On 5/24/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> New York Post [Page Six] - May 23, 2006
>
> ART WITH AN F IN LONDON
>
> THE geniuses who run the art world in London are getting their just
> deserts. They awarded the prestigious Turner Prize to Martin Creed
> for his work titled "The Lights Going On and Off," in which a pair of
> gallery lights were programmed to go on and off at regular intervals.
> Now Creed has installed "Work No. 401" in London's preeminent museum,
> the Tate Modern, which reverberates with a nine-minute recording -
> playing on a loop - of the artist breaking wind. As art lovers try to
> admire paintings by Claude Monet and Mark Rothko, they are bombarded
> with Creed's flatulence, The Times of London reports. But the
> museum's curators defend Creed's work. "This kind of acoustic - you
> hear it every day of your life," said director Vicente Todoli, who
> must live in a noisy neighborhood. "This is not a cathedral with the
> relics of a saint in which you're supposed to kneel down in front of
> it."
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