Well, they're exceeding *my* expectations. The Czech government just commissioned and exhibited an artwork in the European Council buildings in Brussels. It's called "Entropa." It has little vignettes of all of the EU countries.
Bulgaria is a toilet.
Germany is a set of motorways looking a bit like a swastika.
France is "on strike."
The Netherlands is a bunch of drowning minarets.
Poland has a bunch of monks in a potato field raising the gay pride flag.
Romania is a Dracula theme park.
Luxemburg is "for sale."
Britain is absent.
Sweden is neatly packaged in a compact, flat cardboard box.
And so on.
I find it utterly hilarious -- and even funnier the screams of outrage coming from all over Brussels. Go Czech!
Also, the description and explanation on the official pages is complete BS, which makes it even better.
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http://www.eu2009.cz/en/news-and-do...ereotypes-are-barriers-to-be-demolished-5634/ ]
Edit: Please, please "czech" out the PDF linked from the page above -- it's a magnificent, glorious stream of utterly bald-faced bullshitting -- what the artist did to get this masterpiece sailing right through the bureaucracy and into the European Council offices. (Specifically, it's a collection of texts from the entirely fictional artists who supposedly contributed to the work, explaining each of them in turn.)