{"id":1233,"date":"2008-12-27T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T03:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/better-than-wiping-your-ass-with-your-bare-hand\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T23:56:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T06:56:01","slug":"better-than-wiping-your-ass-with-your-bare-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/27\/better-than-wiping-your-ass-with-your-bare-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Art In Big India"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the Washington Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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New Delhi Reclaims Public Space Via Art<\/h1>\n

Festival Stirs Debate on Growth, Ecology<\/span><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Rama Lakshmi<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/font>Washington Post Foreign Service
\nSunday, December 21, 2008; Page A23<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n

NEW DELHI, Dec. 20 — For the past 10 days, residents of\u00a0India’s<\/a>\u00a0bustling capital have found large and often strange-looking objects along their daily paths: a giant steel bucket mounted on a wooden stand, a tree hanging from a crane, a gasoline can made of white tiles, and stretched nylon resembling the long wing of a bird caught between buildings.<\/p>\n

“They say this is art, but I do not see anything special in a bucket,” said Virendra Singh, a stocky policeman on guard near the steel bucket, the creation of celebrated contemporary artist Subodh Gupta. “We all have one in our bathrooms to store water.”<\/p>\n

Then he turned to look at the exhibit again. “But this is indeed a very, very big bucket,” he said. “Maybe there is something more to it.”<\/p>\n

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from the Washington Post New Delhi Reclaims Public Space Via Art Festival Stirs Debate on Growth, Ecology By\u00a0Rama Lakshmi Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, December 21, 2008; Page A23\u00a0 NEW DELHI, Dec. 20 — For the past 10 days, residents of\u00a0India’s\u00a0bustling capital have found large and often strange-looking objects along their daily paths: a giant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}