GOVERNMENT CONFISCATES “HARMFUL” ARTWORK

Fake passports created by Austrian artist Robert Jelinek for a show at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center were confiscated at an airport after a customs agent decided they might be harmful if imported, ABC News reports. The items were supposed to be included in the museum’s show “State of Sabotage,” which focuses on government or corporate power over the individual, CAC director Linda Shearer said. The confiscated items included what the government described as “fantasy passports,” along with ink pads, rubber stamps and ink. “Who would think that the US government has a pronounced interest in contemporary fine art these days?” Jelinek said in a statement posted at the show.