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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
#32Earlier 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.
Money laundering
If they offered the same or double the price I would be still raising my eyebrows a bit but 15M lmao, how blatant is that.
Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture
#33> a visitor accidentally kicked its podium In the opening crowded social event how can the sculpture be placed unsecured on a glass table - also, the sculpture had rounded smooth glossy point of contact (dog's legs). The podium: https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_auto,w_727,c_fit/http%3A...
Also, assuming it is LA, what about earthquakes? Several other sculptures on podiums there...
Think the exhibit was in Miami.
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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.
Clearly the route to infinite value is destroying all of them
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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?
Nope. Couldn't find anything via Google, either. I thought you were making a Seinfeld joke, at first ("The Little Kicks"), but apparently not.
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#38> a visitor accidentally kicked its podium In the opening crowded social event how can the sculpture be placed unsecured on a glass table - also, the sculpture had rounded smooth glossy point of contact (dog's legs). The podium: https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_auto,w_727,c_fit/http%3A...
Full-sized image: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/230219130836-01-jeff-...
Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture
#39Fix it with Kintsugi [0] and sell it as a 1 of 1 for a higher price. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
In the article, someone wanted to buy the pieces as-is for $15M..
Why waste time and gold?
Re: Visitor accidentally shatters Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture
#40Odd, 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.
Wow, the art world has literally become a Donald Duck cartoon!
I remember when I was a kid one of my favourite Donald Duck installations was one where Donald accidentally breaks an antique and invaluable vase, and some art people goes crazy for the shards, and so Donald launches a new career as an artist where people bring their Ming dynasty vases to him, and he goes to town on them with power tools.
I don't recall quite how it ends, but I think the trend passes and he's left with a bunch of worthless shards. I think Scrooge was angry for some reason as well...
I liked it at the time because it was such an absurd concept. Guess it wasn't nearly as absurd as I thought!