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Tuesday, 22 May 2012

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This exhibition is a must see. From The Telegraph:

Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, has promised it will "set our imaginations alight".

And so his gallery's latest exhibition will have to, considering the fact that every piece of art inside it will be invisible.

From a bare plinth to a canvas painted entirely with invisible ink, the imagination of the paying public will play a decisive role in the success or failure of the show, the first of its kind in Britain.

For £8 visitors will be able to marvel at – or search in vain for – 50 works of "invisible art" by leading names including Andy Warhol, Yves Klein and Yoko Ono.

She of the apple-on-a-plinth-as-sculpture? About time she disappeared.

Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 – 2012, which opens on June 12 and has been billed as "the best exhibition you'll never see", is designed to show how the goal of art is to stimulate people's imagination rather than merely present interesting things for them to look at.

I prefer a mere Vermeer, but what do I know? And what about forgeries? Here's one I tried to pass off as a Warhol, but they weren't buying it:

And they wouldn't accept my invisible entry fee either.

Among the chief attractions is a bare pillar which Andy Warhol once briefly stepped on, which Mr Rugoff said would allow viewers to be in the presence of the artist's "celebrity aura".

There are two works by American conceptual artist Tom Friedman: 1000 Hours of Staring, a blank piece of paper which Mr Friedman made into art by looking at it repeatedly over a five-year period, and Untitled (A Curse), an empty space which has been cursed by a witch.

Works by Klein, the French artist who pioneered the concept of invisible art in the 1950s, are also included along with a series of typed instructions by Ono telling viewers to imagine they are looking at art.

Other exhibits include Jeppe Heine's Invisible Labyrinth, an invisible maze through which visitors are directed by instructions issued via headphones, and a movie by Jay Chung which he spent two years shooting with no film in his camera.

Mosque leaders in Rochdale and Dewsbury pronounced the exhibition offensive to Muslims on the grounds that it contained pictures of invisible naked twelve-year-old girls: "Portraits of living creatures -- even invisible -- are haram, and Allah SWT knows best." Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury admitted that he saw invisible art but through a glass darkly.

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22 May 2012

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Mustafa Camus

The other Tom Friedman has been staring at the tabula raisuli of Muslims for a long time while hallucinating an Arab spring and in general pissing against the wind and the lyin'. Well, "To 'No,' a veil," as they say and Islam is the disease, but we've got the Cure:

"Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the Arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth
But I hear no sound
I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab"

Pseudsday Tuesday, Stay In Bed,

Lawrence "Rhandi Lol" Tolhurst

Tags: it takes more than "No" to stop a Muslim from raping a child, It's Friday, I'm in love with Jihad, veil of tears, trail of tears, Cherokee people, Cherokee Pride beers, pow-wow hip-hop artiste Elizabeth "Rabbit" Warren, hat tips to MJ for Rhandi Lol and Randy Bumgartner, hat tip to HF for randy Lol, he can keep his mother but I wish Mr. His Obnubilates would not keep deleting my comments on his castle keep, War & Peace, War & Peace Pipe, Warren pipe dreams of getting a piece of the affirmative action action, "Gibb, Thribb," squib, Robert Penn "Pen" Warren, Mr. His Nibs, Is Mademoiselle Le Pen mightier than the Sword of Allah? Will Ahab the Arab harpoon the great white Western whale?

22 May 2012

jewdog

All that exhibit needs is a naked Emperor to complete the illusion.

Wait! I see those artworks!

22 May 2012
Paul Blaskowicz

Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury admitted that he saw invisible art but through a glass darkly.

But, still he saw it "in a very real way". "And therefore we must be conscious of the sensitivities of our Muslim sisters and brothers. And look forward to the time when this sort of provocation, underpinned by mean-spirited, grasping capitalism, will be unthinkable."

24 May 2012
Christina McIntosh

Who, oh, who, will dare to go to this exhibition wearing an invisible dress? It would cause an even greater sensation than that memorable day on which 'Twiggy' wore a miniskirt to the Melbourne Cup.

Next logical step in this theatre of the absurd...patrons who wish to view the invisible paintings and invisible sculptures will be required to strip off their vulgar visible clothes at the door and don an invisible costume of their choice.

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