{"id":821,"date":"2008-08-11T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/08\/sht-flies-in-swiss-art-museum\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T22:16:47","slug":"sht-flies-in-swiss-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/11\/sht-flies-in-swiss-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sh!t Flies At Swiss Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080811\/od_afp\/switzerlandoffbeatart\" target=\"_blank\">from AFP via Yahoo News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 122%; margin-top: 1.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px\">GENEVA (AFP) &#8211; A giant inflatable dog turd by\u00a0<span style=\"cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; line-height: 122%\" id=\"lw_1218482919_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">American artist Paul McCarthy<\/span>\u00a0blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 122%; margin-top: 1.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px\">The art work, titled &#8220;Complex S(expletive..)&#8221;, is the size of a house. The wind carried it\u00a0<span style=\"cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; line-height: 122%\" id=\"lw_1218482919_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">200 metres<\/span>(yards) from the\u00a0<span style=\"cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; line-height: 122%\" id=\"lw_1218482919_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Paul Klee Centre<\/span>\u00a0in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children&#8217;s home, said museum director Juri Steiner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 122%; margin-top: 1.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexates.com\/contemporary-art-paul-mccarthy.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lexates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/middelheim-9a.jpg\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 122%; margin-top: 1.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px\">The inflatable turd broke the window at the children&#8217;s home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 122%; margin-top: 1.1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px\">Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080811\/od_afp\/switzerlandoffbeatart\" target=\"_blank\">click to read article at Yahoo News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AFP via Yahoo News Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland GENEVA (AFP) &#8211; A giant inflatable dog turd by\u00a0American artist Paul McCarthy\u00a0blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. 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