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Something to Cock-a-Doodle-Do This Weekend: See Art Featuring Chickens

Posted by Andrew Beaujon on Nov. 6, 2009, at 5:23 pm

Koen VanMechelen loves chickens. Live chickens, stuffed chickens, videos of chickens, paintings made with egg tempera. Saturday night at Conner Contemporary, VanMechelen’s “Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (DC)” opens; it’ll run to Dec. 31. According to the press release, the Belgian artist is “systematically crossing all breeds of chickens to create a world-mongrel chicken.”

Tags: chickens, conner contemporary, cosmopolitan chicken project, koen vanmechelen

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