Illegal Art debuts in NYC, Chicago, and online. Read the fine print..

An art exhibit called "Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age" comes to NYC Nov. 13 - Dec. 6, and Chicago Jan. 25 - Feb. 21.

According to a description on www.illegal-art.org, the show "will celebrate what is rapidly becoming the 'degenerate art' of a corporate age: art and ideas on the legal fringes of intellectual property. Some of the pieces in the show have eluded lawyers; others have had to appear in court."

Check out the witty disclaimer that pops up when you launch the show's web site. Excerpt:

No Warranty. The Website is being delivered to you AS IS and we make no warranty as to its use or performance. WE DO NOT AND CANNOT WARRANT THE PERFORMANCE OR RESULTS YOU MAY OBTAIN BY USING THE WEBSITE. LOOK, WHEN THIS WEBSITE GOES ALL CRAZY AND DESTROYS YOUR COMPUTER, KILLS YOUR PET, SLEEPS WITH YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER, DIGS UP ALL YOUR OLD POETRY AND LAUGHS AND LAUGHS, THEN CALLS UP YOUR FRIENDS AND READS THEM ALL THOSE REALLY EMBARRASING PARTS OUT OF YOUR JOURNAL, LIKE WHEN YOU SAID YOU WERE "DESTINED FOR BEAUTY" OR SOME SHIT LIKE THAT, WE MAKE NO GUARANTEES AND WILL SIMPLY JOIN WITH EVERYONE AND LAUGH AT YOUR SORRY ASS, BECAUSE DAMN, THERE'S NO FREAKING WARRANTY HERE. GET IT? NO WARRANTY. NONE. AT ALL.

And check the audio page for 21 full-length, shamelessly illegit MP3 downloads. While you can. [Boing Boing Blog]

Previously unseen photographs by Ansel Adams discovered in attic, now showing at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, September 29, 2002 to January 12, 2003. These are proofs from a month-long camping trip by McAlpin, Georgia O'keefe and Adams. The exhibit will feature many of the recently discovered proofs plus a small number of exhibition prints that the museum has borrowed for comparison. [Lewisland]

As part of its investigation into the collapse of a 15th-century statue of Adam on Sunday, the Metropolitan Museum has temporarily removed five other Renaissance statues that were nearby in the gallery. By Celestine Bohlen. [New York Times: Arts]

Met's 'Adam' Shatters as Pedestal Collapses. A 15th-century marble statue of Adam by the Venetian sculptor Tullio Lombardo crashed to the ground at the Metropolitan Museum of Art sometime Sunday evening. By Celestine Bohlen. [New York Times: Arts]