That’s what this guy’s art project was called.

Source: New York Times:

A Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama,” in neatly stenciled letters on the plate glass windows at street level.

I has an art!

By 9:30 a.m., New York City police detectives and Secret Service agents had shut down the exhibition, and building workers had quickly covered over the inflammatory title with large sheets of brown paper and blue masking tape. The gallery is across the street from the southern entrance to The New York Times building.

Noooooo! You be stealin’ my art!!

Later, Mr. Arboleda, who is 27, said in an interview: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful. It’s about character assassination — about how Obama and Hillary have been portrayed by the media.” He added, “It’s about the media.”

I has a new art.

Mr. Arboleda was led off to the Midtown South police precinct for what he called an interrogation. “The Secret Service had to do a whole questionnaire with me,” he said. “It was about an hour of questioning. They asked if I owned guns, if I was a violent person, if I had ever been institutionalized. The exhibition is supposed to be about character assassination. It’s philosophical and metaphorical.”

A Series of You Tubes put up a vid of, we guess, the dudes getting ready to set up their art installation. It involves multiple boards being carried around the city which, when assembled, represent a big black penis. The final board reads “Once You Go Barack…”

Warning: video NSFW:

Personally, we like the video because it uses “Take Five” by Dave Brubeck. Even silly art installations get much better with Take Five being played over them.

Now available for the whole family to enjoy on the Sundance Channel, Green Porno is a series of short films written by, directed by, and starring Isabella Rossellini, which will also air on cell phones. So when you are in line at the post office and see somebody with a cell phone that has some strange woman dressed as a bug and simulating sex on it, don’t freak. It’s just “art”!

In Green Porno, Rossellini re-enacts mating rituals of the dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, worm, snail and housefly. If you were wondering whether the experience of Blue Velvet had affected Rossellini in any way, these films will put that particular question to rest. Gee, thanks, David Lynch.

Take a look at Green Porno if your boss or children aren’t around. Watch Isabella dressed as an earthworm, talking about her anus and slimy body. Listen to her talking about cleaning the dragonfly’s vagina! Entomologists now have their own erotic cinema! The Snail movie is the best. Watch how happy Isabella is when she twists her snail body and exclaims “My anus is at the top of my head!” (She likes to say “anus” alot). “Sadomasichism excites me!” We know.

Ancient meteorite goes unsold as dino dung sells:

Some dinosaur dung was snapped up at auction in New York even as a 4.5 billion year old meteorite which was supposed to top the sale went unsold.

The two chunks of 130-million-year-old coprolite (Jurassic-era), otherwise known as fossilized dinosaur dung, fetched $960 (more than double their maximum estimate) at Bonhams in New York on Wednesday.

However, the meteorite, on which a Chinese desert hiker habitually ate lunch before he discovered it was valuable, failed to meet the minimum reserve. Bonhams had expected it to sell for $2.25 million to $2.75 million.

The owner of the meteorite, Marvin Kilgore, the curator at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Meteorite Center, was mystified by the sale of the fossilized dung which is much more common than rocks that have fallen from space. “Some people want it on their shelves, I guess,” he said.

Motto: Crap sells.

Craigslist is always a source of great amusement.

Take this posting, for example:

For Sale - beautiful pink “vagina couch” that I made in art school and no longer have space for. The couch is large: measures 5′ 3″ long, 3′ 3″ wide at the middle, and stands 2′ 3″ tall. The couch must be picked up in Mendocino. I am asking for $600 and a loving home! Call Willow.

Some jokes write themselves.

Apparently, this is an old posting. I need to surf Craigs more.

For her senior thesis, Yale student Aliza Shvarts presented “a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself ‘as often as possible’ while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages.” On display is plastic sheeting smeared with the uterine blood and tissue from her various miscarriages and a video of herself miscarrying into a bathtub.

“I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity,” Shvarts tells the Yale Daily News. “I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”

As was to be expected, many people were beside themselves with anger and disbelief over this. Except, it’s a hoax.

According to a statement by Yale University spokesperson Helaine S. Klasky,

Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages. The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.

She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art.

Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.

We think there are still serious mental health concerns to raise over someone who would produce this kind of “art”.

designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.

“Designed to draw attention” is correct. As for the “ambiguity” issue - well, that’s been going on for years and we’re sure other people have done it better. This kind of “performance art” was satired rathe well by Mr. Show.