Collector mistakes gallery’s broken vacuum cleaner for art, offers to buy it

Someone's trash truly is someone else's treasure. At least, if they are a postmodern art collector who likes to set money on fire! At least that's what a patron of the arts bid for the Merino Gallery‘s broken vacuum cleaner, tucked away in a corner waiting to be discarded. According to staff, the cleaner had been used throughout the week to vacuum the exhibition floors before its motor reportedly gave out. Rather than immediately throwing it away, a member of the cleaning crew left it beside a wall while waiting for it to be removed. To the collector, however, its...