{"id":374833,"date":"2010-02-26T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23406"},"modified":"2010-02-26T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:54:23","slug":"skateboards-are-the-hot-new-art-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374833","title":{"rendered":"Skateboards Are The Hot New Art Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703455804575057641349081402.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alex Casta\u00f1eda hasn&#8217;t had much luck selling his oil-on-canvas paintings of police officers or old men playing guitars. But when he painted corpulent female nudes on the bottom of skateboards, they sold out at a local gallery near his home in Lima, Peru. And he received multiple orders from the U.S. and Canada through the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was pretty shocked,&#8221; says Mr. Casta\u00f1eda, a 24-year-old recent art-school graduate who is not a skateboarder. &#8220;They just went like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lowly skateboard, toy and transport of adolescents and the adolescent-minded, has found a second calling as a platform for art&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal: Alex Casta\u00f1eda hasn&#8217;t had much luck selling his oil-on-canvas paintings of police officers or old men playing guitars. But when he painted corpulent female nudes on the bottom of skateboards, they sold out at a local gallery near his home in Lima, Peru. And he received multiple orders from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}