I think we need to break this into 2 distinct types of 'like';
The like of appreciation, and the like of laughing until you piss yourself.

I've been to the Pompidou Centre in Paris several times, and it has to be in my top 5 most fun things to do.
Exhibits there have changed considerably over the last few years - I suppose showing the changes in 'the scene'. It's currently got quite a few videos on show which are quite frankly perverse and I can't see any reason for its creation other than for the 'artist' (and I use the term loosely) to show the world what they've got.

As for a 3*3 foot blue felt square - "Yes... Hmm, I see. There is just so much going on here!"


Then again - some of them are hillarious. Don't know if anyone else here saw 'The Usual Suspects' when it was there. A row of mice/rats about 6ft high dressed as prisoners and a spotlight going between them with some jalibreak music in the background. Boy did my sides hurt when I left that one
As for the robins, sparrows, etc, dressed up in little jackets in a glass presentation case - you have to ask, can they really think of nothing else?

Modern art is for plebians really. I don't see how crudely done paintings can be seen as good when you compare those paintings to the old masters paintings. Challenges the boundaries? In a negative way I suppose modern art does, but why do something if it's only for the sake of negativity?

I've seen the Angel of the North and I think that it is a great piece of work. I think that it is made from rusty steel though rather than wood: the winds up there would tear a wooden wing that size from the shoulders.

Then they made a movie about the art critic who was disgraced by voting for the monkey's painting, whereby he was going round exacting his revenge on the people who set him up in a horror thriller. BTW, Modern art doesn't provoke any other emotion than contempt. Most realists aren't even worthy of their status either, just look at Peter Bruegel.