that's what he said

Spiralling steel slides, a multitude of stacks of boxes, a giant floating "sun" - the massive Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern has in the past few years held a plethora of curious and fascinating objects. So what is it this time around? Something even more outlandish and fantastical? Well, not quite.


Yeah, a crack. To be more specific, a 550 ft crack, which alone comprises a work called Shibboleth by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Meant to highlight the divisions (presumably racial) in society, the crack, which runs the entire length of the hall, took over 6 months to install at a cost of over $600,000, and no one, including both Salcedo and gallery director Nicholas Serota, are willing to divulge exactly how it was done. Admittedly, I totally dig the crack (see Jen's response to that in the subject line), but that's not really why I chose to write about this. No, the inspiration for this post came about when I noticed the following headline on bbc.com:

Art lovers fall into Tate's crack

Yes, two complete mother fucking morons managed to "fall" into the work. And no, it wasn't some idiotic drunks that stumbled into the installation, these were people who were attending a private showing who somehow managed, while viewing Shibboleth, to actually fall into/trip over that which they were looking at. I mean seriously, even as an average patron, how in the FUCK do you miss this?


People are fucking idiots.

In other news, I really miss The Weather Project.