At a loss for Chameleon ideas? [Humorous]

[Carter T Butts]

I don't usually send around humor items, but this was just _too_ perfect
(and, besides, it doesn't hurt to remind people now and again that this
isn't just an announcement list ;-)).  Looking for really exotic Chameleon
ideas?  Here's a fairly unusual one....

     -Carter

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   FRANKFURT, June 10 (AFP) - A large-scale painting by the Berlin  
artist Anton Henning (born 1964) goes on show in Frankfurt's Museum 
of Modern Art (MMK) on Friday. 
   For the unsuspecting viewer, the work's title reads like a menu:  
meatballs, gherkins, beetroot, potatoes, water melon and lemon 
juice, Riesling and a large brownie. 
   And that indeed was what the artist ate before creating the  
work, which is one of a series of new paintings by Henning in the 
new 16th "Change of Scene" show which will run from June 11 to 
January 9, 2000. 
   But what the viewer will be shocked to discover is that those  
ingredients first passed through Henning's disgestive tract before 
he used the resultant faeces to create the finished work. 
   For the museum's curator, Andreas Bee, the work is characterised  
by "extreme ambivalence." It is a "walk along a knife-edge" and 
tests just how far painting can go, Bee said. 
   Bee accepts that the picture, coated in resin so as not to  
smell, will be controversial. 
   But "works of art which aren't talked about, aren't alive," he  
argued. 
   As in the MMK's previous "Change of Scene" exhibitions, the show  
consists of a combination of recently acquired items and items from 
the museum's permanent collection. The aim of the regular re-hang is 
to present viewers "with a quite new spatial arrangement in the 
building," explains the museum's director Jean-Christoph Ammann. 
   Other works include photographs by Jeff Wall and Paul Almasy,  
early, intimate drawings by Andy Warhol, a series of drawings by 
David Hockney, as well as paintings by Roy Lichtenstein. 
   There are also video installations by Paul McCarthy and Mike  
Kelley. 
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