INFLATABLE SCULPTURE IN HONG KONG

Extreme Weather Pops McCarthy's Inflatable Poop: Paul McCarthy's 50-foot-tall inflatable sculpture portraying a pile of excrement, "Complex Pile," has caused a bit of a mess. The scatalogical work was on view as part of an exhibition of inflatable art organized by M+ in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, but things went wrong when a spate of extreme weather caused it to burst. "A small hole was discovered on the surface of the piece. We are doing our best to fix it and hopefully we can inflate the artwork as soon as possible," a spokesperson for the cultural district said. Other works in the show by Jeremy Deller, Tomas Saraceno, Tam Wai-ping, and Cao Fei emerged unscathed, though a piece by Korean artist Choi Jeong-hwa sustained major damage. [South China Morning Post]