That’s what they say about Washington: “foist in peace, foist in war …” etc
Here in Cleveland we have 10-foot-tall guitars …I think 90 of them… that will be auctioned off in Oct. My favorite is near my store, and features roadie butt-crack. Drew Carey’s entry is late. Those two statements are in no way related.
If the Green party wanted their smybol noticed, and if they had any sense (or wit) they would have dropped the lawsuit and sent people out at night to bedeck the stautes in sunflowers.
Now that would have been charming.
Some friends of mine tried to organize an event called, “Hampalona: the running of the pigs”. But they couldn’t get city council to give them a permit. At first I thought that they were joking but they eventually convinced me that they were dead serious. Wonder what that would have done for Cincy’s image. I think this was concocted before or concurrent with the Big Pig Gig.
As for these plasticene animals, I just want to know what genius got the concession on them…
Here in Lexington we had horses of course. One of my favorites was Vegetariat.
They had bulls in Salamanca when I was there. Obviously, this is of intercontinental proportions.
One, in Nuernberg, Germany, in the square in front of Albrecht Duerer’s house there is a bronze statue of a rabbit (hare?) based on one of the master’s watercolors. It is a hoot! Both fluffy and menacing. If I could figure out how to do a link to it I would. Maybe some computer literate Doper could do it for me. Maybe not.
Two, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Grant Wood’s home town, displayed a bunch of manikin statues based on Wood’s American Gothic–the sour looking couple, him holding a pitchfork, standing in front of a house with a gothic arch window–itself a parody of Northern/Flemish Renaissance paintings. When the display was done the individual couples were sold to the public as a fund raiser for public art.
Read through the entire thread, hoping to be the first to mention Wood’s sister, dentist ,and pitchfork, but nooo…
The sad thing is that the house is an hour trip from here and I’ve never been there. I should drive over on Monday. I bet it’ll be busy.
Was that the actual name? Sometimes the only thing even remotely clever about these is the title they give the whole enterprise. Boston had the “Cavalcade of Cod”, ehh. But I liked the one in Florida with the lizards, “Art Gecko”.
Providence, Rhode Island, tops you all off.
They had Mr. Potato Head.