But is it art?

Ok, it's an interesting "hotel room" but it's kind of creepy just sitting there on display in a museum.  As long as the exhibit is in town, people can stay overnight for 1,000 Euros ($1400) and they have the run of the museum the whole time.  I'd still feel strange as part of a museum display though.  I could see an entire hotel with rooms like these, maybe elevated on cylinders you go into at the bottom, an elevator takes you up about 100' to the room which is this, only under a clear dome.  The rotating disks the bed and tables are on would be cool in a setup like that.  Here, all you're going to see when the thing rotates is the other side of the room.  Imagine, high up in the air, at night in a raging thunderstorm... then at daylight, you look out at the ocean on one side, a jungle below, and mountains on the other side.  I should open a hotel like that.  I wonder if I could get a $10 million bank loan?  Anyway, read about this "art" by Carsten Holler here... Rotating Hotel Room

And on a sadder side of the news, this is from a few days ago.  The female version of "dead man walking".  Marisol Valles Garcia has taken over the job of police chief in a town in Mexico that's right in the middle of rival drug gangs.  She's only 20 and not even finished earning her degree in criminology.  I can't figure out why she's doing this, these drug gangs think nothing of taking out the police as well as their rivals.  They generally dismember bodies and leave the pieces piled up or scattered about.  Sometimes it's just the head delivered in a box.  The gangs have assault weapons, and the police force (of about a dozen illiterate men) has mostly shotguns, and a few pistols.  Her plan is to recruit more women to fill in the depleted force, and then go door to door educating people about the drug gangs and their effect on the community, as if it weren't already obvious.  Although I'm not part of any dead pools regarding this girl, I'm sure there are plenty.  I read about her first on the 20th.  I was predicting that she won't make it a month.