Dave Barry is America’s preeminent humor columnist, and for some time now, he has been fascinated by the predilection of British art museums for “paying large sums of money for works of art that can only be described as extremely innovative (I am using ‘innovative’ in the sense of ‘stupid’).” Having previously questioned the legitimacy of Martin Creed’s flickering lights, Barry is now doubled over by the news that artist Ceal Floyer has won a major award for a bag of trash. “To judge from the photograph in the Times, it is a standard black plastic garbage bag, just like the ones you put your garbage in, except of course that you have to pay people to haul your garbage bags away, whereas Ms. Floyer got $47,000 for hers.”