I Like to Stay Home

More about Moore here.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 27, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Eccentrics, Music, Avant Garde, 1980s

Ocupación

The artist's concept: to walk in traffic with car horns strapped to her back.

Or, as the translated text from YouTube says: "Occupation of space for the transit of cars with loud support from a portable device with 4 horns (12 v) for cars."

Artist's home page (in Spanish).

Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 12, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Motor Vehicles, Central America

Lisa Bufano

Astaire and Rogers it ain't.

The artist's homepage.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 16, 2011 - Comments (8)
Category: Body Modifications, Avant Garde, Dance

Woman Injects Horse Blood as Art

Full story here.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 26, 2011 - Comments (6)
Category: Animals, Stupidity, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Blood

Electron Dance

If this is what is going on down on the subatomic level of creation, I'm glad I can't see it.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 18, 2011 - Comments (4)
Category: Avant Garde, Dance, Asia

Follies of the Mad Men #145

The twentieth-century's maddest genius touts chocolate and antacid.

Thanks to the sharp eyes of Warren Ellis.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 21, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Surrealism, Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s

Bellybutton

Extraits NOMBRIL / BELLYBUTTON / OMBLIGUITO 8'45" from MF Bruyère on Vimeo.

Don't quit your dayjobs, folks.

Posted By: Paul - Sat May 21, 2011 - Comments (6)
Category: Body, Pregnancy, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Surrealism, Babies and Toddlers

Art Lover Puts His Foot In It!

A visitor to the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam, Holland made quite an impression this week after inadvertently stepping onto one of the exhibits. And if that weren’t bad enough, the exhibit in question was a featureless, floor level tank filled with over a thousand litres of peanut butter.

Much to the amusement of nearby tourists , the startled art lover promptly sank into the installation, a 1962 work by Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers named – appropriately – Peanut Butter Platform, but since the piece is only a few centimetres deep, he was quite able to extract himself, leaving only a few nutty footprints as record of his adventure.

The museum meanwhile has demanded that the unfortunate fellow pay for the damage caused by his impromptu art-criticism, but they may have no solid foundation to do so. This is not the first time someone has accidentally trod on the exhibit, but museum bosses have previously refused to erect any form of barrier around the piece claiming that to do so would spoil its beauty (Herald Sun).

Posted By: Dumbfounded - Fri May 13, 2011 - Comments (4)
Category: Accidents, Goofs and Screw-ups, Art, Avant Garde

A True Work of Art

I think we can all agree that this is the way Van Gogh intended his work to be viewed.

Via Win!

Posted By: Salamander Sam - Thu May 12, 2011 - Comments (4)
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Bacon, Nineteenth Century

Will Connell

I've just discovered the photography of Will Connell, who had quite a humorous streak and eye for the bizarre, as seen to the right.

Someone has constructed a Facebook page dedicated to him, which features more great shots like the one here.

Fifteen thousand of his photos are archived here. You have to click thru a couple of links (COLLECTIONS to PERMANENT COLLECTIONS to WILL CONNELL COLLECTION), but then you can search to your heart's content.

Posted By: Paul - Thu May 12, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Animals, Movies, Photography and Photographers, Avant Garde, Sex Symbols, 1940s