Lady Gaga's Urinal Prop Becomes Art

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jul 16th 2010 at 1:01AM

Lady Gaga has made many unexpected things trendy lately but can she work her magic on urinals? The pop star made a surprise appearance at the private preview of Inside/Out an exhibition at the SHOWstudio.com Shop in London late last month and presented her own piece of art, a urinal. She put the urinal on its side next to Terence Koh's bronze casting of a head. The back of the bowl reads: "I'm not f**king Duchamp but I love pissing with you." An obvious reference to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, one of his "readymades" that were presented as art in the early 20th century. The piece has been named Armitage Shanks and is not for sale. The urinal was a prop from the recent infamous Vogue Hommes Japan photoshoot in which Nick Knight shot Lady Gaga as a man. The images of the model billed as "Jo Calderone" will appear in the magazine's September issue.

[via Vogue UK]

Tags: jo calderone, lady gaga, Marcel Duchamp, urinal, vogue hommes japan

Filed under: Art, Celebrity Design

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eagle51357 Jul 17th 2010 2:21PM

Whats up Gaga! Gaga I will tell you something girl since day one I love every bit of you you rock girl! I told everyone about at the beginning and now you are the new thing out there girl and you are the BOMB....Knock them out Girl keep doing your thing I can relate to it, there are alot of people that envy you right now but you what keep doing what pleases you and you fans honey the old timers from the 80's they rocked at one point but thats the pass you are the future girl from this generation, you know what GAGA let them SUCK IT UP !!! LOL!!! I LOVE YA!!!!!

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Jeff Jul 18th 2010 10:36AM

Everyone ponders what is art and what is not and no one really knows. What I do know is that when you are just flagranly stealing somone else's work, you ain't all that.

By the way, Madonna clled - she wants her act {circa 1988} back.

15 minutes, Gaga. Tick tok.