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October 10, 2007
Museum Patrons Fall into Doris's Crack
In case anyone is still collecting reasons why taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize art, the latest installation at Tate Modern is a 548-foot-long crack in the floor.
Conceived by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, the crack is entitled "Shibboleth." It's also known as "Doris's Crack." The crack is said to represent the problem of assimilating Muslim conquerors I mean immigrants into European society.
As if symbolizing the fate of females under forthcoming Muslim rule, so far at least three women have been injured by falling into the crack. An eyewitness reports:
We saw the first victim, a young woman who went into it with both feet up to just below her knees. She had to be dragged out by her friends.
As we watched to see whether she was okay, an older woman deliberately stepped on it, lurched forward and landed on the ground. She told us she thought the crack was painted on the floor.
Doris's Crack took over six months to complete and cost £300,000.
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 10, 2007 6:08 PM
Comments
Let's hope they keep the robotic insects out of Doris's crack.
Posted by: Beef at October 10, 2007 6:38 PM
I wouldn't be stickin' my moonbat head over that crack. Might be a jihadi hiding down there waiting to lop your moonbat noggin!
Posted by: jon at October 10, 2007 6:47 PM
Isnt there something in the bible about a crack in the Earth opening up and flying insect things coming and stinging people?
I cant believe crap like that is called "art". Though it makes slightly more sense than the stupid all white "painting" that some French broad kissed and ruined.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 10, 2007 6:50 PM
Hmmm. A Columbian artist dealing with crack. Sounds sensible to me.
Posted by: Mister Prickly at October 10, 2007 6:56 PM
Excuse me, but WTF, over?!?!?!
Posted by: Steve at October 10, 2007 7:11 PM
Nicely symbolic of the bottomless chasm between real art (what's left of it) and the pseudo-cultural, nihilistic scam that we've been forced to endure now for generations.
Posted by: AWOL Civilization at October 10, 2007 7:15 PM
£300,000 to put a crack in a floor?
How do I join the union that got THAT job? I'm sure they'll also get a nice price on the crack fill-in when the exhibit is over.
Posted by: mts at October 10, 2007 9:52 PM
LOL! This is the best story that I've read in a long time. Here's a quote from another source:
"The crack represents the gap between white Europeans and the rest of the world's population.
According to Salcedo, the fissure is "bottomless... as deep as humanity".
However, it appears to be around three feet at its deepest point."
source: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article2631902.ece
If that ain't funny, nothing is. I'll be laughing about this for days.
Posted by: skh.pcola at October 10, 2007 10:27 PM
Better watch out for those robot insects mentioned in an earlier article. This crack may be where they are emerging from---- HELL!!!
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=73&chapter=9&version=78
"Revelation 9
1 Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fall from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the deep hole that leads to the bottomless pit.2 Then it opened up the hole that leads to the bottomless pit, and smoke came up from the hole like smoke from a big furnace. Then the sun and sky became dark because of the smoke from the hole.3 Then locusts came down to the earth out of the smoke, and they were given the power to sting like scorpions.[a]4 They were told not to harm the grass on the earth or any plant or tree. They could harm only the people who did not have the sign of God on their foreheads.5 These locusts were not given the power to kill anyone, but to cause pain to the people for five months. And the pain they felt was like the pain a scorpion gives when it stings someone.6 During those days people will look for a way to die, but they will not find it. They will want to die, but death will run away from them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore what looked like crowns of gold, and their faces looked like human faces.8 Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.9 Their chests looked like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horses and chariots hurrying into battle.10 The locusts had tails with stingers like scorpions, and in their tails was their power to hurt people for five months. 11 The locusts had a king who was the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon and in the Greek language is Apollyon.[b] "
Posted by: Anonymous at October 11, 2007 5:08 AM
CRACK?!?
perhaps that's what they were smoking?
Posted by: nanc at October 11, 2007 6:07 AM
