New York Post Online Edition - 'LINK STINK' ART

Artist Mike Bouchet's odorific 'Celebrity Hot Tub for Kofi Annan' sculpture — which features a rotting sausage stewing in a tub of noxious water — produces an overwhelming stench that is sickening visitors to the MoMA-affiliated museum.

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Reached for comment in Switzerland, Bouchet, 34, compared himself to the Old Masters. "As much as Velazquez painted portraits of his royal patrons, I am making works for contemporary celebrities," he wrote in an e-mail.

When pressed, he admitted, "I assumed that the salami would probably emit odor.