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The New York Times' Jennifer 8. Lee blows the lid off the world of art museum toilets in a post to the news org's City Room blog.
So to speak.
Actually, it's The Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art that documents the world of art museum toilets and bathrooms.
The museum, which exists only online, has photos and links to artistic toilets and urinals from around the world. It even includes a call for submissions.
In my brief survey, I didn't see any reference to Tacoma's "Lovesick Walls," the art on the walls of the third-floor restrooms at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center.
Anyone care to toss Tacoma's toilet room into the fray?
Here's what TNT art critic Jen Graves had to say in 2004 about the art, set inside two bathroom stalls, and created by Seattle artist Alex Schweder:
The smooth white porcelain blocks forming the walls have begun to slump and form holes and lumps that are both beautiful and grotesque, in a serene kind of boldly fleshy entropy that begs to be touched. As odd as the idea seems, this is the most private place in the center, particularly suited to this powerful and almost primal work of art.
Click ahead to read the full article.
