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February 28, 2025

Trying to Polish a Turd

The Golden Throne Heist Trial: A Cattelan Prank Taken to Extremes, News, by Admin, ArteFuse, February 25, 2025

It was a crime of absurdist proportions, a heist worthy of Maurizio Cattelan himself. In the predawn hours of September 14, 2019, a gang of thieves stormed Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, and made off with one of the most famous—and most satirical—works of contemporary art: America, an 18-carat solid gold toilet. The conceptual masterpiece, which once gleamed inside the Guggenheim Museum’s pristine white galleries, was yanked from its plumbing and vanished into the black market, never to be seen again.

A Sign of the Times

The writing’s on the wall and the bus stop…

The Street Artist Behind the Viral “Anti-Elon Musk” Ads, by Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic, February 24, 2025

Winston Tseng’s satirical ad falsely attributed to USAID at a bike dock in Washington, DC, elicited frenzied responses from Republican Senator Thom Tillis.

Street artist Winston Tseng was behind an anti-Elon Musk ad that led to a viral frenzy when it was installed in various sidewalk ad spaces within a mile of the White House two weeks ago. The ad, satirically attributed to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), read “Help Eliminate Elon” and featured a large red X crossing over an illustration of Musk doing the Nazi salute.

“In the spirit of transparency, I should disclose that USAID paid me $69M (in condoms) for this ad,” Tseng said in an email to Hyperallergic, riffing on Musk’s misunderstanding of the US’s provisions for international HIV prevention and treatment.

February 2025 Film Festival Screenings for Joey Skaggs Oral History Films

Check out these upcoming film festival screenings in February 2025.
More information is here

Dam Short Film Festival
“Joey Skaggs: Stop BioPEEP” (20:20)
Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 10:00 am
Boulder City, NV
Documentary B Section
Tickets: https://bit.ly/DamFilmFest
&
New Delhi Film Festival
“Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project” (16:22)
Saturday, February 22, 2025 from 2:00pm – 9:00 pm
New Delhi, India
India International Centre
Tickets: TBA

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024

“Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project” Wins Best TV/Web Episode

29 years ago, Joey Skaggs created The Solomon Project, a series of super computers utilizing AI to replace the entire American judicial system… What could possibly go wrong?

Last month (September 2024), Joey Skaggs’ oral history documentary, “Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project,” an episode in the oral history series, “Joey Skaggs Satire and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond,” was awarded Best TV/Web Episode by the Williamsburg International Film and Music Competition (WilliFest).

Next month (November, 2024), it will be featured in the NewsFest Film and Writers’ Festival and the South Carolina Underground Film Festival!

Screening details are here.

September 24, 2024

Hippie Bus Tour to Queens Remembered!

Exclusive from the Joey Skaggs Vault!

September 22, 1968, Joey Skaggs took 60 bearded, beaded, long haired camera toting hippies on the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens, giving the “squares” a taste of their own medicine. Skaggs called it his cultural exchange tour. East Villagers, including Yayoi Kusama, Paul Krassner, and the Group Image rock and roll band, joined in the satirical reversal.