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People With Too Much Time on Their Hands
The Baltimore Sun reported in June that New York City artist Todd Alden recently asked 400 art collectors worldwide to send him samples of their feces so he can offer them for sale in personalized tins. Said Alden, “Scatology is emerging as an increasingly significant part of artistic inquiry in the 1990s.” The feces of Italian artist Piero Manzoni, canned in 1961, recently sold for $75,000.
In June a show in High Falls, New York, featured the paintings of Kansas City, Missouri, artist Reena Schultz, who says the works were inspired by her communing with famous dead artists (van Gogh, Renoir, Pissarro, Chagall, Rembrandt, Holbein, and da Vinci); she claims she first reached them after having several out-of-body experiences following a car crash in 1989. She said she has no talent for art but depends entirely on the artists’ guidance regarding colors, brushes, and design.
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