BOOTY-FUL
By CHRIS BUNTING
October
21, 2003
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EVER wonder
where the tweezers that those irritable airport screeners took from you ended
up? They just might be part of artist Steve Maloney’s ode to the post-Sept. 11
world. His "Houdini Banned Booty Lock Up" is a huge, bullet-proof, Plexiglas box
filled with 270 pounds of confiscated airport no-no’s like knives, water guns
and scissors, all wrapped up in a 60-foot-long chain with antique padlocks.
To see his work, you’ll have to go to the artist’s gallery in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe, but he is in talks to bring the box (securely sealed, of course) to JFK or La Guardia in the near future. One snag: The Port Authority is a tad hesitant, given that the piece is a veritable toy box for artistically-inclined terrorists ([858] 756-8160, www.themaloneygallery.com).
Booty-ful [NYP]