A stainless steel rabbit sculpture by Jeff Koons has sold for more than $91 million, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist ever to sell at auction https://t.co/aWdz1wuDOA pic.twitter.com/9rbhyI35FG
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I am not a Democrat so incapable and neither intelligent enough nor well enough educated to appreciate great art. Obviously incapable of making a judgement call.
Suckers!*
*Proving, once again, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that many members of our civilization have more money, much more money, than brains.
There’s no arguing with that.
I’ll bet that when the buyer donates it to a ‘qualified institution’ at some point in the future, it will be “worth” some large multiple of what was paid for it according to the (((art experts))).
Will be a hot item in the grand kids’ garage sale someday.
No, no – it’s a tax dodge. When you donate art to a “qualified institution,” it’s a usable as a tax deduction – at the future appraised value.
So there is a whole industry of tax fraud masquerading as the art industry.
When you are the ((Elite)) and stealing 100s of billions of dollars a year, 91 million is pocket change.
End the Fed!
End the FED…!
Yea …. there’s got to be a con/swindle here that us proles are not knowledgeable about.
money laundering….the sculpture is shite
Mygirl,
Bingo bango.
This is the best kept secret in the U.S. and the best speculation for which con/swindle is creating artificial prices (I mean besides the “Big Ponzi” – debauched paper currency) – and not just in art.
2 Trillion annually is taken in via the drug trade. Two Trillion – Every. Single. Year.
That racketeering, combined with monetary debauchery, is at the center of all major crime and the majority of most social ills.
Two Trillion is almost incomprehensible and means that some/several criminal organizations have more currency that needs laundering than the majority of countries have in their annual budgets.
Now add in the pedos, hookers, gun-running, etc.. Throw in the vying state-level factions (some of which certainly have duel-roles: both criminal and state and state and criminal) and voila! Welcome to Insanity-Land.
Damn it – it’s DUAL not DUEL!
This shit is laughable,and of course the picture is from CNN. P.T. Barnum gets credit for the quote”There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute” Somehow though I can envision W.C. Fields looking at that and saying it. Man are things upside down or what….
A better question is : Where do the batteries go?
To be fair his stainless steel bunny rabbits are among the best ones currently available for people in the market for one. Admittedly that’s a steep price tag, but the heart wants what the heart wants.
Dude…
Hey, preacher man… after the little coonskin gets to the Alamo and the “real” ride starts, I will coordinate with you to see if the little guy can stop by and see you “sometime” on the way to D.C. Whereabouts are you on the way between the Alamo and Savannah, Georgia?
Remember the Alamo…
My email is on my church website M G.
Word.
Especially when the sight of big bunnies makes your heart lepus.
And, if you watch that one, think about letting it play through How Bad IS the Night of the Lepus?
Here’s the German version of the poster.
Another case of a person having more dollars than sense! If I had seen that thing on the side of the road, I would have picked it up and made a coin bank out of it…
Alright, here’s a true story. Was involved with a woman who was an artist when I was much younger. We’d get into big arguments about what was an wasn’t art (guys like Chris Burden who jacked off under a stage in a gallery, for example? Not art) and at one point she tried to talk me into buying a piece for I believe 3 grand (this was 1985 money) by a guy named Ad Reinhardt. I hated his stuff, all black canvases for example and this piece was a print of a copy of an all black canvas, I suppose. There was a big argument over it and I put my foot down and used the money for something else, like food and clothing, dumb stuff.
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/-1-c-65B4B50919
His stuff is still selling for the same price. It’s gotten uglier with time. I win.
And you’re not with that woman. Another win.
I think she dumped DDung recently.
The whole art “market” is extremely bizarre. A nearby nursing home’s parking lot and dumpsters were right alongside our offices in a re-purposed railroad shed of a building. One day, I see a couple of big canvases in the dumpster. We’re talking 6’x6′.. 6’x8′ or thereabouts. I rescue them. They’re basically along “Ad Reinhart” lines. I figure these are worth something to someone, so I call a downtown art dealer. As a plan B, I know the canvas and stretchers are worth money.
Another dealer who represents artist so&so (woman who is still alive) calls me back, outraged! OF COURSE, I have to turn these “works” over to the rightful artist/”owner”, who had “donated” them to the nursing home thirty years earlier. The “artist” storms over to our studios and re-appropriates the canvases (I wasn’t about to get into a physical altercation over it). But no word of thanks for rescuing them from the dumpster, no tip or “reward”.. just abuse! Good Lord!
With a lot of this “art”, it’s sold with strings attached, and the artists think they can retain control over the pieces even after death. Look into the “Tilted Arc” fiasco for an idea of the “fuck you, pay me” mentality they have!
Now, most artists do not get to set these terms. Over at Anonymous Conservative, he gets into “Cabal” and how funds might get steered to various miscreants via book deals and such. That’s the only thing I can figure really runs the “art market” at this point, because nothing else makes sense.
The first person to paint a white canvas or install a urinal-as-art may have been making a challenging statement. Everyone thereafter? Why? Please stop.
It’s all Deep State stuff to make people think their ideas are nuts. Don’t like the new art, something is wrong with your thinking.
Hardscrabble, I’m sure you are an OK guy but I think she meant she was a big fan of Art not art. You dodged that bullet tho.
The guys in the MilesMathisCollective say that really high prices for fake art is just a way of hiding payoffs or money transfers for some service of some other thing of great value. Dunno.
22?
my stainless steel rabbit accessories are extremely affordable: copper carrots are $3 million (qty 1 bunch), lead lettuce (1 head/iceberg) $1.75 million, etc.
see me for details
“Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
That was a really, really good video. Thank you so very much for posting that. If you have more like that one, I want to see them.
Told ya.
Good one. I like that one reads the message. I spent almost all day at the library yesterday and was overwhelmed by the wondrous SILENCE while I absorbed information and made notes.
Life without cacophony is wonderful. Silence really is GOLDEN sometimes.
The second video, “The New Tolerance NWO,” is quite simply profound. Just outstanding!
Everyone should watch it. I had to stop each vignette and think about the statement being made.
Thank you for posting it.
Here here. Please hear!
My artistic aunt made those little froggies sitting on old Henry’s tome here. See No Evil and Say No Evil are taking a break.
She taught art at the Kentucky Children’s Home for years and the “disturbed” children (probably autistic) made hundreds of these little froggies to sell at crafts fairs to raise money for more art projects.
Now, that’s art!
My kids are painting rocks. I ain’t calling it art. I’m calling them Patriot Rocks. For now… I have my PR team working on a better slogan.
Because, I read someplace that EVEN THE ROCKS CRY OUT.
taught me children to read using McGuffey Readers. Oldest son took off like a shot after a couple of days, one of the easiest things I think I ever did. He took right to it and was reading books on his own within weeks. Why they don’t use them anymore is anyone’s guess, but I think I have an idea.
I learned to read from “The Dick and Jane Reader”. Got the general idea of sentence structure and how to puzzle out the meaning of words from the context where the word was used. ” See Spot run! Run, Spot, run!”
I used the Readers with my 2 sons in the late 1970’s. As you know, there are many examples , concepts, and moral teaching directly from the Hated Christian Book. Bingo.
Take a close up look at that rabbit. I think it’s a ballon.
Before the rabbit sculpture, the record was held by Mr. Koons balloon dogs. Look them up, they are very impressive. There are five of them, and they are nuts. You can’t control the price, but they are very impressive sculptures.
Star,
I don’t get it. Impressive?
I agree with Star – those sculptures of blow up animals are pretty cool. The price is a different story. But they are extremely cool. I would like one – at say 1/10,000 of the price they are going for.
I cannot remember what the shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirstwent for, or the cabinet full of pills.
Looked it up – shark went for almost $10 million pounds. The pill cabinet about the same. I prefer the dog balloon.
At least the stainless-steel rabbit is low-maintenance. The shark piece requires expensive maintenance including, I believe, replacement of the shark!
Beauty matters
https://youtu.be/bHw4MMEnmpc
Absolutely nothing is wrong with this story. If someone is willing pay the price to buy this garbage, so be it. That’s the free market.
Indeed! It really IS in the eye of the beholder. If you “be holding” 91 million bucks to spend on a stainless steel bunny, you be rightful in buying it.
Apparently the new owner is Mnuchin’s Dad!
Somewhere there are a lot of white folks who enjoyed a white graduation ceremony less the antics displayed at graduations by blacks. They tend to go full chimp at that type of affair.
Is this a bad thing for blacks to segregate themselves…..nope. Voluntary segregation, whodda thunk it would happen?
NOT sure how my comment ended up in this thread??? Oh well…….
Art for the sake of art is a waste. Art is not a sacrament. At its basest (i.e. the stainless steel rabbit), it is nothing more than people wiling away the hours for the amusement of themselves and others. Its value in use is almost nil. A good claw hammer is worth far more to man’s endeavors than some such embodiment of self expression. An effective roto tiller that starts easily? Worth a museum in my book. Is art a waste? Not sure I’m willing to go that far. Is its value and purpose vastly over-rated? That is quite true in my mind.
And now we begin the slide into recession/depression. In my short time on earth I have noticed that stories like this usually precede the market and economy falling. Besides profligate spending and conspicuous consumption, companies are now coming public that don’t make a profit and freely admit they will never make a profit.
The biggest problem with central banking to the average person, imho, is the quantities of money wasted in malinvestment. With the cost of money artificially repressed the consequence of stupidity also is artificially low.
Reminds me of an art show- with all the liberals walking around praising the graffiti “artist’s work.”
I have done work for wealthy people and they lacked common sense. One doctor showed me his dining table they paid forty grand for. It was nice but not worth that much. Same with people buying German cars. Status symbols that are in the shop a lot.
WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD?
Unlimited emission of worthless paper currency backed by nothing more than the cheap ink its printed with, that’s what. Next question?