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The Munchies (this is art?[comment mine])
New York Times ^
| February 6, 2005
| MIA FINEMAN
Posted on 02/06/2005 10:11:39 AM PST by Randjuke
In 1962, the painter and film critic Manny Farber coined the phrase "termite art" to describe small-scale work with an obsessive bent. This month, the Chelsea gallery LMAKprojects is offering a strangely literal twist on this idea: for the inaugural exhibition of its satellite location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the artist Emily Katrencik is eating the wall that separates the gallery's exhibition space from the bedroom of its director, Louky Keijsers.
Five days a week, Ms. Katrencik consumes a section of wall 1.956 inches square and three sheets of drywall thick, for a total of about 8.5 cubic inches of drywall; she rests on Sundays and Mondays.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: art; drywall; performanceart
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To: MKM1960
Just guessing but I'd bet your tax dollars funded this crap.
That's usually how they fund it.
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02/06/2005 1:24:48 PM PST
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: WL-law
Apparently libs love it!
They usually gravitate towards the depraved and try to mainstream it. Remember the graffiti art craze? Same thing. Graffiti became "art" When is comes to ever lower standards of anything, libs are right there to promote it and call you a bigot or a racist if you disagree..
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02/06/2005 1:29:42 PM PST
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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