The people of Detroit woke yesterday morning to find a peculiar present left at the site of one of their most beloved landmarks, a giant sculpture of the late boxer Joe Louis’ fist.
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In what he claims was a “gesture of sympathy,” Detroit artist Jerry Vile left this giant can of Crisco at the base of the fist as a “magical Vessel of Hope” to help “ease the pain of Detroit’s bankruptcy.” The can sat at the site for nearly five hours while bewildered local news crews covered the “event,” all while not knowing it was an elaborate fisting joke that they were promoting on the five o’clock news.
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cool
too funny!!
Hilarious!
caught this on a newsfeed, hilarious! cant believe that savvy breeders didn’t catch on…..
As they say: Crisco does you proud……..EVERYTIME!
I was wonderin’ where my lube went!!!!
Hilarious!! I remember when this hit the news in late July, but they left out the companion piece: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ pacolli/4647281755….LOL! Jerry Vile (Jerry Peterson), artiste provocateur/ merry prankster, followed up two weeks later by putting huge neon colored ‘sale tags’ all over MotorCity’s public art…the Detroit city fathers were not amused.
This reminds me of another prank there back in the sixties. There is a 26′ bronze by Marshall Frederick, “The Spirit of Detroit” , that stands in the civic center. Having an aged patina, it’s known as the ‘Jolly Green Giant’ by locals. On the night of Apr. 19 1963, someone painted large green footprints across the street to Manzu’s bronze, “Passo di Danza”(Dance Step), a statue of a naked ballet dancer. Apparently , they didn’t hit it off as no further footprints were found…LOL! It puts public art in a whole new light and tweaks pretension.
Somehow Squirt divided the link so it doesn’t work.
http://www.flicker.com/photos/pacolli/4647281755
There’s still hope for Motown