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Thanks to all who forwarded the articles about the woman who defaced the expensive artwork that she believed was a crossword puzzle. Here is one for those who haven’t seen it already. Long story short: there was artwork that looked like a puzzle grid and had a label reading “Insert Words Here,” and one woman did just that. Gotta love art departments that that run photos of British-style puzzles in articles about crosswords. Although the artist was Danish, so who knows? Maybe there are unchecked letters in their puzzles, I can’t find any. Regardless, great story. Now, if Yoko Ono had made the art, my guess is she would have been okay with people defacing the piece. She did one called “Painting to Be Walked On” after all. But no, it was Arthur Koepcke instead, and well, based on the kerfuffle, sounds like he wasn’t too keen on it.
If there are any art critics out there who wish to estimate the value of any one of these puzzles, be my guest because I could certainly use the money for Tabitha’s college fund.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
Enlarge one of your own provocatively title puzz’s onto tag board and sneak it into MOMA or some such. Hang it when no one’s watching and stand by with cell cam…
hey B,
seems that Arthur K died in ’77 so, kerfuffle or no, don’t think he is too upset… kerfuffle? why haven’t i seen that as fill for one of your clues yet B?
i read this about AK, and i think he’d have really dug this whole brouhaha (brew haha?):
“… in Denmark: Köpcke discovered like-minded individuals in the international Fluxus movement, which had the fusion of art and life as its goal. An issue was no longer creating works to be sold, but making art that fed on everyday life. The focus was on the customary, not the exotic, the event and not the pose, the process and not the artwork.
Köpcke seemed to direct his entire attention towards the media image and the consumer articles of his time, in so doing developing a new respect for things otherwise only perceived in passing. Köpcke ironically and humorously reflected upon mass-produced items, affordable, quickly used up, and then often carelessly discarded, in his collages and montages, developing them into something else by integrating written elements into his images, later having his texts read, and then releasing recordings of readings, he emphasized the importance of the relationship of text to image: characteristic for his visual language was the alternating use of empty spaces and textual or visual signs. With textual and visual questions and instructions (‚Fill: With Your Own Imagination’) he tried to remove the beholder from a passive attitude.”
peas,
hL!
seems AK and BEQ have a lot in common = the uncommon.
AK was wayyyyy ahead of his time, it appears.
h2theL!
… and if this Köpcke dude didn’t influence Andy Warhol i would be very surprised. campbells soup cans anyone?
bye
Turning a SEMICENTURY old today, expecting a good one from the BEQman.