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Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland
breitbart ^
| Aug 11 03:26 PM US/Eastern
Posted on 08/11/2008 2:45:53 PM PDT by null and void
A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.
The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.
The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.
Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: airbornedogdung; art; flyingcrap; turd
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At least San José's doesn't fly...
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:46:20 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Barack zerObama - International Man of Mystery...)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:46:34 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(I am voting for McCain because he is white.)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:47:23 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
To: null and void
Complex S is complete s. What a joke.
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:48:06 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
("Jesse Jackson was an important figure; paving the way for Osama bin Laden to appear" -- Dan Rather)
To: null and void
It is amazing what wannabe socialites will classify as art just so they can appear to progressively minded and hip.
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:48:08 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: null and void
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:48:10 PM PDT
by
OESY
To: null and void
Well looks like we’re in for a sh*tstorm.
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:48:12 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
To: null and void
I knew a lot of modern art was crap, but this is ridiculous.
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:48:43 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(This tagline is a Designated Whine-Free Zone)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:49:22 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: 75thOVI; Abathar; alarm rider; albee; Alice au Wonderland; Amityschild; aMorePerfectUnion; ...
To: null and void
I’m glad we dumped this con artist on Switzerland.
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:50:15 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: null and void
the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display. The "piece." Priceless.
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:50:40 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(The road to hell is paved with the stones of pragmatism.)
To: null and void
Should have called the painting “self-portrait”.
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:50:49 PM PDT
by
huldah1776
( Worthy is the Lamb)
To: null and void
The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away. Somebody's in deep ...
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:51:14 PM PDT
by
frithguild
(I hope for change when I give cash to the Man - but all I ever get is nickels and dimes.)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:51:32 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: huldah1776
sorry, not a painting, piece of the artists brains?
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:51:37 PM PDT
by
huldah1776
( Worthy is the Lamb)
To: null and void
Must have been an Airedale...
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:51:48 PM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
To: coconutt2000
Deflateable dog poop, what won’t they think of next?
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:51:49 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: null and void
I pray to God this shit lands in a punchbowl.
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posted on
08/11/2008 2:52:05 PM PDT
by
xc1427
(It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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