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CLAIM: An organization is seeking online donations of human bodies as a way to end world hunger. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The website for the Human Meat Project states in its terms and conditions that it is a conceptual art piece meant to “give an understanding of the importance of accepting any services’ policy and agreements.” Organizers of the project didn’t respond to messages seeking comment. THE FACTS: In a widely viewed video on social media, a woman describes with increasing horror a website that seems to promote cannibalism as a way to address some of the world’s most intractable ills.

In the words of the great chef Escoffier, architecture is the noblest of the arts, and the noblest manifestation of archi tecture is the art of the pastry chef. The connection between concrete and baked goods hasn't been lost on Emily Katrencik, a 30-year-old conceptual artist whose ongoing project consists of gnawing through a wall in the apartment of Louky Keijsers, owner of the LMAKprojects gallery in Chelsea. Katrencik does this by eating through 1.956 inches a day. The project started on New Year's Day, and the hole in the wall is now big enough that she can stick her...

"This is a two-million-dollar piece of conceptual art. This is bin full of wastepaper. Okay, class, who can tell me what the difference is?" This is just one of the questions trash collectors in Frankfurt, Germany, will be asked when they begin mandatory art classes next month. The classes were mandated after one of the city's sanitation workers picked up a sculpture by the artist Michael Beutler believing it to be a pile of junk. The piece, part of a city-wide exhibit, was later thrown into the city incinerator and burned. A London newspaper reported that the poor befuddled sanitation...