Art Of The Leap

A performance artist wearing a business suit and safety harnesses jumped repeatedly from a Chicago museum roof to create photographs that recall scenes from the World Trade Center attack, but his spectacle was scorned by some onlookers and victims' relatives. Collaborating photographers snapped away as Kerry Skarbakka fell more than 30 times from the five-story Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday. The photographs will be retouched to erase the pulleys and wires that kept Skarbakka from hitting the pavement. New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it "nauseatingly offensive," A woman whose son died in the terrorist attack, told the (New York) Daily News. "He's an artist? Go paint a bowl of fruit or something." For the full story - click the title Irish Art