Art
The Wyoming Cheese House
Oct 16, 2001: In Powell, Wyoming, artist Cosimo Cavallaro covered a house inside and out with government-surplus pepperjack cheese. He melted the cheese and then sprayed it on with a pump.Photographer Dan Cepeda, who was assigned to cover the event, offered this commentary:
The house was put on display for two weeks and then demolished.
More info: Cosimo Cavallaro
Casper Star-Tribune - Oct 9, 2016
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 06, 2020 -
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Category: Architecture, Art, Food
Hamfat Asar
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 26, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation, 1960s
Jigsaw Puzzles with Whimsy Pieces
In this pandemic era, jigsaw puzzles have seen increased popularity. But I was unaware of the tradition of "whimsy" pieces, components that exhibit naturalistic shapes. I encountered the notion in an old issue of LIFE magazine.
Then I found out there are modern makers. Here are a couple.
Maker.
Maker.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 24, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Puzzles, Nineteenth Century
Las Pozas
When travel resumes, here's a destination alluring to any WU-vie.Read more on the creator here.
His Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 21, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Outsider Art, Surrealism, Eccentrics, Twentieth Century
The Painter Joachim Raphaël Boronali
NOTW and Weird Universe have covered innumerable art world hoaxes and farces. Paintings hung upside down, installations destroyed by janitors, large prize money for unmade beds, and so forth. Here is one of the first such japes. A painting done by a donkey with a brush tied to its tail, and exhibited at a famous Paris salon as the work of a new painter named Joachim Raphaël Boronali.
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 14, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Avant Garde, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Twentieth Century
Wisconsin Weird Statue
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 14, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Statues and Monuments, Eccentrics
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 27
Bronislava Nijinska made up for Kikimora by Léonide Massine.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 21, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1910s, Dance, Body Painting
The Corpus Clock, aka Chronophage
The first video is pretty, the second, explanatory.Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 19, 2020 -
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Category: Aliens, Art, Buildings and Other Structures, Culture and Civilization, Inventions, Time-travel, Fictional Monsters
Ulay & Abramovic
Alas, Ulay is no more.Marina is still with us.
Enjoy 2.5 hours of their art.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 05, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body, Entertainment, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers
Dryer Lint Sculptures
Artist Cheryl Capezzuti creates sculptures out of dryer lint. Her latest show will, appropriately, be at a coin-op laundromat, in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania.More info: triblive.com
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 20, 2020 -
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Category: Art
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