A Lively Gathering
A woman has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing another woman at the biggest art fair in the US, in an attack that was wrongly interpreted by onlookers as performance art.
No. Don’t. Bad dog.
Siyuan Zhao, from New York, was arrested after stabbing the victim’s arms and neck with an X-Acto craft knife during a fight at the Art Basel event in Miami Beach on Friday. The victim, who has not been identified, was taken to Jackson Memorial hospital with non-life-threatening injuries… While she was being patted down, Zhao spontaneously stated: “I had to kill her and two more.” She is also alleged to have said: “I had to watch her bleed!”
Both ladies are believed to have been patrons of the art fair, not rival exhibitors.
Other witnesses later thought the police tape cordoning the area was an art installation.
Via Julia and Chester.
The Daily Fail has photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3347287/Woman-stabbed-Art-Basel-random-attack-witnesses-thought-performance-art-fake-blood.html
Apparently, the stabbing took place near this exhibit.
Just sayin’.
“attack that was wrongly interpreted by onlookers as performance art” As bullshit as the art.
Artists are a herd not a pack.
I blame Neil Buchanan.
Not really surprising. That those are Miami Beach Police OTOH…this is all some sort of Truman Show. None of this is real.
Apparently, the stabbing took place near this exhibit.
N.B. the following sentence from your link:
“The “Swamp of Sagittarius” safe haven…is both performative and a service to those who come by, and most importantly, Wara explains, ‘It’s about wisdom.’” (Emphasis supplied.)
Society needs to accept and embrace the differently sane.
Apparently, the stabbing took place near this exhibit.
I have written about one of the artists involved in that installation. Plus ça change and all that.
What? Too REAL for you hipster douchebags?
What? Too REAL for you hipster douchebags?
Oh, no, any hipsters thought it was perfectly real . . . .
Other witnesses later thought the police tape cordoning the area was an art installation.
I expect the President will use his TV address tonight to call for knife control.
Not wanting to say anything, as though they discriminated against, or hated art…
The mind boggles, it really it really does . . .
So all that ISIS stuff: the beheadings, the man-on-fire-in-a-cage, the gay-thrown-from-a-high-building, the blow-up-the-man-with-explosives, could they just be performance pieces of art, misinterpreted by the public? Is there an (accredited) art critic here that can truly tell us the truth?
. . . the blow-up-the-man-with-explosives, . . .
How to really ruin your car insurance rates . . .
How to really ruin your car insurance rates . . .
Apparently they/he/it/whatever wasn’t driving a VW Polo!
Oh dear.
A paranoid schizo goes off her meds and nobody can tell the difference between her and the rest of the crowd.
Until she gets artistic or something…