A group of pieces went on sale yesterday at Christie’s, setting new world auction records for a number of artists.
This work is simply titled “Him,” care to guess how much it fetched last night?
They expected to get around $12 million – an anonymous buyer bought it for $17.2 million.
Other items sold in the “Bound to Fail” auction Here
(I particularly like the stick of butter by Robert Gober that sold for $2,285,000.)
Ya gotta be fuckin kiddin …
izlamo delenda est …
It’s all part of the plan – you commie bastards!
Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Just skip down to #22
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962461/posts
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
and so on
I remember hearing my pastor speak on this in the 60s. I thought, oh, that can’t ever happen in America. Pray for the USA. God hears.
OLIVIER MOSSET (B. 1944)
$137,000
It’s a fucking circle. Nothing but a circle (black) on white canvas. WTF. $137,000 for a circle? it’s not even 3-D. It’s gay and probably fake.
I would bet money the anonymous buyer of the Hilter HIM is a rich Arab.
Paul McCarthy sold an item titled Tripod for 2,045,000.00. It’s total crap. If it’s the real P.M. – he should be ashamed of himself for calling it art.
None of these items took actual talent. See Zonga’s post for how this has come to be.
It has the slight odor of one of those book deals a politician gets that is only a front for giving her more money than the contribution laws allow. No one actually buys it for what it is – it’s just a wealthy donor passing money along under a thin guise.
Or – it could be that extreme wealth causes insanity. A lot of evidence supporting that.
Either way, I am SO in the wrong biz.
Mortgages – If that’s the case it’ll be re-named to Squealing Hitler in no time!
Speaking kneeling men in uniforms, the whole Maytag thing is getting creepy…
http://www.google.com/search?q=maytag+men+kneeling&sourceid=silk&ie=UTF-8#q=maytag+men+kneeling+in+commercial&imgrc=hvlkodTBYZJWCM%3A
Now they are kneeling for dad in the latest commercial. Never ever will You see two kneeling Maytag gals. I seem to recall that “Maytag” had a certain meaning back it the day of Grand Master Flash.
Cut it out, Maytag.
I was an art major before dropping out of college twenty-five years ago, and I still don’t understand this type of nonsense. But I love Mozart and don’t understand rap music’s appeal either, soooo…