It's that time of the year again, a favorite moment for all WU-vies. The shortlist for the UK Turner Prize is announced! We get to see a selection of the best and the brightest UK artists, those figures who contribute to humanity's glorious heritage of imperishable art that uplifts the soul and defines what it is to be human.
My personal fave this year is Lali Chetwynd. "She reworks iconic moments from cultural history in deliberately amateurish and improvisatory performances." Such as you see above.
According to this LIFE magazine article, art collector Henry Clews had a taste for the bizzare, as seen in the statue above. His French Mediterranean home is now a museum, and you can visit, or even apply for an arts residency there!
I'm sure all WU-vies who are in London in the next few months will be thrilled that one of our favorite performance artists is having a career retrospective.
Here's an artist--shown with her gallery patron--who appreciates weird imagery, as you can see from the examples below.
If you use Google Images with her name as the search term, you'll find many more--but the majority are nekkid wimmen who are NSFW, unlike, I presume, the stone female below.
Category: Annoying Things, Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Science Fiction, Europe