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German artist Natascha Stellmach is reportedly claiming to be in possession of Kurt Cobain’s ashes and is threatening to smoke them as part of a morbid art exhibition.

The late Nirvana frontman’s cremated remains were reportedy stolen in May from his rocker widow Courtney Love along with thousands of dollars worth of jewelry.

Courtney claimed to be “suicidal” over the loss, saying at the time:

“I can’t believe anyone would take Kurt’s ashes from me. They were all I had left of my husband. Now it feels like I have lost him all over again.”


Stellmach says she has ‘acquired’ the ashes and has released a statement announcing her find and also detailed her plans to smoke the ashes as part of the forthcoming Set Me Free exhibition at the city’s Wagner and Partner gallery on 11 October.

But she won’t say how she came to be in possession of the remains telling Artworld magazine:

“That’s confidential and kind of magic. They came to me. And I am setting him free.”

I’m just curious, since they were stolen in the first place shouldn’t she have to turn them over now that she has announced she has them??

Anyways, Courtney Love has denied reports that German artist Natascha Stellmach has ashes of her late husband and is now insisting the ashes were never stolen in the first place. Her representative Alan Nierob retracted her previous comments, saying Cobain’s remains “were never taken” and the story of the burglary had been “erroneously reported”.

Oh the drama!

Mexico's gruesome drug war and its hundreds of executions a year are the inspiration for an art exhibit of red-splattered blankets meant to represent shrouds used by hitmen to dispose of their victims.

Rosa Maria Robles has laid tattered blankets, some of them with bits of plastic tape stuck to them, on floors in a museum in Sinaloa, a rural northern state that has long been a hotbed of drug smuggling and gangland murder.

Organized criminals in Mexico often cover the corpses of their victims, hands taped together and shot in the head, with a blanket before dumping them on quiet roads or abandoning them in the trunk of a car.

Robles exhibit, called the "Red Carpet" and open since May, had included blankets from actual crimes, complete with real blood, museum curator Rosa Maria Hass told Reuters.

"We decided to hand them over to the attorney general's office for investigation," Hass said, adding the artist has refused to say where she got them.

Evening news programs in Mexico regularly show images of forensic investigators photographing bodies draped in bloodied covers and the verb "to blanket" has taken on new meaning.

Another part of Robles' exhibition draws attention to beheadings, increasingly used by drug gangs to terrorize rival groups and even the army.

The government has sent the army to hotspots across Mexico to dismantle smuggling cartels battling for lucrative territory along the U.S. border, but there are few signs of improvement.

An artist offered guests meatballs cooked in his own body fat when he hosted a dinner party recently.

Marco Evaristti shocked his friends when he explained that he had used fat extracted from a recent liposuction procedure to cook their meal.

An art teacher who moonlighted as a 'butt-printing artist' has been fired from his school.

Stephen Murmer had initially been suspended from work after a YouTube video of him appearing – in disguise – on a TV show, demonstrating how he used his buttocks for painting, was circulated amongst pupils at the school.

I projected photographs of mutilated and dead Iraqis on American houses, supermarkets, churches, and parking lots. I was thinking of this new generation of kids who will be traumatized for life by growing up during wartime. It was a desperate gesture: my personal protest for the lack of interest for the non-american victims.