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Uncategorized Friday, June 8th 2012 at 1:41 pm

These Pooping Dogs Lamps Were Banned From an Art Exhibition

Artist Whatshisname created these two lamps that portray pooping dogs, the bigger of the two dubbed Good Boy and the smaller dubbed Good Puppy. The switch to turn the bigger lamp on and off is actually the pile of curled poop found underneath the dog that you need to step on, so don’t you worry, the poop is practical. The artist states that both of the lamps were set to be part of the Art Below exhibition at London Underground stations, but were banned from the show due to being offensive. If you’d like to get ahold of one of these lamps, you actually can, but it’ll cost you.

You can actually buy these lamps, but they cost around 2,500 pounds, or around 3,850 dollars. There are one hundred available worldwide. If you’d like to add the tasteful, banned poop lamp to your home, head on over to Whatshisname’s website and drop shoot an email regarding a purchase.

Look at him. He knows what he did.

His younger friend seems pretty proud of what he did.

(Whatshisname via Laughing Squid)

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  • Dr Coene

    It’s fascinating to me that individuals among art circles can be so embarrassingly unenlightened as to ban art for stirring an emotional reaction in them. Is this not the entire point of art?

  • Anon

    This was not for exhibition in a gallery. It was for exhibition in arguably London’s most public space. London is known for its multiculturalism, and that means respecting that people from lots of cultures who were using the space would have been pretty offended by these. And that’s fine.

  • Dr Coene

    What’s truly offensive is that the humorless control the public stage.

    They do not deserve respect.

  • Anonymous

    Where and why is a line drawn? Why do we allow one culture to force theirs on others?  When one culture definitively believes another doesn’t have a right to exist, what then? 
    Why can’t we expect other cultures that desire to live amongst us learn to deal with the native culture and not expect everyone to change for them?  What makes a great nation is the creativity and free thought that comes with type of artistic expression. I can only guess, that culture they felt the need to leave, didn’t have this view of creativity and we should be free to keep that culture out of ours.