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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Giant inflatable dog mess breaks free of its moorings and brings down power lineBy Last updated at 10:12 AM on 21st August 2008Inflatable or not, you wouldn't want to meet the dog that laid this. This giant inflatable faeces (actually a sculpture by the American artist Paul McCarthy) broke free from its moorings at a modern art museum in Switzerland before bringing down a power line.The artwork,...
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adistantsoil.com (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Hey, it’s art. The art work, titled Complex Shit, is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200m 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. I live for stupid shit like this. …I really must raise my standards. c
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Infamy or Praise (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
This week's bonus joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Gizmodo blog (from Tuesday, August 12; link good at time of posting): An inflatable catastrophe second only to the Hindenburg disaster has occurred in Bern Switzerland at the Paul Klee Center art museum. A house-sized inflatable turd designed by American artist Paul McCarthy broke free from its moorings in...
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Truemors (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Many might say that modern art stinks, but this was especially the case in Bern, Switzerland the night of July 31st. American artist, Paul Smith’s work, consisting of giant inflatable turds, blew away from its installation site in front of the Zentrum Paul Klee museum taking down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window. [...]
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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
How's this for continuity? Yankee poo pedlar Paul McCarthy - I am not going to call him an artist - caused an expensive whoopsie when his latest tosh Complex Shit broke free of its moorings at the Zentrum Paul Klee museum in Switzerland and brought down a power line. News of the runaway "inflatable dog turd", as Auntie delicately puts it, reached Britain's shores today, despite...
