From the Headlines

Hmm. The Cheneys are redecorating, I see.

(The article is actually pretty interesting.)

(Cross-posted at Blue Herald)

You Sure It's Not April Fool's Day?

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This may be my favorite story of the year so far. The headline title, "Huge inflatable art piece escapes museum, wreaks havoc," is good enough. But it gets better when you read the actual story. The lede had me laughing out loud:

Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland
Mon Aug 11, 3:26 PM ET

GENEVA (AFP) - 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.

(The artist.)
Clearly, this further supports my push for more funding for the arts.