Peep Art: Germans Infested With Lice Exhibit in Israel; world press takes notice

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I could link to over 500 media outlets that carried a Reuters wire story about German artists living in an Israeli art museum for 3 weeks with lice in their hair. Here’s an Australian link just for fun. The story itself isn’t that interesting – the Germans will eat, sleep, and generally go about their business in the museum while spectators watch them and presumably contemplate the theme of “hosting”, the premise that brought this piece of art to the museum in the first place.

But I bring it to your attention here, in case you managed to miss it in your local paper, for two reasons: 1) because it’s obviously an example of peep culture in the art world (my favourite quotidian detail: they have to wear shower caps the whole time to keep the lice from spreading to the school groups and security guards). 2) because it’s amazing how the formulaic mass media will pick up a peep story and run it all over the world. It’s like the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair “scandal”, only with lice. Or something. Point being that peep fascinates in all its endless variety, even the story of a group of goofy German artists sitting in the art museum of an obscure Israeli town with lice in their hair.

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