Great, Ahem, Art!

• Recent Architectural Triumphs: (1) A 33-year-old Frenchman erected a stone table with benches over his mother's grave marker, so that he and friends could enjoy munchies and wine as he "talked" to her.

• (2) For the annual German Ruhrtriennale Festival in September, Atelier Van Lieshout created a temporary hotel structure that appeared from the street (even to the non-aroused) to be a couple having "doggy style" sex (to make a statement, a reviewer said, about "the power of humanity over the natural world").

• (3) A homeowners' association in Winter Haven, Florida, petitioned Steven Chayt to remove the 24-by-12-foot chair he had built in his backyard as an art project -- especially because of the hole in the seat -- making it, said one neighbor, "essentially a toilet." [The Local (Paris), 11-3-2015] [Metro (London), 9-4-2015] [The Ledger (Lakeland), 10-11-2015]

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