Sunday, March 11, 2012

Rock On.




So the Los Angeles Museum of Art has spent around $10 million to have a 340-ton, 21-foot high boulder dug out of the desert and trucked in the roughly 100 miles to the museum where it's going on display as art.  The big rock arrived in the wee hours of Saturday morning to a waiting crowd of approximately 1,000 people.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/arts/design/340-ton-artwork-arrives-at-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art.html?ref=design

While some saw the early crowd as a predictor of impending popularity, it has been revealed that two groups of dissenters are now making their way to the museum.  One group, called "Big Paper," are walking a massive paper sheath  southward from Seattle; another, called "Big Scissors," are trucking in their contribution, harvested from the roof of a hair salon in Cleveland.

"In this economy, for $10 million we should at least get performance art," a group spokesman said.  "Rock-Paper-Scissors will be cutting edge.  Especially the scissors."

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