Strange artists invade the world of the weird
Graffiti artist replicates Sistine Chapel
California graffiti artist Paco Rosic set out to facilitate what he called his life's ambition in January when he and his family bought an abandoned warehouse in Waterloo, Iowa, he could recreate with spray paint a near replica (in half-size) of Michelangelo's fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In September it was reported he had used 2,000 cans so far and eventually will cover about 2,500 square feet of newly installed curved ceiling in the warehouse.
—Los Angeles Times
Imaginative art
The Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Wales, featured Simon Pope's ""Gallery Space Recall"" exhibit in October. The exhibit is a startlingly empty room, with patrons called upon to supply the art by imagining another art show they have seen so that the two exhibits ""exist at two locations simultaneously, both here and there."" Pope said the exhibit suggested the brain-injury disorder ""reduplicative paramnesia,"" in which a person has a delusional belief that something exists at two places at once.
—The Independent
Photographers with cruel intentions
Photographer Jill Greenberg featured 27 two and three-year-old children crying in an August exhibition in Los Angeles. Greenberg provoked these scenes by offering each child a lollipop and then snatching it away. She admitted that the photos were ""upsetting"" but denied accusations of child abuse.
—The Guardian
