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World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock Contender
Sugarcreek, Ohio has what they claim is the world's largest cuckoo clock. In fact it had been on display at a couple of different venues for many years. It is quite a lovely and charming tourist attraction.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 20, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Puppets and Automatons, World Records, Landmarks, Sightseeing
Hidden Artist
Cuban performance artist Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera plans to spend three weeks living inside the walls of a Chicago art gallery. He's titling this performance piece "In the Absence of a Body." The Chicago Arts Coalition, which is hosting Diaz-Perera, elaborates:While living inside the 2.5-foot-wide corridor, Diaz-Perera will do only the most essential actions of his quotidian life: sleep, eat, and personal hygiene. He will not communicate with anyone on the other side of the walls. While he will be able to observe the audience, Diaz-Perera will remain invisible to them. Until the close of the exhibition, Diaz-Perera will attempt to embrace the act of becoming a Ghost of himself, an absence, nothing.
The concept kinda reminds me of Vito Acconci's 1972 performance piece Seedbed, in which he spent 3 weeks hidden beneath a ramp in an art gallery, loudly pleasuring himself. I'm guessing that over the course of 3 weeks, Diaz-Perera will probably also indulge in a bit of that. More info at HuffPost.com.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 19, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art
Mystery Illustration 5
Why is this fellow masked at his writing desk? Kidnapper? Bank Robber? Sex games?
Find the answer here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 18, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Disguises, Impersonations, Mimics and Forgeries, Twentieth Century
Kusama: Princess of Polka Dots
Creator of the "penis chair," among other objects of art.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 14, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, 1960s, Asia, Mental Health and Insanity
Custom Star Trek ‘Boogie’ Van For Sale
For $9500, this attractively decked-out vehicle could be yours. It's a 1978 GMC Vandura Van, with only 25,000 miles on the odometer. Exterior Star Trek murals by artist G.S. Roy. For sale on Vancouver Craiglist. Read more about it at the Toronto Star.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 05, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Television, Cars
Shampooed Hair Art
Photographer Cheuk Lun Lo has drawn inspiration from shampoo, creating a photo series in which he focuses on heads of hair all lathered up and twisted into various shapes. More info at Designboom.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 03, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Hygiene, Photography and Photographers, Hair and Hairstyling
Your Name Here
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 15, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Tattoos
Pop Art Fridges
Come to think of it, why can't you buy fridges nowadays with decorated fronts?
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 14, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Appliances, 1960s
Lloyd Canning Update
A week ago I posted about Lloyd Canning, an artist who claimed that he had been abducted by extraterrestrials who were now beaming images into his brain, and that this served as the inspiration for his art. He's now done an about face and says that he was just joking about the whole alien-abduction thing. It was a stunt to get publicity.I have to hand it to him that he knows how to work the media. First he gets free publicity with a crazy claim. And then he gets a second round of publicity for the hoax reveal. P.T. Barnum would have been proud.
However, since a week ago I described the alien thing as a "schtick" he was using to promote himself, I don't really consider myself fooled by this one. A schtick is exactly what it was. Just a more cynical schtick than I gave him credit for.
But it means that I'll now have to add him to the Museum of Hoaxes.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 07, 2015 -
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Category: Art
Phone Book Art
Artist Stephen Wischer has found a use for all those Yellow Pages phonebooks that still get delivered to people, even though they've long been rendered pointless on account of the Internet. (The Yellow Pages are still periodically dumped at my front door and go straight from there into the recycling bin.) Wischer has stacked up 3000 of them in a display at the Plains Art Museum titled "In Crypt: On New Worlds Re-Ordered."Says Amy Richardson of the museum: "When people come into the museum and this is right in our entrance area they stop and they're astonished, because at first they think it's a huge wall of bricks or wood and then they realize it's phone books." [wdaz.com, plainsart.org]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 03, 2015 -
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Category: Art
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