----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Robinson"
This might be a complete co-incidence, but it's got a moo moo, a 23, graffiti and abandoning art in it so it probably deserves to live in the list archives... Militant graffiti artists August 20, 2004 Swedish graffiti artists kidnapped a fibreglass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade, held power drills to its head and threatened to "sacrifice" it unless the sculptures were declared "non-art".
Terrorism, false idols, sacred cows... I just wanna Scream: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/23/scream.theft/ http://hemsidor.torget.se/users/a/artlu/english/ "Graffiti came to Sweden in the beginning of the eighties. The 17:th of August 1984 the hip hop movie "Beat street" was showed in cinemas for the first time in Sweden. Shortly after that, Swedish television showed "Style wars", a documentary by Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver about the hip hop culture in New York. This resulted in a lot of Swedish youths starting to paint graffiti. One of the first graffitipainter in Sweden was Disey, an artinterested guy from Trångsund, a suburb to Stockholm." seek