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Burger King nails performance art with new Pavlensky menu

The Art Newspaper
1 September 2016
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Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky might have made a pointed political statement against Vladimir Putin’s regime by nailing his scrotum to Red Square in 2013, but it didn’t sound particularly appetising. Burger King seems to think otherwise. How about a Pavlensky Burger? The St. Petersburg branch of the fast-food chain will be marking its sixth anniversary in Russia’s imperial capital (and hometown to both Putin and Pavlensky) with a number of limited edition hamburgers dedicated to Pavlensky’s most famous performances. According to Russia’s Kommersant newspaper, among the new menu choices will be an egg. The patty will be affixed to a plastic platform with a plastic nail. Earlier this year Pavlensky was fined, but avoided a potentially long prison sentence, for a 2015 performance where he set fire to the door of a former KGB prison on Lubyanka Square. So far McDonald’s has not announced any plans for a rival flaming burger.

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