Tue 11th Mar, 2008, Surrealism

How balloons get broken


The chiropractic skills of people who make balloon animals becomes acutely evident upon examination of the blow-up puppy. American Jason Freeny has obliged with an autopsy, not just revealing the skeletal structure but the internal organs too, on his astonishingly clever and frequently funny website MoistProduction.com.


Added May 2008: Looks like Jeff Koons may be the guilty party in this dog’s demise. This piece, “Balloon Dog (Blue)”, from 1955, was on the auction block at Sotheby’s “Modern & Contemporary Art” sale in Milan this month and expected to chow down as much as 5,000 euros!

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