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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tradition" in Flemish art. His studio walls bear ironic witness to that: photographs that seem to depict delicate inlaid marble floors are actually intarsia of processed meat, pork parquettes fashioned from deep scarlet salamis and delicate pink bolognas and hams. One previous succés de scandale was to tattoo live pigs with the kind of icons that normally grace the biceps of a Hell's Angel. Thus converted to art, the pigs avoided the slaughterhouse; animal rights activists were nevertheless not amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wim Delvoye, 36 | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...last, America's most notorious hip-hopper and many of the parents who hate him have something in common. Pills. Specifically, prescription painkillers like Vicodin. Eminem, who sports a Vicodin tattoo on his left arm, is the pill's unofficial spokesperson. Last month, in his duet with Elton John at the Grammys, he rapped, "I'm on a thousand downers now/ I'm drowsy." It's easy to imagine that, as they glared at the TV, boomers around the country alleviated their annoyance at Eminem's notoriety by swallowing the very drug their nemesis was naming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Feeling No Pain? | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Trying to smoke a carry-on bag b) Prominent Born to Bong tattoo c) Unusually large and lumpy butt d) Request for a middle seat between David Crosby and Method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jan. 8, 2001 | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...some puritanical teachers and parents tried to demonize Harry--he is a wizard, after all--there was a far more blatant dark side to Eminem. In midsummer his estranged wife Kim, who had been vilified in one of her husband's songs and in the KIM: ROT IN PIECES tattoo that he wore on his torso, attempted suicide. The couple subsequently filed for divorce. Eminem's personal problems didn't intrude upon his months-long tour; in April, below, he wowed the crowd in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year's Arts | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

...Death squads have caught on in Honduras, too, where human rights workers say they've killed over 180 gang members over the past two years. Suspected of being off-duty cops and soldiers hired by local businessmen, these groups are not particularly discriminating. "Any kid who has a tattoo is fair game," says Human Rights Commission member Hugo Maldonado. Sociologist Ernesto Bordales concurs. "The general feeling here is that the only way to deal with the gangs is to kill them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gang-Bangers: A Deadly U.S. Export | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

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