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Jean Dubuffet
"The art is a language: an instrument of knowledge and an instrument of communication."
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BANKSY

Banksy hangs secretly one of his works on Metropolitan Museum of Art, of New York.

"Stencil"

Banksy, the enigmatic British artist who is doing for the stencil what Keith Haring did for the graffiti, has just strained four works of his in each museums of New York for the method of "hang it discreetly without asking for permission". Every work is realized definitely for each of the museums; see here the realized one for Metropolitan Museum of Art, of New York. And they continue some of them there still hanging.

"You have beautiful eyes," of Banksy, work installed by the artist.

FRESH ART: SUMMER THINGS

In a few summer holidays and in the course of a visit to the Museum Picasso, of Barcelona, it was curious to observe how most of the visitors to one of the rooms were stopping more time in the contemplation of a certain picture than in the others.
Observer told to us that the interest of the people in this picture was because, curiously, this one was hung under one of the exits of the air conditioning.

THE WALL:
WHAT IS ART AND THAT NOT?

An artist claims the responsibility of drawings done on the Wall of Berlin, and demands indemnification on the part of the German State. There increase the cases, like this one, in which a court must decide what art is, and what not.

Now the magistrates will have to solve another peculiar case. Everything began in the summer 2001, when the president of that time of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Thierse, gave the ex-General Secretary of the UNO, Kofi Annan, two fragments of the Wall of Berlin. The pieces are placed since then in the Sculptural Garden of the UNO, in New York. In his surface one finds still drawings realized by artist Kani Alavi.

This one has demanded the German State for a sum of 75.000 euros, for three reasons that he considers to be excellent: one, which was not invited to the act of 2001; two, which the corresponding credit was not granted him during the ceremony; and three, which did not request him his authorization to take one of his works of art.

The episode provides unbeatable material to feed the eternal discussion on what it is an art and what it is not., in fact, the debate is part of the matter itself of the modern art, since Marcel Duchamp announced his work "Urinoir".

MUSEUM OF THE BAD ART

It looks like a prank or, to go in accordance with the topic, a bad pleasantry; but it is not like that.
It turns out that in 1995 a group of risky specialists was content in art who founded, in the cellar of an old movies in Boston, Massachusetts, the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), in Spanish the bad Art museum. There a group of healers is who decides if a work of art is bad enough as to gain him a place in the walls of the MOBA. The healers of this museum, the same as his companions in other museums, continue a series of criteria and norms to evaluate and to validate the materials that they receive. For example, the MOBA does not accept works realized by children since they affirm that the children always do good art.

MONET'S CATARACTS

The father of the Impressionism, Claude Monet, was not near to the abstraction at the end of his life, simply he was suffering cataracts, according to an experiment carried out by an American scientist.

According to the Medical center of Stanford's University (USA), an experience carried out by Michael Marmor, teacher of ophthalmology of this university, sample that the pintutras of Claude Monet (1840-1926) and of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) did not want to change of style at the end of his life and to come closer the abstraction, but they were suffering illnesses of the sight tied at the age.

Degas was suffering degeneration to blacken and Monet cataracts, according to the teacher, who has recreated for a computer, across a filters system and resting on documents of the epoch, the images that two artists saw.

CRITICS OF GIVING CREDIT

Something similar happened in the Cultural center of Valencia with a clothes rack that was deserving the comments of a group of four critics, during the opening act.
Some jester placed a card similar to those that they were accompanying to the rest of exposed works, and the "wise" critics, after reading it, did not hesitate to comment on the originality of "the work".

DO YOU LOOK FOR COUPLE?
... VETO TO THE MUSEUM

In accordance with a survey realized to 500 persons in England, the Victory and Albert Museum of London is the place most romantic and most adapted to find the love of the life.

And not only that. Close to twenty per cent of the consulted ones he admitted to have fallen in love in some visit to a museum or an art gallery of the country and 65 per cent of the interrogated persons said that to take someone to a museum in an appointment generates a good impression. [+]

ecogemos in this section the an�codtas that have arisen in the world of the art across his history and that contribute a playful aspect with humor, ingenuity and amenity.

If it knows some curiosity or ingenious opinion does not hesitate to do it to us to come for enjoyment of the others. [pulsate here]

THE GIOCONDA: THE PICTURE MOST DIFFICULT TO STEAL

Snow Concostrina ("The morning in alive", from RNE) he brings us the history of the Gioconda, one of the most popular and valued pictures of the world. Also it is considered to be one of the most difficult to steal.

To listen to audio on "The picture most difficult to steal"

WORK OF ART INTIMIDANTE IN CHINA

The visitors of a Chinese park of diversions are amazed by the nine meters penis that gets up like symbol of the culture Chamanista. The aftereffects of this monument "It symbolizes the pursuit of the happiness and the prosperity on the part of our ancestors", told the director of the Association of the Popular culture China, Shi Lixue. But they not all agree with his vision. The thousands of visitors of the park Longwan Shaman, of the Chinese city of Changchun, are impressed by the sculpture and admit to feel intimidated.

The nine meters figure that does honor to the culture chamanista fulfills his target to attract attention. It is a question of the biggest penis of the world and it is known by the name of Sky Pillar.

It counts the legend that Ewenki, a legendary hero shaman, gave the totem pole of a penis to a leader, after having defeated it. The same one was symbolizing the force of the men and his inability to kill them. Despite the controversy, there are those who do not feel attracted by the sculpture. "A prop is alone. It does not matter for me. It can be a symbol of the park", stood out a woman who was visiting the park with his son.

"LIKE FLOWERS: NO?"

�El searcher �, the program ex-informative of Telecinco, conceived a hilarious act of hooliganism. A beautiful correspondent came to a nursery school, extracted a linen in target and exhibited it to the creativity of an infantes' horde, which inflicted on the cloth any humiliations genre in the shape of color spots.

Later he gathered the this way outraged linen, hung it surreptitiously on Arch, the fair of contemporary art of Madrid and, microphone in hand, he was obtaining opinion to the visitors. The things that the people were saying are to frame them along with the fetus: �Aqu� I see erotic load great, and also great repression �, a grandfather was reflecting; �Lo that is seen is that this work has meditation great behind �, another gentleman was affirming; �Hay a miscellany of very worn out colors �, was supporting a lady. Other comments: �Hay anxiety and sadness �; �Desesperaci�n for looking for a new way �; �Como flowers: no? �. The correspondent was poking in the wound: �: And if he was saying to him that this work costs 15.000 euros? �. And a lady who answers, lavish she: �No it seems expensive to me �.

The bravery of �El searcher � has been a monumental �y also refreshing - but it is known that this is already invented. It does a pair of years, a few jesters went to see the director of the contemporary art museum of Moritzburg, in Germany, with a picture of abstract composition and unknown author. The specialist suggested perhaps to talk each other of a work of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, award Guggenheim, because �aseguraba the expert - �Nay became famous for using these colors spots �. The picture had painted it in fact �Banghi �, a chimpanzee of the zoo of Halle that finds special pleasure in playing with paintings.

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To see video of the "trick"]

ONLY IT CONTAINS PLASTER AND NOT "ARTIST'S SHIT"

La obra Mierda de Artista, de Manzoni The can that Piero Manzoni, conceptual artist, invoiced in 1961 with the tag �Artist's shit� contains only plaster, his friend revealed and partner of artistic fatigue Agostino Bonalumi in �will Run della It will be�. Bonalumi counts the defeat that harvested this year an exhibition in Milan of Manzoni. On having finished the exhibition and after trying to sell without success a collector, Manzoni exclaimed: "These bourgeoises' idiots milaneses only want shit�.

Months later, Manzoni called them to his study and showed them his last work: a can with a clear content of 30 grams of his dregs and to the one that put the famous tag. In whole, Manzoni prepared ninety canisters of this type, which then went to stop to museums, like the gallery Tate Modern of London, and for those who have gone so far as to pay 124.000 euros.

On the real content of the canisters, Bonalumi makes sure �that it is not an organic matter. If this way out, earlier or later, the metal would have been corrupted provoking his exit. I can affirm peacefully that it is a question only of plaster�. And he invites to open the canister to the one that wants to verify it, although he affirms that he will not be he who does it.

THE ELEPHANT PAINTER

It is an incredible video of as an elephant in the India has the skill of drawing as a human being does it.

PRIZE-WINNING GARBAGE

An artist whose work a cleanliness employee extracted of Tate Britain thinking that it was a garbage received yesterday an award of the Foundation Paul Hamlyn of Visual arts at the price of 30.000 pounds (approximately 45.000 euros). 80-year-old Gustav Metzger, was born in Germany of Polish Jewish parents and of child moved like refugee to the United Kingdom, where in the sixties he invented the concept of �self-destructive art�.

The artist monopolized holders it does some time when one of his works, a garbage bag full of clippings of newspaper, pasteboard and pieces of role, was rejected by a cleaner of the Tate who confused it with garbage. Metzger is a creator and political activist known especially in the alternative artistic circles, and his philosophy of art and destruction inspired between others Pete Townshend, of the band of rock �The Who�, to break his guitar in the stage.

La obra destrozada por la tormenta

A THUNDERSTORM DESTROYS THE WORK "CONTROL" OF THE CHINESE ARTIST AI WEIWEI

A work of the biggest exhibition of contemporary art of the world, It Documents it XII (year 2007), exhibited outdoors and alumnus Control, of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, it crumbled for a strong thunderstorm in Kassel (center of Germany), winning this way in popularity.

The installation located on the meadow before one of the pavilions of the sample, was formed by a tower 12 meters high constituted by frames of doors and wooden windows proceeding from houses of the dynasties Ming and Qing destroyed by the massive real estate projects realized at present by the people's republic of China.

"There is better that earlier", the 50-year-old artist has declared, after contemplating the devastating effects of the thunderstorm on his work. "Now at least the force of the nature is visible. And it is for this type of emotions that the art becomes beautiful", has affirmed Ai.

THE SERVICE OF CLEANLINESS DESTROYS A WORK OF ART OF IT DOCUMENTS

Lotty Rosenfeld It documents XII (year 2007) it opened his doors to the public in the city of Kassel, with a popular holiday instead of an exclusive reception, as it had been the custom in the eleven previous versions. Little earlier, the personnel of the services of cleanliness of the city destroyed the work of art 'One mile of crossings on the paving', of the Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld.

The Chilean artist had given a few white adhesive tapes perpendicularly on the discontinuous line that separates the rails of one of the streets of Kassel, to form a series of white crosses. Rosenfeld already led a similar action in 1979 like protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

The cleaners did not realize that a work of art was these white crosses, so they started the white adhesive tapes of the asphalt, destroying the installation of the Chilean artist. �I thought that my work in the Documenta was going to last two weeks�, said the Chilean artist, who made sure that it was "terrified" by the happened. Rosenfeld told in declarations to the ARD that "One mile of crossings on the paving" is a work of art "nice, it cleans, adds, minimalista and that it does not hurt anybody".

DALI AND HIS TASTES

A few perplexed journalists asked Salvador Dali, what was meaning a picture in which it was turning out to be Gallic naked, with a few lamb chops on the shoulders.

The painter answered:
- "Very simple, I adore my wife and adore the lamb chops; here they are together in perfect harmony".

PICASSO THE OTHER WAY ROUND

The museum Queen Sophia of Madrid has had for three months a Picasso picture hung the other way round. The center was receiving temporarily an exhibition of Picasso transferred by the National museum devoted to the painter who is in Paris and only when Cecilia Garc�a, researcher specializing in cubism of the Universitat of Valencia, did a visit to complete his doctoral thesis the error it went out to the light.

The picture, alumnus �El violinist � and dated in 1912, was turned, in such a way that the researcher noticed that the violin was simulating the head of the personage and vice versa.

In spite of having warned it to the managers of the exhibition, which was supervised by the police station of the sample and director of the proper Parisian museum, Anne Baldassari, the work was supported in the incorrect position until it was closed.

ORIGINAL ART

In one of the recent editions of the fair ARCH, which is celebrated in Madrid, there were different the visitors who were stopping on having happened in front of a stand and were commenting in an appreciative way on the avant-garde work that they had ahead, considering it to be an ingenuity boasting on the part of the artist on having wanted to raise to the artistic ambience something so daily as it can be a car full of gadgets for the cleanliness.

Before the astonishment of so "documented" critics, this so original "work of art" was withdrawn by his person in charge: one of the women of the cleanliness that took it to continue with his work.