I don’t think we’ve got one and I hope this one isn’t going to be filled with horse pics by you know who.
Here’s something to get all you culture vultures going…
Anna Uddenberg
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@gasband , This is made for you.
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So, you didn’t read my post then.
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Are you surprised?
Makes me horny.
Her creation is erotic, futuristic, dystopian and, uh; very fucking impractical and odd ! 
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It looks like what would come out of the teleport pod in “The Fly” if you put a stripper in with a vacuum cleaner. I like it.
It looks like she recently had an exhibition in Berlin:
Through the feedback loop of consumerist culture, Anna Uddenberg investigates how body culture, spirituality, and self-staging are intertwined with the mediation and production of subjectivity by new technologies and circulation of forms. Her practice integrates approaches to gender while acting as a space for reflecting on taste and class, appropriation and sexuality, pushing these questions into new material territories. Uddenberg’s work continues to confront feminine identity in consumer culture and explores performativity by using sculpture and performance as visual platforms. The use of automobile skeletal structures and other utilitarian structures in her latest abstract and figurative works refers to the concept of comfort zone and proxies for architecture. The ‘furnituresque’ outlook is a result of multiple rearrangements of everyday objects and materials, which are set in a new dialogue with one another.
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It’s kinda cool, certainly beats a bit of butter from an aesthetic point of view
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My idea of Modern Art goes up to the 1950s. All this postmodern installation/performative stuff can fuck right off. The picture above just looks like a pale imitation of some sort of porn or fetishistic stuff yet claims to make all sort of BS grandiose statements that it frankly isn’t entitled too.
We went to the Rijksmuseum in Twenthe last year. There’s a lot of interesting stuff in there. Old masters and not just modern stuff.
At the time there was an exhibition by Philip Vermeulen which is described at “kinetic art”. It mainly consists of moving objects which create effects in light and sound. It’s a strangely mesmerising and immersive experience.
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Just a thought… does anyone know when the Tate Liverpool is due to reopen? It was still closed when I was there in March.
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Ok, I could have been more technically correct with the title.
This piece is in an exhibition at the Boros Collection in Berlin, which is housed in an old bunker.
I found it stood out as a direct satire on Instagram/selfie culture and body issues. Personally, I like art that can be understood without an information booklet. I don’t understand why it isn’t ‘entitled’ to make these points.
Anyway, I’m glad it got a conversation going.
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Impractical? The mind boggles!
Do you all think that Art needs to be understood as the artist intended or should be open to any form of interpretation whoever views it?
Once it is made public, the artist no longer has any control over how it is perceived. There are numerous examples of artworks which have been assigned meaning that the artist didn’t intend. There’s no way to prevent that.
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In case anyone was unaware… this was voted the third most hated public sculpture in the world. Behind Ugly Nefertiti (2015) in first place, and Creepy Papal Statue (rejected by the vatican - 2011)…
Glad to see the Witch is remembered for what she was eh
3. The controversial statue of Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher’s legacy is a tricky one, as she is loved abroad for becoming the UK’s first female Prime Minister and loathed by many at home for her actions while in power.
When an eight-foot-tall, life-like marble statue of Thatcher went on view at Guildhall Art Gallery in London—unveiled by Thatcher herself in 1998—there were many complaints. However, no one expected theatre director Paul Kelleher to creep in and whack its head off with a baseball bat.
The hated effigy was then hidden away in a corner at the Guildhall to keep it out of harm’s way, but was later offered to the Museum of Grantham, in the late British leader’s home town, although they felt the statue might be in danger of further violence there too, so it’s now “off view.”
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That’s not the same one that people throw eggs at, is it? Aside from the subject matter, it does look like a truly horrible sculpture. Although, I can see that beheading it with a baseball bat would make for decent performance art.
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