They amazing - love it.

I also loved La Princesse - the Scouse Spider. I missed it sadly but my cousins saw it and said it was amazing.

Fabulous. I can't believe it has already been 20 years.

Times like this I wish I lived in London to see Grayson Perry at the wonderful gallery, Victoria Miro.

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Riiiiiight. I have absolutely nothing to say about that.

I think may possibly top the Excalibur ride at Drayton Manor Park, although it's a close call!

art/wank - the line is fine.

Bugger me.


eta: Pun actually not intended, believe it or not. My brain just zapped the instant I hit reply.

I may visit this. I have a performance piece I would like to premiere there called "Beat Cunt To A Pulp"

Wark.

Fline.



I really cannot muster anything more coherent than that.

S'not real.

The real 'rape tunnel'

Clever hoax though, almost art in and of itself.

Got to be a hoax. There is no way that something like that would ever get sponsorship or a venue, let alone the fact that he'd be shut down this first second the exhibit opened. Still, it's a disgusting idea.

I'd would be immensly tempted to crawl into it.

If it did exist, and anyone did, then it wouldn't be rape.

But it doesn't so you can't.

It would. But anyone who crawls through something called The Rape Tunnel...

My favourite line is

What if a police officer crawls through the tunnel?

Then I will probably go to jail. But before that I’ll try my very best to sexually assault him or her.

I think it's just Chris Morris mucking about.

Does anybody know if he really did the 'punch in the face tunnel', or whatever it was supposed to be called, he claimed to.

None of it is real, it's a 'comment on contemporary art'

quite a clever one I thought

Agreed.

Wish I'd had seen this 'rape tunnel' lark sooner - Kevin Smith was telling me about it in the cab on the way back from Newnsight Review on Friday, but neither of us knew enough to figure out what the hell it was supposed to be about. Funny.

The people in the comments are taking it very seriously.

Ellie, honey, I think you might have dropped something, there.

Hm? What's that, sorry?

Tee hee.

FUCKING HELL!

Was he still wearing the dressing gown?

"Blah blah blah blah NAME DROP blah blah blah I WORK WITH SLEBS blah blah blah."

Not that I'm jealous or anything.

Does the Rape Tunnel lead to Julie's plastic sheeted room?

Brilliant hoax, BTW.

I've seen a painting by an artist I like, I just wish I could afford the £300 it costs

Paintings on old computer disks by Nick Gentry are pretty fantastic...

Those are pretty great. Bookmarked!

Tempory art says goodbye to 60s estate...

Walking past the Dukes theatre in Lancaster last night, my friend remembered that he had been invited to a private viewing of an exhibition of paintings, photography and sculpture so we went in to have a look. The exhibition is called 'Shared Perspectives' and is by brothers Simon and John Nixon and although I know nothing about art, I think it's pretty fantastic. Simon paints beautiful pictures so realistic that at first I thought they were photographs and his brother John takes excellent photographs and makes really lovely lead sculptures - I particularly liked the lead balloon which was suspended in the middle of the room to look as if it was a helium filled balloon. Some of Simon's work is here and if you are in the Lancaster area, I would thoroughly recommend checking it out for free at the Dukes. The contrast between his paintings and his brother's photographs of similar urban landscapes is really interesting and it's a really fun exhibition which doesn't take itself too seriously but showcases the considerable talent of both artists.

Nice, these two in particular look like photographs..

http://www.simonnixon.turnpiece.net/image/14776
http://www.simonnixon.turnpiece.net/image/15812

The first one is the first thing you see as you go into the exhibition and his brother has photographed the same view so it's really interesting to see the differences between the two. Talking to Simon at the exhibition, he was saying that even he was amazed by how different the two were and how unreal the colours in his painting seemed in comparison.

Little people by Slinkachu

Quite a few of these made me smile

Those are brilliant.

Sometimes Anish Kapoor does something so simple and so striking you just can't help but be impressed.

Leviathan in Paris

That is one big aubergine.