CULTURE BUZZ – 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.

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The Best Links:

1. Attention Chicken! The Gallery

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.

The Best Links:

1. Yale Threatens to Ban Shvarts’ Art Project from Show
2. Aliza Shvarts Inspired Jewelry (!!!)
3. Aliza Shvarts’ Uterine Lining Inspires Jewelry Maker
4. Further developments reveal the “art project” is a hoax.
5. University calls art project a fiction; Shvarts ‘08 disputes Yale’s claim
6. Yale Daily News - For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse
7. Controversy Over Abortion Art
8. That Abortion Art Project, in the Artist’s Own Words
9. Bleeding for Her Art
10. Most people find this gross.
11. Did she punk us?
12. Check Out a 2004 Photo of Shvarts
13. Liberal Ivy League Art Project Not Appreciated by All
14. Here Is Some of My Abortion Art…It’s Pretty Gross
15. Poor Aliza’s Cry for Attention
16. I Don’t Get It, But At Least It’ll Get People Talking
17. Artist Or Violator of Ethics?
18. How Did She Get the Donors?
19. Yale Student Lowers Historical Definition of Art to New Lows
20. Can’t Start Conversation about Abortion; Too Busy Puking
21. She Claims It Wasn’t For Shock Value

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.

The Best Links:

1. Art-o-Mat: The Official Page
2. The Art-O-Mat Pool On Flickr
3. Video: Dawn Visits a Art-o-Mat in Madison, Wisconsin
4. The Art-o-Mat At the Chambers Hotel In Minneapolis Dispenses “Person Passion Puppets”
5. SO MUCH TINY ART!
6. ABC News Covers Art-o-Mats
7. Rachael Ray Is Down With Art-o-Mats
8. Art-o-mat Merch!?
9. If You Can’t Get to an Art-o-Mat, You Can Fill Out a Questionnaire and Get Random Tiny Art in the Mail!