{"id":1184,"date":"2009-10-16T23:49:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T06:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/in_seattle_-_the_original_ball\/"},"modified":"2009-10-16T23:49:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T06:49:55","slug":"in_seattle_-_the_original_ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/in_seattle_-_the_original_ball.html","title":{"rendered":"In Seattle &#8211; the original ball &#038; chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Labor Day, 1993, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/visualart\/225696_sprinkle25.html\">Jason Sprinkle<\/a> and a few of his friends attached a ball and chain to the foot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borofsky.com\/\">Jonathan Borofsky<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Hammering Man&#8221; in front of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/\">Seattle Art Museum<\/a>. To prevent damage to the sculpture, they padded the chain with foam. (Image <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2009\/08\/27\/2009760451.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/thearts\/2009765389_b4guerillaartlo28m.html&amp;usg=__bTJelvYirjRwjYHxsHG-N1NsFho=&amp;h=439&amp;w=296&amp;sz=28&amp;hl=en&amp;start=3&amp;sig2=ipDZP45pUo2nR9th5WEFuQ&amp;tbnid=x3ewDSQZhfrXmM:&amp;tbnh=127&amp;tbnw=86&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dhammering%2Bman%2Bball%2Band%2Bchain%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&amp;ei=g2rZSp2-OJLmsAPW3IyaBg\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hammeringballchain.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/hammeringballchain.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"419\" width=\"284\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klosterfelde.de\/sites\/artists\/elm-drag\/ar_f.html\">Elmgreen &amp; Dragset<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friezeartfair.com\/\">Frieze Art Fair<\/a> in London, 2009. (Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/arts\/design\/index.html\">via<\/a>)&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elmgreen&amp;Dballchai.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/elmgreen%26Dballchai.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"302\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Labor Day, 1993, Jason Sprinkle and a few of his friends attached a ball and chain to the foot of Jonathan Borofsky&#8216;s &#8220;Hammering Man&#8221; in front of the Seattle Art Museum. To prevent damage to the sculpture, they padded the chain with foam. (Image via) Elmgreen &amp; Dragset at the Frieze Art Fair in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}