Newsfront
October, 2010
A Hard Act to Followst. Petersburg—It took 23 seconds for members of a subversive art group called Voina ("War") to pour paint in the outline of a 213-foot-tall "giant galactic space dick" on a bridge that, when it rose at 1:40 a.m., stood in clear view of the local office of the Federal Security Service, a successor to the KGB. As a blogger for Russia! magazine observed, "Bad politics breeds good reactionary art." Bridge workers detained one artist as he outlined...
