As previously reported on The Morningstarr*, controversial artist Andres Serrano’s latest exhibition begins in New York tomorrow (4th September) at the Yvon Lambert gallery.

To compile the exhibition Serrano traveled to an Ecuadoran zoo and photographed 66 different varieties of animal excrement. In addition to the animal faeces Serrano also shot his own deposits, and those of a psychotherapist and a priest. For the exhibit the photos have been blown up to eight feet high, as you can see from these examples they’re most impressive for piles of poo.

Image ©Andres Serrano and Courtesy The Village Voice.

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Filed under: Art, Pop Culture by Peter Jolly Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*

Controversial photographer Andres Serrano is busy preparing a brand new exhibition that will run from September 4 until October 4 in New York this autumn.

A source close to the artist has revealed that Serrano is continuing with his “bodily fluids” theme which in the past has included images depicting menstrual blood, mother’s milk, semen and most controversially urine in the scandalous work entitled “Piss Christ”. Piss Christ was first exhibited in 1989 and is a photograph of a plastic crucifixion submerged in a container of the photographer’s own urine.

This time around however Serrano is rumoured to have moved on to faeces. Unfortunately the photographer is so paranoid his creative ideas may be stolen he is refusing to divulge any more information. Readers will just have to wait until Serrano’s latest masterpiece is unveiled in September, watch this space.

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2,500 people have braved the cold and rain this morning in Dublin’s Docklands by stripping down to their birthday suits for a sensational photoshoot by acclaimed photographer Spencer Tunick.

Today’s dawn chorus of naked volunteers flashing their goose-pimpled flabby bits is the second massive naked photoshoot in Ireland this week. Tunick organised a similar gathering on Tuesday at Blarney Castle in Co Cork, as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival, 1,100 attended that shoot.

The shoot today was at a brisk 05:00am, volunteer models had been camped out all night to secure their place in what is really quite ground breaking art. Only two locations were used for the shoot this morning as bad weather and poor light hampered opportunities.

The first shoot was at South Wall where the models, all aged over 18, were instructed to stand or lie in different poses by Tunick.

The second shoot took the models down by Poolbeg Power Station, where passing freight ferries sounded their horns at the sight of thousands of naked bodies. At this time the rain began to pour, and with spirits dampened the photoshoots were called to a halt.

Every volunteer will receive a limited edition photograph of the event.

You can sign up to take part in any future mass nude events that Tunick organises by clicking this link: Spencer Tunick Sign Up

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Controversial artist Tracey Emin is being investigated by Scotland Yard’s Obscene Publication Unit, after complaints were made about two pieces she is displaying as a curator of The Royal Academy of Arts.

The two controversial pieces that Emin is displaying as part of the academy’s summer exhibition are The Old Fashioned Way, by Mat Collishaw, which depicts a zebra having sex with a woman. And there is also a photomontage by Elke Krystu which features a naked woman menstruating in front of a group of toddlers.

If the Obscene Publication Unit decide the works are illegal they will have to be removed or Emin and the Academy would face prosecution.

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Filed under: Animals, Art, Crime, Nudity, Offbeat News, People, Pop Culture by Charlotte Coyote Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*