The Gusty Gusset

A CONTEMPORARY art exhibit in a Belgian museum is causing a right old stink . . .

The installation entitled “Spring is on its way” by Belgian conceptual artist Jan Fabre at the Antwerp museum of contemporary art (MuHKA), consists of onions and potatoes hung from the ceiling in condoms. Unsurprisingly the vegetables are rotting.

A spokesperson for the museum claimed that the work was about transformation and metamorphous.

Museum workers, security guards, several visitors and the local media have all complained about the smell of the decomposing vegetables.

Some shoots have burst through the condoms and other condoms have crashed to the museum floor under the weight of the rotting vegetables.

The museum however has no plans to remove Fabre’s installation which runs until Spring 2009, but is removing any vegetables that fall down.

It seems Fabre has a penchant for playing with food in public places because 8 years ago it seems he had the urge to clad some pillars at a university with ham. Well, until people started to complain about the smell that is.

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A GIGANTIC inflatable dog poo left a trail of devastation in its wake after breaking free from its moorings at an outdoor art exhibition . . .

The house-sized fake faeces entitled Complex Shit was a piece of work by American artist Paul McCarthy and was on display at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland.

The crap art had been fitted with a safety system designed to deflate should the weather turn bad, however this failed to work.

Instead the flying poo travelled over 200 metres, taking out power lines and breaking a greenhouse window before crash landing in the grounds of a children’s home.

The errant poo has since been returned to the museum where it’s scheduled to stay on display until October the 26th.

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THERE’S SOMETHING rather disturbing about spending time constructing tramps out of gingerbread, or even a gingerbread peep show for that matter . . .

Gingerbread house meisters the Brothers Grimm may very well have been more than just a tad on the well, grim side, but it’s fair to say that this probably surpasses even them . . . fancy a tour of a gingerbread ghetto anyone? Or maybe even a gingerbread serial killer’s house . . ? No? Can’t imagine why not

You can check out more ghoulish gingerness here . . .

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THERE’S NOT an awful lot you can say about a site solely dedicated to the dastardly demise of Blu Tack cats . . . well, other than it really is rather amusing . . . in a sick, sad kind of way . . .

See more Blu Tack bizarreness here.

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A GROUP of Czechoslovakian artists face jail after hacking into a TV weather broadcast to screen footage of a nuclear explosion . . .

Czech TV filed a complaint after being inundated with calls from panicking viewers.

The Panoram programme had been screening peaceful scenes of the local countryside when it was suddenly interrupted by the clip of the explosion leaving viewers panicking into believing a nuclear bomb had in fact gone off.

The six artists, all members of the artistic group Ztohoven are to be charged with “scaremongering and propagating false information” and face up to three years in jail apiece.

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A WELSH MAN has been diagnosed as being “unique” by Edinburgh Sleep Clinic thanks his bizarre artistic ability.

While sleepwalking, it seems 33 year-old Lee Hadwin is a talented artist - producing sketches on all manner of surfaces including tables and walls. Yet when he is conscious not only can he not remember what he did, he is also unable to recreate any of the sketches.

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