Thursday 21 April 2016

When Art Attacks,

get out of the way!


an artwork which was a 15-foot-tall, 250-pound ball made a break for freedom when it escaped from its installation at the Toledo Museum in Ohio last August, a storm swept through the city, dislodging the giant sculpture from its perch on a downtown rooftop and sending it barreling through the streets below,

 and as luck would have it an observer who happened to be on an adjacent rooftop captured much of the ensuing chaos, luckily, the ball is inflatable, so there was no risk of it actually crushing the cars it rolled right over, though it did bend a few street signs and freak out a few drivers, the ball itself, created by artist Kurt Perschke, sustained a little bit of damage on its adventure, but returned to the museum to finish out its residence in Toledo, the red ball is a star in itself similar to the yellow duck visiting various capitals in the world,


the sculpture has traveled around to many cities, lodged in every imaginable urban nook and cranny, from alleyways in London and bridges in Paris to the Montreal Biosphere and Chicago’s Grant Park, it’s currently en route to Memphis, Tennessee to begin its next residency.


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