Another use for modern art!
Burglar misinterprets bacon mask – so police deconstruct artist's door:

POLICE have apologised to a modern artist after raiding his home when one of his creations was mistaken for human remains.

Richard Morrison, 37, returned from a day out to find his door had been kicked in by officers armed with a search warrant.

The detectives were acting on a tip-off from a thief who had broken into Mr Morrison's house only days earlier.

The burglar, who was arrested for a different crime, told police he had a horrific experience at Mr Morrison's house, in Wavertree, Liverpool.

A Merseyside Police spokesman explained: "He thought he saw a head in a jar. It was obviously a very serious allegation."

The discovery was in fact one of Mr Morrison's exhibits – a mask made of bacon inside a sweet jar full of formaldehyde.

Mr Morrison, a part-time artist who also works for the Criminal Records Bureau, said the creation had been inspired by the work of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

He said: "It's obviously a very macabre piece of work, but I never expected it to get this reaction.

"The police told me that the burglar was terrified – he had a crisis of conscience and confessed his crimes to his mother.

This kind of art is also good if you need an emetic. If you call the Poison Control number, they'll say, "Get to a gallery immediately and view a work by Hirst or Emin!"

I swear I've mentioned ole Damien before, but can't find the post. In any case:

In 2001 a cleaner mistakenly tossed an exhibit of empty beer bottles, dirty ashtrays, coffee cups and sweet wrappers that Damien Hirst created at a launch party for a show of his work at the Eyesto'rm gallery in London into the rubbish bin and the work had to be quickly recreated by gallery staff from photographs.

As for Tracey, most famous for her display of her unmade bed surrounded by dirty underwear and condom wrappers, she's always worth a laugh or two.