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What are the best April Fool's Jokes on Uranus?
abracadabra 2005.04.01 12:19
i turned the bycle wheel in philadelphia and thrown out of the museum by security.
What are the best April Fool's Jokes on Uranus?
Rita Novel 2005.04.01 12:26
guess I was luckier:
Re: artprovocoteur
2005.03.30 08:02
PUMPKIN ART
The public opening of the Jonathan Borofsky exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was 6 October 1984. A picture of Borofsky with numbers all over his face was on the cover of The Philadelphia Sunday Inquirer Magazine the same day. Thus informed I went to the exhibition that afternoon and found it magnificent, and that was before I became a part of it.
After a number of 'standard' galleries displaying Borofsky's works, the exhibition culminated in a very large, double height room within which Borofsky manifest an installation. There were selected works all over the place, photocopies calling for nuclear disarmament all over the floor, and even a ping-pong table with a sign inviting museum visitors to play.
An old woman was sitting on the only chair in the room, a metal folding chair next to a folding work table that looked as though Borofsky had simply left them there after he was finished. I waited for the woman to get up so I could sit there and observe all the reactions of 'shock' exhibited by all the other exhibition visitors.
After sitting there for a few minutes, another older woman came up to me and asked, "You're the artist, aren't you?" I told her I wasn't, but she wasn't convinced. "Well, you're dressed the same as that figure of the artist up there hanging from the ceiling." It is true that both I and the figure of Borofsky "flying" over the room were wearing blue jeans and a red sweater. I was also wearing my beloved John Deere cap, however. Suddenly, I got an idea.
On the table next to me was a pumpkin and a roll of masking tape. I started tearing off pieces of the tape and started giving the pumpkin eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Then I gave the pumpkin crazy hair standing on end with longer pieces of tape. A crowd started to gather around. "Are you part of the exhibit?" "I am now." Other questions were also entertained. Then a big bouncer of a museum guard came up and asked, "Were you told to do that?!?" I crossed my eyes and answered, "He made me do it." Then the guard's look changed from perplexed to angry, so I stood up and whispered to the guard that I did not intent to cause any trouble, and I will gladly leave the exhibit if he escorts me out. The guard obliged and told me I could stay in the rest of the museum, but "Please don't touch anything."
When I returned to the Borofsky exhibit toward the end of its run the pumpkin and the roll of tape were no longer there.
CSI: Philadelphia
2004.07.25 11:31
Fresh fingerprints were placed upon a Duchamp Bride painting in unwatched gallery sometime Friday early afternoon 23 July 2004 while two female guards gossiped in Spanish in adjacent Brancusi gallery.
Professor Aplomb in the Hall with the revolver.
Overweight Cardinal gets stuck in confessional after hearing his own sins.
[Marcel and Paul laugh their 'nudist camp' asses off.]
Re: Lawbreakers? Armed with only paint and paste? or More??
2004.07.25 18:11
And Duchamp arranged the Arensberg collection within the Philadelphia Museum of Art, hence the Brancusi gallery next to the Duchamp gallery.
The gossiping guards were in the door (to the Brancusi gallery) between two Matisse paintings.
Thumb, index and middle finger of left hand.
[Damn, I should have spun that bicycle wheel!!!]
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