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Eyesore of the Month July 2025
kunstler.com ^ | 9 Jul, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 07/14/2025 6:05:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber

This slumping row-house in London’s Charterhouse Square is not a “building” per se, but rather an objet-d’art from the Stunt-and-Clutter school of contemporary art called “A Week at the Knees” by one Alex Chinneck. I confess, I don’t even get the verbal gag. Seems like a non-sequitur to me. But so is most of the production from Stunt-and-Clutter Ltd.

The aim is to astound the public with startling originality. Since there are no longer that many new things under the sun, this calls for ever more extreme ventures into the absurd and hallucinatory. Between the general overload of Internet-generated info civilized folks are subjected to these days, and the new over-lay of paranormal mischief inherent to artificial intelligence, we are becoming a society increasingly untethered from reality.

So, then it must be celebrated, right? As we celebrate every other psychical abnormality foisted on us by the grant recipients of what passes for the culture industry.

One might say what you get here is a perfect domicile for the drug-addled homeless. Living in the tunnel created by this undulation, they could find exactly the kind of home that suits them, without sacrificing their identity as "homeless.” Genius!!

Salutes to J. David Green for the nomination!


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: alexchinneck; architecture; charterhousesquare; london; unitedkingdom

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To: MtnClimber

Looks like Escher architecture.


21 posted on 07/14/2025 9:44:42 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: aquila48; MtnClimber; SunkenCiv

“Look at ME! ME! ME! ME!
“I” am the ARCHITECT of all I Survey!

(And I have equal disgust for the owner - but at least the owner is spending its own money. /government funds? )

/Thrawn “I judge a civilization by its judgement of art.”


22 posted on 07/14/2025 10:26:46 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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23 posted on 07/14/2025 8:17:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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