Where are the PICS!

I checked out the plastonics exhibit when it came to Kochi. The bodies themselves were pretty damn awesome, and I learned a shiatload about the human body, but that smell of preservatives was pretty rank. Everything tasted like death for a few days after that.

Only artist to have his work on Mars.

I saw this shiat on display once. Also saw some old newspapers with a bit of plastic and rope wrapped around by Christo going for $15k back in early 90s. Yup...same shiat I do with my newspaper recycling every Monday morning...

Does it really count as beef if its infused with a horrible poison?

spill_thrill: Does it really count as beef if its infused with a horrible poison?

You mean like the average marinade a cretin uses on steak?

Needs.... FARKer.... headline

"Oh my god, it's grotesque! Oh, and there's something in a jar."

/First thing I though of.
//Shouldn't be too obscure here.

ElMuerte: "Oh my god, it's grotesque! Oh, and there's something in a jar."

/First thing I though of.
//Shouldn't be too obscure here.

Serenity

Holey cow!

/Aisle seat please

StrikitRich: Japan will use any excuse to keep you from importing an item. If this excuse fails, they'll probably next claim that the cow isn't metric or something.

It's British. Of course it's metric!



Addendum to my headline comment--- My headline would have been:

Formaldehyde Beef, It's what's for Japanese Dinner. Or Not.

StrikitRich: Japan will use any excuse to keep you from importing an item. If this excuse fails, they'll probably next claim that the cow isn't metric or something.

Just put a schoolgirl uniform or cat ears on it. They'll rush it through customs so fast it'll make your head spin.

ippolit: I saw this shiat on display once.

Whats the difference between a liberal arts major and a large pizza?

A large pizza can feed a family of 4.

At school an art graduate students final project was a box thrown in a shopping cart. Yes, a box in a shopping cart and its some grand statement about life. Literally could have been done by a monkey.

I saw this shiat on display once. Also saw some old newspapers with a bit of plastic and rope wrapped around by Christo going for $15k back in early 90s. Yup...same shiat I do with my newspaper recycling every Monday morning...

Damn ippolit, too bad you didn't have the insight to call it art. You could be a millionaire doing what you love. Instead, your just another critic on Fark.com.

Postal Penguin: ippolit: I saw this shiat on display once.

Whats the difference between a liberal arts major and a large pizza?

A large pizza can feed a family of 4.

At school an art graduate students final project was a box thrown in a shopping cart. Yes, a box in a shopping cart and its some grand statement about life. Literally could have been done by a monkey.

You are missing the point of modern art. It´s not the art itself that is on display, it is the artist´s ability to bullshiat whoever owns the gallery itself into displaying said art. If I had the right look, vocabulary and delivery, I could drop a fat, brown foot-long dookie with chunks of corn and peanuts in it in the middle of the MoMA´s central gallery in New York city and get paid a hundred grand to do it. They might even take time-lapse video as it decays, as a service to future generations.

/"Modern Art" is shiat and you are a shiathead if you think otherwise

Alright, the rest of it be damned, but I like the blinged out skull. That just amuses the hell out of me.

art is for teenagers. you have the "pfff, whatever" movement and the "eyw, gross!" movement.

all other attempts at artistic expression are irrelevant to what art really wants, which is a cell phone and a myspace page.

This whole thing reminds me of the scene from Thud! where Colon and Nobbs are poking around the Modern Art while investigating the theft of a painting. Alas, I don't have the relevant text close to hand.

Postal Penguin: ippolit: I saw this shiat on display once.

Whats the difference between a liberal arts major and a large pizza?

A large pizza can feed a family of 4.



You do realise that a Liberal Arts College and an Art College are NOT the same thing, right?

An NYC art gallery a few blocks from me once had an enormous pile of hay filling the center of the room, with a price tag in the tens of thousands. That "work" happened not to sell, and was actually discarded after its run. (That's not the only time I've seen an unsuccessful piece waiting for pickup on the curb.) The garbagemen who hauled it away had a ball, hillariously debating about what the ideal positioning for the hay in the truck would be, from an aesthetic perspective. (I kid you not, they did.)

It's a mix... a lot of times a lot of the stuff that's been displayed in galleries around here is crap, but sometimes there's pretty neat stuff. For example, I thought the room-full of full-scale model wildlife (there were a zebra and some other animals) all made entirely out of neatly stacked National Geographic magazines was actually kind of cool. It looked impossible to transport, though, especially given that the "ground" they were perched on was a mound also made of neatly-stacked NGs.

desolationrow: I checked out the plastonics exhibit when it came to Kochi. The bodies themselves were pretty damn awesome, and I learned a shiatload about the human body, but that smell of preservatives was pretty rank. Everything tasted like death for a few days after that.

Kochi, FTW!

Genki?

NEWS FLAshiatHIS IS NOT ART! A fricking cow in formaldehyde is not fricking art, it a dead cow. What's wrong with these people. These are the same idiots that pass off 3 lines on canvas as art, no, that's the scribblings of a 2 year old, or there was one that filled a room full of balloons and said it represented mans plight about something, no, it a room full of balloons, fun for kids, but not art.

Excen: "Modern Art" is shiat and you are a shiathead if you think otherwise

While I agree with your sentiments, I think you're erroneously conflating Modern Art with "Conceptual Art".

Also:

Stuckism (new window)

"A Dead Shark Isn't Art"

dennysgod

Nope. Cow suspended in formaldehyde is art. It has no practical purpose, and exists to inspire thought, or, as the case may be, discourse on what constitutes art. Impractical things that people think up and then create for the purpose of making a point of some kind or another is a basic definition of an art object.

WHAT????

Whatever shall they use as the secret ingredient on Iron Chef Japan?


Allez cuisine!

Anthropophaguy: Impractical things that people think up and then create for the purpose of making a point of some kind or another is a basic definition of an art object.

Basic definition? Hardly. Art can convey many messages, from shining a spotlight on the horror of the bombing of Guernica, to illustrating the lives and struggles faced by common worker in Social Realism paintings, to trying to inspire religious devotion with iconography, but much great art has been created purely to be aesthetically pleasing or aesthetically interesting, without the artist intending to make any identifiable statement beyond the immediate aesthetic impact of the piece.

Hirst's art pieces and the so-called messages they're supposed to convey are some of the most banal I've ever encountered. The explanation he gave in the gallery catalog printed for a showing I visited at the Gargosian Gallery was one of the most insipid, moronic things I have ever read, but at the same time it perfectly summed up the thoroughly inane exhibit, which comprised various pieces that vaguely tried to satirize scientific research.

Yes, Hirst's work can be called art. It's just really shiatty art on all levels, is the problem.