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Saturday, 17 January 2004

Topic: Review
Death imitates art: as reported in The Guardian.

In Romania, local media report that the country's "first" institution of higher learning, the University of Arts, in Iasi, was the scene of an official investigation this month after police removed the corpse of a man believed to have hanged himself on the campus. Builders and students at the university had initially mistaken it for a modern work of art.

According to Reuters, the body hung for a whole day in a sculpture-laden garden building that had been re-opened for repairs before onlookers twigged to what it was and called the cops.

Gosh, what happened to the traditional line between Art and Not-Art-But-Dead-Body?


Posted by conniechai at 12:10 AM PST
Updated: Sunday, 18 January 2004 10:09 PM PST
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