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Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Post by anaxag0ras »

legohead wrote: post #14

Odd, the article so confidently says it's an accident over and over, but other reports [1] [2] say she touched it on purpose. Is the owner of the gallery district manager here simply lying for insurance purposes? [1] https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/oops-woman-accidentally-br... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/arts/jeff-koons-sculpture...

> broke a $42,000 porcelain sculpture by artist Jeff Koons Thursday.

> Herald that Gamson offered to buy the balloon dog’s remains for $15 million on the spot.

Wait, so the broken sculpture is now worth more than before? How does this even make sense.

Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Post by graderjs »

GavinMcG wrote: post #8
graderjs wrote: post #5

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It's not absurd, or sexist. It's just a fact. If you pretend that you can't make any generalizations or statements because of one's gender...or you even pretend that's negative. Then you're the one being sexist. It's just crazy this kind of over protected speech. You're totally reading the wrong thing into it. Haven't you ever observed this?

Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Post by number6 »

anaxag0ras wrote: post #21
legohead wrote: post #14

Odd, the article so confidently says it's an accident over and over, but other reports [1] [2] say she touched it on purpose. Is the owner of the gallery district manager here simply lying for insurance purposes? [1] https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/oops-woman-accidentally-br... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/arts/jeff-koons-sculpture...

> broke a $42,000 porcelain sculpture by artist Jeff Koons Thursday. > Herald that Gamson offered to buy the balloon dog’s remains for $15 million on the spot. Wait, so the broken sculpture is now worth more than before? How does this even make sense.

Money laundering

Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Post by ec2y »

retSava wrote: post #10
joe_the_user wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The bad thing is whoever kicked the podium must feel terrible. Why did they put no effort into protecting this piece? Perhaps because they could easily make another one if it came to it. I mean, it's just a ceramic duplicate of an ordinary balloon dog, of which a million or so are made at children's birthday parties. Note, Koons himself produces work at scale in what he calls a factory and which is ... a factory.

A total of 799 editions of the sculpture were made. Ie not a total loss for humanity.

That’s .004%* of an increase in value for the rest of them.

*Completely made up number as I’m not an art valuer, but the point stands.

Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Post by culturestate »

a_bonobo wrote: post #18

I'm actually surprised at the value of this piece seeing that it's fairly famous. Just $42,000, is that a typo?!

> Just $42,000, is that a typo?!

Nope. He's made a bunch of different balloon animals, and this particular dog was an edition of a few hundred. You can buy one on Artsy right now if you've got some spare cash lying around: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jeff-koons-balloon-dog-blue-po...

Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Post by swatcoder »

anaxag0ras wrote: post #21
legohead wrote: post #14

Odd, the article so confidently says it's an accident over and over, but other reports [1] [2] say she touched it on purpose. Is the owner of the gallery district manager here simply lying for insurance purposes? [1] https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/oops-woman-accidentally-br... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/arts/jeff-koons-sculpture...

> broke a $42,000 porcelain sculpture by artist Jeff Koons Thursday. > Herald that Gamson offered to buy the balloon dog’s remains for $15 million on the spot. Wait, so the broken sculpture is now worth more than before? How does this even make sense.

It just went from a one nonspecific sculpture in a run of 799, to an absolutely unique item from that set with a specific historical lineage. The other 798 are no different than each other, but this is the only one among them that had this happen to it. So now it's priced more like his other singular works.

Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Post by Dalewyn »

anaxag0ras wrote: post #21
legohead wrote: post #14

Odd, the article so confidently says it's an accident over and over, but other reports [1] [2] say she touched it on purpose. Is the owner of the gallery district manager here simply lying for insurance purposes? [1] https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/oops-woman-accidentally-br... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/arts/jeff-koons-sculpture...

> broke a $42,000 porcelain sculpture by artist Jeff Koons Thursday. > Herald that Gamson offered to buy the balloon dog’s remains for $15 million on the spot. Wait, so the broken sculpture is now worth more than before? How does this even make sense.

Depending on who you ask, those broken fragments are a one-of-a-kind.

Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture

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Post by Gibbon1 »

Dalewyn wrote: post #29
anaxag0ras wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> broke a $42,000 porcelain sculpture by artist Jeff Koons Thursday. > Herald that Gamson offered to buy the balloon dog’s remains for $15 million on the spot. Wait, so the broken sculpture is now worth more than before? How does this even make sense.

Depending on who you ask, those broken fragments are a one-of-a-kind.

Five quatloos for the tail.
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