Around Shanghai: Fake doctors, scat collectors and tattooed Louis Vuitton pigs

UPDATE: The pigs have been banned from the art show.

• This pair of pigs tattooed with Louis Vuitton logos will be on exhibition Monday at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair together with eight other tattooed pigs. They're the unconventional works of Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye who just sold a tattoo on the back of a Swiss man which depicts the Virgin Mary with a lifeless skull (click for image) for a record €150,000. The extraordinary transaction allows for the 35-hour work to be removed from the bearer's skin upon death and handed over to the buyer. The tattoo will also be on exhibition in Shanghai — attached to the man we assume.
• A 38 year old man who has the habit of collecting his own urine and excrement in thousands of wine bottles at home found himself buried under them in a household accident and had to be rescued by a "very brave" fireman after neighbours heard his cries for help and rang the police. We think the fireman deserves an award.
• A fire broke out yesterday in the construction site of the World Expo 2010 in Puxi.
• A 45 year old man has just been jailed for 2.5 years for wearing medical gowns and posing as a doctor to trick patients out of their hospital deposits.
• Shanghai police yesterday charged a jilted lover for stabbing his girlfriend in a failed murder and suicide attempt.

Photo from art218.com