Spooky Spacey Art Installation to Open in London

Victorian former train tunnels below London are the setting for a new performance art exhibition, produced by Old Vic Theatre artistic director Kevin Spacey:

"In association with experimental theatre company Punchdrunk, he has assembled a crew of performers and big-name urban artists from Antony Micallef to Slinkachu, to create a creepy underground world in the vein of 1920s sci-fi movie Metropolis...Street artist Slinkachu has created his tiny models of people in hidden nooks, while Micallef has created a gilded statue of two fighting angels. Elsewhere there is a paper forest, crawling with paper moths, spooky dummies of masked workers by artist Mark Jenkins, and bizarre still scenes, including a woman slumped over a melting table, by Polly Morgan."

The installation is scheduled to open Friday night.

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Kevin Spacey Suffering from a Bad Hangover

This was not shot from the bushes by a paparazzo. It's a still from his forthcoming film Shrink in which he plays a psychiatrist "whose boutique L.A. office, A-list clientele and best-selling pop psychology books form a thin layer of respectability over his ruined personal life, insurmountable grief, serious pot problem and a host of other crises" according to Cinematical.

Two more shots AFTER THE JUMP...

Kevin Spacey Speaks Out in Favor of Gay Rights, Marriage Equality

DoSomething.org's blog Celebs Gone Good interviewed Kevin Spacey at Petra Nemcova’s 2008 Happy Hearts Gala and asked him how he felt about Californians passing Proposition 8:

"Well there’s no doubt that election night was a bittersweet night. But in some ways, these kinds of setbacks allow for a bigger fight, more challenges, and eventually we’re going to get it right. Eventually the American public will figure out that it really isn’t right to deny citizens basic civil human rights. And we can no longer allow that to happen. So the fact that these things were voted in, to me, it’s just an example of the fact that they had more money. How much money did the Mormon church put in? So I hope, like Arnold Schwarzenegger said, 'Don’t give up. Keep protesting.'"

They also asked him about Elton John's statement that gays should forget about fighting for marriage and settle for civil partnerships:

"I haven’t heard what Elton has said about it, and I don’t really know the particular laws in London with respect to whether they just have civil unions or...Look, I think at the end of the day, if people are given rights, and the same basic rights that any individual is given, then we are in fact honoring the Constitution of the United States. Anything less than that is unfair."

The blog, however, neglected to ask Spacey about the wild night he had in September inspecting male curves in Croatia.

Kevin Spacey Inspects Male Curves at 'Wild Party' in Croatia

Actor Kevin Spacey was photographed over the weekend at what Brit tabloid The Sun called a "wild party" in Croatia. Either that, or a Weight Watchers meeting...Spacey may have just been checking whether he could pinch more than an inch. Photos AFTER THE JUMP...