Posts Tagged ‘art’
Student Clayton Pettet Will Lose His Virginity In A Performance Art Show
CLAYTON Pettet, 19, is a second year student at London’s Central Saint Martins school of art. On January 25, 2014, Clayton says he will produce a piece of “performance art” involving him being vigorously shafted up his rectum for the first time.
It’s a big moment. The hope is that all Clayton’s friends and family (hope you can make it, nan) will turn up to support the budding artist in Art School Stole My Virginity.
Says Clayton:
“I’ve held on to my virginity for 19 years, and I’m not throwing it away lightly. Basically it’s like I am losing the stigma around virginity. Since culturally we do hold quite a lot of value to the idea of virginity I have decided to use mine and the loss of it to create a piece that I think will stimulate interesting debate and questions regarding the subject.”
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Posted: 27th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
As seen on eBay: ‘Half-Chewed Cole Haan Wingtip by Emerging Canine Artist, Left Shoe, Size 11.5D’
AS seen on eBay: “Half-Chewed Cole Haan Wingtip by Emerging Canine Artist, Left Shoe, Size 11.5D”
The emerging artist is a Dalmatian mix called Jack from Lee County, Virginia.
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Posted: 14th, October 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Who stole Thomas Dambo’s My Little Pony statue? He soon finds out
WHO stole Thomas Dambo’s My Little Pony statue? He soon finds out. The pony rustler is contrite and helpful. Dambo, a Danish artist and designer working out of Copenhagen, is now looking for someone to help him rehouse the pony:
Posted: 7th, October 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Fourth Plinth Exhibitions: 6 news objects to decorate Trafalgar Square
THE Fourth Plinth has been a joy. Artists and how-offs get to pose. The latest 6 entrants for the pedestal are:
Really Good by artist David Shrigley
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Steve Cohen arrested for dancing with a chicken tied to his cock at the Eiffel Tower
TO the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where Steve Cohen, dressed in platform heels, a garter, long, gloves and tights has a rooster tied to his penis with a long ribbon.
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Mother persuaded to let her 4-year-old finish her drawings reveals the great results
MICA Angela Hendricks shared her new sketchbook with her 4-year-old daughter. She didn’t want to. But the child told her: “If you can’t share, we might have to take it away if you can’t share.” Mica caved in. Her daughter set about finishing her mother’s illustrations. “Not surprisingly, I LOVED what she drew,” says Mica. “I had drawn a woman’s face, and she had turned her into a dinosaur-woman. It was beautiful, it was carefree, and for as much as I don’t like to share, I LOVED what she had created. Flipping through my sketchbook, I found another doodle of a face I had not yet finished. She drew a body on it, too, and I was enthralled. It was such a beautiful combination of my style and hers. And she LOVED being a part of it. She never hesitated in her intent. She wasn’t tentative. She was insistent and confident that she would of course improve any illustration I might have done. …And the thing is, she DID.”
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Posted: 3rd, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (2)
En Puntas: Ballerina dances on sharp kitchen knives atop a piano
JAVIER Pérez has created this video of a ballerina, “whose pointe shoes are extended by a set of sharp kitchen knives, dances and twirls insistently until reaching exhaustion, fighting to maintain balance on the lid of a grand piano set on a stage. The theatre with its red velvet warm lighting, resembles an oversized music box. The camera turns around the dancer revealing the opposite side of the room: an empty and painfully bare theatre.”
The ballerina appears as an eerie figure expressing effort, sacrifice and pain in her strive for perfection. Both fragile and cruel. Initially shy and hesitant, her steps become more and more emphatic, menacing and not exempt of violence, scraping and cutting into the delicate surface of the piano with her sharp pointe shoes.
Through this work, Javier Perez investigates and reflects once again upon the human condition. Using a strongly metaphorical language rich in powerful symbolism, he reveals the weaknesses that become the boundaries between seemingly irreconcilable concepts such as: beauty and cruelty, fragility and violence, culture and nature or life and death.
Keep dancing or else your ankles get it:
Posted: 31st, August 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Eight-metre tall naked man pissing in a river makes waves in Sweden
FINALLY, Charles Clarke, the former Labour Home Secretary, has been honoured with a statue worthy of his talent.
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Posted: 27th, July 2013 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment
Playing with poo – the video
PLAYING with poo, with Yariv Goldfarb:
PS – anyone seen Morph?
Posted: 15th, July 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Photos from Anastassia Elias’ book of toilet roll sculptures
IN the style of the immortal words of Sonny LaTierri, “Let’s hear it for the toilet roll!” Anastassia Elias makes tunnel art from toilet paper tubes. Her new book Rouleaux features photos of 67 works with toilet roll tubes. Here are a few:
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Posted: 20th, June 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Albrecht Dürer and 20th and 21st Century studies on the proportions of the human body
HAS the human body changed. In Albrecht Dürer’s study of the human body, the figure seems natural. Compare and contrat with Erin’s updated version below:
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The work of Lego artist Nathan Sawaya in 17 photos
THE Art of the Brick is Nathan Sawaya’s show at Discovery Times Square museum. (That’s him in the above photo.) It is “the world’s biggest and most elaborate display of LEGO art ever and will feature brand-new, never-before-seen pieces”. If you can make a living from the toys of your youth, you’ve done something right…
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Posted: 15th, June 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Colombian poet sells his testicles to fund European peace tour
MR Raffael Medina Brochero is a Colombian poet selling his testicles. He hopes the monies raised will fund his Poetry for Peace in Colombia tour of Europe.
The first person who coughs up $20,000 will get to own Mr Bochero’s gonads. He hopes the money will keep him on the straight and narrow. On previous tours, he says he broke the laws of five different countries.
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Posted: 14th, June 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
French designer creates hipster statues
FRENCH designer Alexis Persani has dressed statues as hipsters. I see your shop window mannequin and raise you a marble God:
