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Jump to full article: New York Post, 2004-12-29
Intro: PETER Tunney, the art world oddball who famously lived inside a VIP room at Crobar nightclub for 300 days, is headed to the South Pole. Tunney tells us he's rented a 500-foot Russian fishing trawler to cut through the icy waters surrounding Elephant Island in Antarctica, where he plans to spend two weeks painting and taking photographs. The fast-talking financial whiz-turned-pop artist wants to retrace the steps of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explorer who led his party to safety on Elephant Island after his ship was crushed at sea. "I'm going to put up signs that say, 'Keep off the Grass' and 'No Smoking,' like, all the stupid rules we have to follow here, on this giant glacier,"
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