{"id":5808,"date":"2014-07-22T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2014-08-10T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:09:23","slug":"giant-rubber-duck-gone-missing-in-the-global-bathtub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/22\/giant-rubber-duck-gone-missing-in-the-global-bathtub\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Rubber Duck Gone Missing In The Global Bathtub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/giant-rubber-duck-vanishes-in-chinese-flood-64831\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from artnet<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Giant Rubber Duck Vanishes in Chinese Flood<\/h1>\n<p><b>Hendrik Hansson<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res.artnet.com\/news-upload\/2014\/05\/duck.jpg\" alt=\"Florentijn Hofman, Rubber Duck (2011), Auckland, New Zealand. Photo: courtesy the artist.\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Florentijn Hofman,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #666666;\">Rubber Duck<\/span><span style=\"color: #666666;\">\u00a0(2011),<\/span><br style=\"color: #666666;\" \/><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Auckland, New Zealand. Photo: courtesy the artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A giant rubber duck designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has disappeared amid heavy storms in China\u2019s southwestern Guiyang City, the\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2014\/07\/17\/chinese-searchers-are-rallied-after-giant-yellow-duck-goes-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span>\u00a0reports<\/a>. The 54-foot-tall, 2000 pound\u00a0 inflatable artwork was perched upon a floating metal platform, tethered to the bottom of the Nanming river by steel wires.<\/p>\n<p>The work has toured the world since 2007\u00a0and\u00a0has been on display in the Netherlands, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan and Australia, drawing millions of spectators along the way. The sculpture\u2019s tour, entitled\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Spreading Joy Around the World<\/span>\u00a0represents the union of people, according to the artist. \u201cWe\u2019re one family and all the waters in the world is our global bathtub,\u201d Hofman previously told the\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-style: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2013\/may\/02\/giant-rubber-duck-hong-kong-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Guardian<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/giant-rubber-duck-vanishes-in-chinese-flood-64831\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at artnet.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Giant Rubber Duck Vanishes in Chinese Flood Hendrik Hansson Florentijn Hofman,\u00a0Rubber Duck\u00a0(2011),Auckland, New Zealand. Photo: courtesy the artist. A giant rubber duck designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has disappeared amid heavy storms in China\u2019s southwestern Guiyang City, the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0reports. The 54-foot-tall, 2000 pound\u00a0 inflatable artwork was perched upon a floating metal [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","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=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}