwork?

I have a few heavily embroidered fabric pieces that I picked up in Oaxaca and it has embroidery all the way up to the edges. Any ideas on how to hang up a piece like this? It has a lot of textural interest so I don't want to put in under glass.

kaavaali, if the fabric is hefty enough, you can hang it like a quilt:
http://quilting.about.com/od/decoratingwithquilts/ss/quilt_sleeve.htm

otherwise you could pin it to a canvas or piece of wood to look kinda like picture #5.

the blank canvas may not be "artwork", but once you put it on the wall, it's "wall art", for better or worse. i actually like the "we're more minimalist than you are" effect here.

Don't forget about framing LPs! Ikea sells frames specifically that size. Then hit the used record store!

it looks gorgeous

The blank canvas looks to me like an oversized airconditioning unit. Not cool.
Love the flashcards though.

I like the flashcards and fabric art.

I worked at an Art museum for a while and someone gave me this definition of art.

Art - anything that produces a strong feeling in the viewer, whether it is happiness,contentment,love, hatred, or disgust and especially if it makes you want to do something.

If you see a pile of metal labeled as modern art and you run off to make something better out of disgust for the first item, then it IS art. It provoked you.

I add to it that if it merely makes you shake your head, then it is not art.

I once saw a small shop selling home town art, it was a blue triangle, red circle and yellow square and looked like it was drawn by a child priced at $200. I politely asked about the artist and found out that it was an adult female who decided to produce and sell this art last week. It made me kind of sad because it was so terrible, but only for the "artist". The circle wasn't really round, the straight lines weren't straight.

I had a friend who had a bunch of empty frames, spray painted them all the same color and hung them over her sofa...they looked really nice. The flash cards idea is very cute, as is the framing of fabric to look like artwork. Also that pixelated artwork is genius! The blank canvas looks unfinished to me...perhaps it would be better if it had some texture to it, to make it interesting. As is...it looks rather dull.

Once I made a rasterized picture of a favorite Souther Salazar picture for my old apartment back in the day...

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e93/amylooooo/rasterfull004.jpg

On seeing the first picture I thought something was wrong with my eyes, or a migraine was coming up. That blurred look would get on my nerves.

I think that suggesting a blank canvas as a thrifty DIY option is perhaps the best statement on the full force of kitschy crafts meeting overblown minimalism that one could hope to make. The only downside being that this is somewhat insulting to your audience, on many levels.. :)

With the exception of the kid's stuff, assuming it was made by an actual kid:

This is not art. This is soulless, copy-and-paste, trendy mail order catalogue decoration. This does for art what Jeffrey Dahmer did for cuisine.

@youcannotbeserious... harsh. so if the "kid's stuff" wasn't made by actual kid, it's no longer art? that's a pretty narrow definition, don't you think?

if you conceive an idea and execute it, i don't see how that's soulless or copy-and-paste.

-kb (the guy who did the lincoln painting. or, well... based on your definition, can i even call it a painting?)

roygbiv - That's really cool!

youcannotbeserious - Although your comment made me laugh, it is a little much, don't ya think? ;) It seems people in general have widely varying definitions of "art". Even though I love modern minimalism, I, too, do not consider a blank canvas hung above a sofa "art".

kb - Bravo! I think you have created a wonderful, must-have-been-very-time-consuming, piece of "Art"!