Gothamist: MTA and NYPD Don't Find Student "Subway Bomb Art" Funny

jc

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:39:39 -0500

Me thinks a Pratt student proofread this piece.

Number Five

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:06:38 -0500

Johnny Number Five alive!

Evan

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:31:49 -0500

An SVA student did something similar four years ago (click my name for the NYTimes link). Get a late pass, Pratt!

thfs

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:23:19 -0500

Um: "Pratt Institute art student Robert Barrett, 21, came up with the plan to leave five packages filled with crumpled newspapers and comic books throughout the subway system in a bid to show the ineptitude of the MTA and NYPD, said a police source." Because an anonymous police source says this was the motivation of the students doesn't make it the actual motivation of the students. Let's have this source have the courage to make this charge in court, or at least back up his/her name with it.

kz

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:17:59 -0500

You cannot piss off people that can have you arrested. MTA, police, stewardesses... They were probably arrested because their "art" was mockery directed towards the MTA and the police.

Harv

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:14:29 -0500

Aw, man. Comic books aren't crap! You just made the Baby Pekar cry.

ChupaCaBrooklyn

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:23:41 -0500

Ha! That'll show those idiot Pratt kids. Totally unrelated, I hope they wise up and stop walking around Bed-Stuy @ 2 a.m. w/ beers in hands, screaming/singing.

art sux

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:20:01 -0500

real cute. obviously art students wouldn't have jobs that they'd be commuting to so they would think potentially fucking up everyone else's commute would be artistic. what jackasses.

sweatpants

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:43:51 -0500

when i was at San Francisco Art Institute a guy in my class accidentally left a canon GL1 that the school owned in the subway station and MUNI thought it was a bomb so they destroyed it. they then realized what it had been and sent the pieces back to the school. it was funny except he owed the school alot of cash.

House of Pain

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:16:37 -0500

Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs. "Pratt" is the sound my butt makes sometimes when I drop a bomb.

Tim N.

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:14:37 -0500

Pretty friggin' funny... They left bags with identifying materials all over the city to show how inept the *police* are? Who's inept now? Methinks when you end up making the object of your scorn looking smarter than you then your work has failed as art and as protest.

aawerfawe

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:07:38 -0500

I like that poster - it's like the robot is the one talking, and "we" refers to his people.

Schadenfreudian Mensch

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:04:23 -0500

I think it should be: The arrest by the po-po was po-mo.

Irritated

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:58:56 -0500

The world is littered with former "Pratt art students" driving cabs and asking if you would like fries with that...

b!ll bbbbbbbbb

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:58:50 -0500

Actually, the arrest was quite po-mo.

full crap

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:56:42 -0500

full crap,yo

It's not art.

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:49:46 -0500

Sounds like it turned into a lovely art project, where the NYPD showed us the ineptitude of Pratt students. Not that anyone needed to be told, but still...