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At This Museum I Damaged Navid Nuur's Art

AzraelBrown — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:56:29 -0800

Navid Nuur's portion of The Knight's Tour, a multi-artist touring exhibit most recently seen at De Hallen Haarlem, contains a sculpture made of florist's foam and crushed by his hands into a pock-marked wall. The sculpture sits in the open, without barriers, offering a tempting place for museum visitors to leave their fingerprints. I know I can't walk past floral foam without sticking my fingers into it. If a visitor does cross that line, irreparably altering Nurr's art, they have two options: a 200-euro fine, or stand outside the museum with a sandwich board, declaring: At This Museum I Damaged Navid Nuur's Art. I Failed as a Visitor.

Eric Doeringer's Smoke Filtration Systems

Joe Beese — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:44:10 -0800

The Smoke Filtration Systems are a series of sculptures that are also working marijuana water pipes. The mechanics of each pipe are thoroughly tested, but the actual sculptures are presented in clean, unused condition.

Takashi Murakami

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:35 -0800

Hentai sculpture sells for $15m (NSFW) Murakami! Murakami! Murakami! Murakami! Murakami! Murakami!

Lonelygirl15, meet your new rival, Cheekygirl10

jonp72 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:18:07 -0800

They use complicated words here. I will look those up in the dictionary later on... A New Zealand filmmaker responds to the fakeness of the Poor Pluto episode in the lonelygirl15 saga by filming a ten-year-old girl let loose with a microphone in the Govett-Brewster art gallery. Her spontaneous reactions to the Wind Wand and other kinetic sculptures by Len Lye ("sounds like my old Barbie car") and Tony Nicholls ("It's connected to those little hinge-y thingies") manage to take the piss out of both modern art and the lonelygirl15 phenomenon simultaneously.

Livio De Marchi

RMALCOLM — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:53:53 -0800

Livio De Marchi is a contemporary Italian sculptor who has developed a remarkable style, combining great skill with wood and a good dose of whimsy. No plank will ever look the same!