Archive of posts from August 2004

  • Kidnapped cows and stolen screams

    It’s been a bad week for art lovers in Scandinavia. Last week, a gang of “Militant Graffiti Artists” in Sweden stole a fibreglass cow from the international CowParade exhibition and threatened to sacrifice it unless the cows were declared “non-art”. According to Reuters (link removed, long dead), the organisers of the Stockholm exhibition have until noon today to meet their demands… Sadly, it seems they didn’t capitulate.