6.30.2004
stephen thaler, is this for real? the machine that invents... (originally from st louis post-dispatch, tina hesman, 01.25.04)
6.17.2004
freeway blogger: big political signs on highway overpasses. questionthetruth here i come
6.14.2004
Uninvited Artist Posts Work at 4 Museums
Wed Jun 9, 2:54 PM ET
By ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - Paintings of President Bush (news - web sites) and former
President Clinton (news - web sites), accompanied by messages referring to
the artist's bodily fluids, mysteriously appeared last week on the walls
of two major city museums and reportedly at two other museums in
Philadelphia and Washington.
Harold Holzer, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said
Wednesday that a cartoon-type painting of Bush against a background of
shredded dollar bills was found hanging Saturday on the wall near an exit
in the museum's modern art galleries.
"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."
The 9-by-15-inch work, done on a frameless canvas, was affixed to the wall
with double-sided tape. A label taped next to the painting said it was
made with "acrylic, legal tender and the artist's semen."
Apparently no one saw it being put up.
Similar paintings of Bush and Clinton were left Saturday at the Guggenheim
Museum. Police and FBI (news - web sites) agents determined there was no
threat to the public, authorities said.
Also targeted were the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
Representatives of those three museums declined to comment or were not
immediately available when contacted by The Associated Press.
Citing an unidentified source, the Post said the intruder left typewritten
notes at all four locations that read: "I mixed my semen in some acrylic
gel medium and I painted it in the right hand corner of this piece of art.
It is an artistic reference to the silent power of the biological
sciences."
Although the museum screens visitors' bags, Holzer said the small painting
would not have raised any alarms and would not have been confiscated,
because many museum visitors go to the Met to sketch.
___
Associated Press Writer Tom Hays contributed to this report.
Wed Jun 9, 2:54 PM ET
By ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - Paintings of President Bush (news - web sites) and former
President Clinton (news - web sites), accompanied by messages referring to
the artist's bodily fluids, mysteriously appeared last week on the walls
of two major city museums and reportedly at two other museums in
Philadelphia and Washington.
Harold Holzer, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said
Wednesday that a cartoon-type painting of Bush against a background of
shredded dollar bills was found hanging Saturday on the wall near an exit
in the museum's modern art galleries.
"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."
The 9-by-15-inch work, done on a frameless canvas, was affixed to the wall
with double-sided tape. A label taped next to the painting said it was
made with "acrylic, legal tender and the artist's semen."
Apparently no one saw it being put up.
Similar paintings of Bush and Clinton were left Saturday at the Guggenheim
Museum. Police and FBI (news - web sites) agents determined there was no
threat to the public, authorities said.
Also targeted were the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
Representatives of those three museums declined to comment or were not
immediately available when contacted by The Associated Press.
Citing an unidentified source, the Post said the intruder left typewritten
notes at all four locations that read: "I mixed my semen in some acrylic
gel medium and I painted it in the right hand corner of this piece of art.
It is an artistic reference to the silent power of the biological
sciences."
Although the museum screens visitors' bags, Holzer said the small painting
would not have raised any alarms and would not have been confiscated,
because many museum visitors go to the Met to sketch.
___
Associated Press Writer Tom Hays contributed to this report.
