Andres Serrano

Andres Serrano's Back With More Gross Art

Andres Serrano at a Christie's book signing <br> in New York City in 2004.
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Andres Serrano at a Christie's book signing
in New York City in 2004.

Anyone who picked up the Village Voice this morning and turned to Lynn Yaeger’s cover story on page 14 was met with a stomach-churning surprise that may have ruined their already unpleasant subway commute to work—a vivid, closeup pile of human excrement belonging to the artist Andres Serrano.

Mr. Serrano is perhaps best known as the guy who, quite controversially back in 1989, dunked a crucifix in his own urine, took a photograph of it, and titled the work “Piss Christ.” Now, as Ms. Yaeger reports, Mr. Serrano is back with a new potty-talk inducing project: taking pictures of animal feces.

No joke. Apparently, after Mr. Serrano shot the aforementioned self-fecal-matter portrait, “I realized I saw a face—actually a face—in it! A sign.”  read more »

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