Barbara Kruger goes back to school

As your eyes plot the final few steps down the central staircase in UC San Diego 's new student center, they land on a red terrazzo text panel that reads: "Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror." ...

[Barbara Lee-Jones]

Pissed Off Artists Allegedly Urinate on Kruger Art
Installation

A group of artist protesters calling themselves "The
Infinity Lab" were arrested Thursday after witnesses
reported acts of vandalism on the new Barbara Kruger
Installation commissioned by University of California
San Diego's Stuart Collection.

The protesters chanted, "Another formulaic Kruger",
as one of them allegedly urinated on the
installation's floor text. Campus police arrested the
3 protesters as they continued to mock the
installation.

Thursday's protest may have inspired another
disturbing act of vandalism this time reported at Los
Angeles County Museum of Art on Friday. Apparently, a
protester threw bags of fecal matter at Kruger's mural
in the Eli Broad Collection.

Due to the two acts, there is elevated security
around all of Barbara Kruger's public artworks. So
far, Kruger has not been available for comment.

http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/38019

[Ameila Scholitz]

That is too weird!

Why were they protesting?

That piece does really suck, but ... probably not enough to piss on it.

Well, maybe.

[Jamie Emrich]

There's a video on YouTube about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[Jamie Emrich]

AND THEN another urine incident with the Barbara Kruger Gap Whitney T-shirts

http://www.youtube.com/watch...