The radical art collective Voina is facing charges for hooliganism after the group painted a 210-foot penis a drawbridge in St. Petersburg. The group, however, will also receive an art prize from the Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Contemporary Art.
The seven-member jury cited the fact that the work gained such a wide audience via the Internet. Here is the most interesting quote in the article below: “No one wanted to look like a conformist,” said Mr. Yerofeyev, a prominent intellectual who has long championed Voina, which means war.”
The fact that it is not even a good picture of a penis does not appear to matter. What matters is that hundreds of thousands of prepubescent boys are considered ranking artists in Russia.
The group will receive $14,200 — which will buy a lot of paint.
The work did have some political merit: it pointed at the St. Petersburg headquarters of the state security service, who are widely viewed as colossal di . . . jerks.
Source: New York Times
Buddha, Thanks for the information, yet again… Hopefully, it will stick this time. 🙂
anon nurse,
You are most welcome.
As to the embedding problem?
WordPress seems a bit temperamental when it comes to YouTube, but I find that simply copying the URL in the address bar of the browser from the YouTube page that has the video you want to display instead of using their embedding code tends to bypass the WordPress issues most of the time.
Buddha,
Thanks for that — laughter is very good. What’s not to love about this blog… (Well, I could name…, but I won’t…)
Anyway, thanks, as well, for posting the link for me. What AM I doing wrong?
seamus, 🙂
Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman
The Tubes/Snyder
It was a normal date with my girlfriend Sue
Blond hair, blue eyes, and five-foot-two
The night was cold, the stars were bright
From over her shoulder came a strange light
We parked the car down at Three-Mile Point
The top was down, we were really going
I heard her cry, the reactor flared
She grew and grew, I freaked and stared
Attack of the fifty-foot woman
Our love was at an end
All she did to get her kicks
Was step on all the men
I had to run just to save my skin
She scooped me up, I could not win
“My God,” I screamed, to my distress
Got a fifty foot woman in a five-foot dress
Attack of the fifty-foot woman
Our love was at an end
All she did to get her kicks
Was step on all the men
Attack of the fifty-foot woman
Our love was at an end
All she did to get her kicks
Was step on all the men
Look out here she comes
the biggest pair on earth
So scared I gotta go with her
The National Guard couldn’t shoot her down
Before she left she really trashed our town
She left me there, though I tried and tried
A fifty foot woman’s never satisfied
Attack of the fifty-foot woman
Our love was at an end
All she did to get her kicks
Was step on all the men
http://www.thetubes.com/lyrics/fiftyft.htm
A few years ago I, along with a friend, shuffled a hundred foot wang in the freshly fallen snow beneath the St. Louis Arch (while his wife and son watched from high above in the Arch). Although my memory of the incident is not perfect, I believe beer was involved. We were not arrested, and sadly, we recieved no recognition from The Ministry of Culture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2cLmbCyzhE&feature=youtu.be
lol,
That’s a classic trailer, anon nurse. I can remember watching that movie as a kid on one of the weekend horror/sci-fi fests frequently put on by local TV in those days and just laughing my butt off at that huge paper-mache and plywood hand swinging through the room.
Might I also submit for your approval, this song by The Tubes . . .
http://youtu.be/F2cLmbCyzhE
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2cLmbCyzhE?rel=0&w=480&h=390%5D
Buddha…I am betting they are walking around with a building and they are indeed happy to see you….Yes….happy…
Rafflaw, “They may need the award to pay for their legal fees and fines.”
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Just what I was thinking, maybe the award itself was a political statement.