art for art's sake

  • Image: Chicken In Front Of Wal-Mart

    The Attention Chicken is a large polystyrene foam chicken. Here it is visiting Wal-Mart. It was part of an art project in 2006 — because a 10-foot rotisserie chicken has a lot to say about modern culture.

  • Aliza Shvarts

    Culture Buzz Yale art student Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project documents a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminates herself while inducing miscarriages over and over. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process. Finally, something that pro-lifers AND pro-choicers can agree on! Now both sides of the controversial debate can concur that gratuitous abortion art is pretty despicable.

  • Art-o-Mats

    Culture Buzz Cigarette machines are redesigned to dispense little pieces of art. The only way this invention could get any cuter would be if it were operated exclusively by puppies in sombreros.


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