Seriously folks (not)

Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland

Mon Aug 11, 3:26 PM ET
GENEVA (AFP) - A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew 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.

The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner.

The inflatable turd broke the window at the children'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.

Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

I was there, but didn't notice. I was looking the other way, trying to find art-criticy things to say about the museum's light switch.

Sadly, I am not at all sure this is parody. It sounds just like the sort of thing that people would call art these days.

I can't help but enjoy a moment of adolescent amusement at the thought of a house sized pile of flying dog feces bearing down on a bunch of screaming people, like some scene from an old Godzilla movie. If this is indeed a true story, I am glad nobody got hurt. Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

Those light switches are always...so... functional...like they always need to be DOING something....

Flying shigitty...what next?