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Today's Idiot
2008-08-13
Though I'm not sure if it's the artist or the museum that deserves the dunce cap:
A giant inflatable dog turd
The AFP reporter might also be eligible for getting the assignment in which he has to report on "a giant inflatable dog turd". Do they cover that at J-school?
by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house.
Think about it. A dog turd. An inflatable dog turd. A giant inflatable dog turd. The size of a house. Installed as art. It was nice knowin' ya, Switzerland. Ye gods.
The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner. The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Posted by:Seafarious

#8  It's amazing what kind of crap they call 'art' these days.
Posted by: gorb   2008-08-13 15:59  

#7  Ain' that the shits....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-08-13 14:48  

#6  It's art..anything will sell these days..looks as good as taking a dump on the city sidewalk.I'll take the pan handler's money on this one.
Posted by: Josing Trotsky1041   2008-08-13 14:45  

#5  The really funny thing to me (and my family) is we often joke about sculptures outside of some nearby places (Providence airport, Boston Museum of Fine Arts) as looking like giant turds.

Art imitates ... parody?
Posted by: xbalanke   2008-08-13 13:26  

#4  Most modern artists live from the State in one way or an another, the actual number of private people who buy their art is very, very limited, and tend to be distributed among a small group of wealthy collectors, IIUC.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-08-13 10:48  

#3  Governement subsidies, through the various cultural appendages of local or national public bodies.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-08-13 10:47  

#2  I was under the impression that artists had to sell art to make a living. Being cool and trendy is fine, but it doesn't pay very well. Who the hell would buy a giant inflatable dog turd?
Posted by: Menhadden Uleresh1966   2008-08-13 10:45  

#1  "The wind carried it 200 metres"

Eeeew - the mental images ...
Posted by: Mad Eye    2008-08-13 03:48  

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