Well it is all art all the time this week and as such I can't believe I slept on The Times report that some "guerrilla artist" has been leaving small paintings made with acrylic gel and semen in museums up and down the east coast. [update: WNBC has the details on princeton ] In the past I have tried to use gel medium and elmers glue mixtures to approximate semen, but honestly I did not do this.
The Met received a painting, titled "fear and consumption" and described as a museum spokesman as "a cartoonish, Warholish-influenced [wtf!] image of President Bush in front of a field of American currency".
In addition to the Met, paintings have been found hung illicitly at Princeton U, the Guggenheim and reportedly at museums in Washington and Philly.
The Times reports that the pussy Guggenheim was scared of the note that was left behind with the painting and called the FBI while the ueber masculine dead white Met "needed only one detective to deal with its unauthorized painting. Mr. Holzer [Met spokesbot] said the museum's guards opened the note before calling the police. "They're perfectly capable of handling any situation," he said. In the understatement of the day department the Met dood went on to say of the guerrilla exhibition ""We have an acquisitions process that involves the curators of each department, the acquisitions committee of the board of trustees. To be very straightforward about it, this is outside the process."
Unfortunately, as of yet, I have not been able to track down any images of the art that was left behind. I am going to join with Jon Hendricks in saying that this is good shit, go leave your shit in museums, why not. The met, of course disagrees n a city so crowded with art galleries, not to mention lampposts," he said, "artistic expression can be conveyed in hundreds of places without aspiring presumptuously to the Metropolitan Museum of Art."
I am going to continue to "aspire presumptuously", thank you very much.
update:There is a lot more press coverage than I suspected out there and this Met spokesman [Harold Holzer] keeps making more and more of an ass out of himself. He def. gets the schmuck of the day award; "The Metropolitan is a repository for the greatest works of human creativity over the last 5,000 years," Holzer said. "It is not a bulletin board. For us it is clearly an unwelcome demonstration of self-aggrandizement." What a borish punk.
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