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October 6, 2013December 15, 2023

Banksy’s in NYC: Better Out Than In

From Marcy LaViollette: Banksy has taken up residency on the streets of NYC for the month of October, 2013

From Banksy’s Better Out Than In Website:

October 6 – No posts today due to shocking footage found on YouTube:

October 5

A New York delivery truck converted into a mobile garden (includes rainbow, waterfall and butterflies) will visit a different location every evening from dusk.

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Images found around town (some have already been tagged over) from October 2nd & 3rd: Continue reading “Banksy’s in NYC: Better Out Than In”

August 9, 2013December 15, 2023

Giant Crisco Can Helps Ease the Pain in Detroit

Submitted by Danny Rollingstone on the AOTP Facebook page:

Update: City Trashes Crisco Can Artist Installed At Fist To ‘Ease Bankruptcy Pain’
by Bill McGraw
deadlinedetroit.com
July 29, 2013

Update, Monday, Aug. 4: BuzzFeed names the Crisco can among the best street art for 2013.

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In what he said was a gesture of sympathy to a bankrupt city, a Detroit artist jumped out of his pickup truck early Tuesday at Woodward and Jefferson and deposited an oversized replica of a Crisco can at the base of the Joe Louis fist.

That is art in an Andy Warhol sort of way, even though most of the commuters roaring past at 7:15 a.m. did not appear to be aware that they had witnessed a real live installation, even if it was off-the-wall to the point of obscurity. And it’s also uncertain if other passersby will get the humor and irony behind the can, whose top bore a striking resemblance to the wavy, white, greasy substance in a real Crisco container.

Update, 1:47 p.m.: City officials say they plan to remove the Crisco can because they see it as “abandoned property.” It was gone by 2 p.m. Continue reading “Giant Crisco Can Helps Ease the Pain in Detroit”

March 14, 2013December 15, 2023

The Fox is in the Hen House! Joey Skaggs to Present at Advertising Week EU

Dog.DogMeatSoup.72.200 Joey Skaggs will be infiltrating the Advertising Week EU Festival in London Tuesday, March 19, 2013. His presentation, introduced by PR guru Mark Borkowski, will be at 1:00pm at BAFTA.

He’ll talk about the art of the prank and the use of public relations and advertising strategies to rock the status quo. Skaggs, using multi-media examples of his work, will pull back the curtain on techniques he has used for decades to access the mass media, repeatedly throwing a monkey wrench into the propaganda machine.

What: Advertising Week EU
When: Tuesday, March 19, 1:00 pm
Where: BAFTA in London

It’s no joke: America’s top prankster comes to London, The Independent (scroll to the middle of the page)

Joey Skaggs – the most notorious socio-political satirist talks to Jessie Brinton, Run Riot!

Crowd Control and the Power of the Hoax: What Can Advertising Learn from Stuntsters?,
Huffington Post UK

November 29, 2011December 15, 2023

Critic Jerry Saltz Offers Sex for a Fake Painting

New York Art Critic Offers Money, Sex for Fake Painting
by Lisa Derrick
Huffington Post
November 29, 1011

New York Magazine’s art critic Jerry Saltz loves Gerhard Richter’s paintings. A lot. So much so that on his Facebook page, the three-time Pulitzer nominee offered either $1,000 or a sex act (plus the cost of materials) to any artist who

can make me a Richter that looks EXACTLY like an abstract Richter – more or less indistinguishable from the real thing. (You can sign your own name on the back of the damn thing; I just love these and want one.)…Offer: $1000.00 plus materials. I’d like a biggish one.

After several hundred comments and offers responding to his Facebook posting, Saltz further clarified his immodest proposal:

1. We agree that you will make me a Richter. 2. We agree on size and cost. 3. You make it. 4. A curator from a MAJOR NY Museum inspects it. 5. IF he/she cannot distinguish it (more or less) from real thing, then I
A. I pay you the amount of money we agreed on previously.
B. You get a bj or female equivalent.

Saltz, a judge on the Bravo television program Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, is married to New York Times senior art critic Roberta Smith, and has a reputation for being — as behooves a critic — outspoken, irreverent and pranksterish. He relishes discourse and uses his Facebook page as a forum for discussion, bantering and repartee. Continue reading “Critic Jerry Saltz Offers Sex for a Fake Painting”

March 26, 2011December 15, 2023

How to Sneak an Art Exhibit Inside a Museum

From Deceptology

How to sneak an art exhibit inside a museum

This sneaky art prank relied on the optical illusion of
trompe l’oell photographs that were not seen as art.
(Such as a keyhole that was not a keyhole.)

Here”s how artist Harvey Stromberg deceived the Museum of Modern Art, as written in New York Magazine in June 1971:

“With the help of a friend, but with no assistance from the museum, Harvey Stromberg put on his exhibition himself. A New York artist, he describes his work as “photo-sculpture.” To prepare the exhibition, he spent some weeks in the museum, disguised as a student with a notebook under his arm, peering nearsightedly at pictures while at the same time measuring and photographing museum equipment: light switches, locks, air vents, buzzers, segments of the floor and bricks in the garden wall. These photographs he printed actual size, covered the backs with adhesive, and one day he sauntered through the museum adding 300 trompe l’oell photographs (“photosculpture”) of museum equipment to its walls and floors. (The floor pieces were a mistake: “I didn”t realize that when they buffed the floors they would buff them right off.” says Stromberg.)”