A visitor to an art show in Miami has learned an important lesson about Jeff Koons' famous balloon-dog pieces: They're not real balloons. In fact, they're made of glass and thus fragile. As the Miami Herald reports, a woman tapped on a shiny blue dog atop a pedestal at Art Wynwood, causing it to fall to the ground and shatter—a $42,000 accident. “Before I knew it, they were picking up the Jeff Koons pieces in a dustpan with a broom,” says Stephen Gamson, who witnessed the incident and spoke to the New York Times. Gamson's guess is that the woman tapped on the piece to see if it was actually a balloon.
Luckily for the unidentified woman, insurance will cover the cost of the mishap.
"Art"
ReplyDeleteDoggie style art. is something to get behind.
Deleteidiot. probably the same person who has to see if the paint is wet
ReplyDeleteAll she had to do was NOT do something.
DeleteDo NOT touch shit that don't belong to you.
Used to be taught to all kids by about age 5.
What would she do if a stranger touched her bare eyeball?
She'd scream like a girlbaby.
The woman is not out of the woods. Insurance companies can sue her to recover it loss. $42,000 might not be worth the effort, but setting an example might.
ReplyDeleteIf accident, like tripped, I see insurance. Since she personally misbehaved, I hope they sue the panties off her
DeleteIf I can do it, it's not art. -Red Green.
ReplyDeleteFTW
DeleteA new low has been reached; art imitating art.
ReplyDeleteIf sued for the breakage, I'd say that was my performance art. In fact, I added great value to the Koon sculpture. Them with the broom and dust pan were not part of my art.
Then they could say the broom and dust pan were important aspects of our art. Besides, how can you not appreciate the allegory? The sweeping, it makes you think.
And so it goes.
42K? nope, not interested.
ReplyDeleteA delicate glass sculpture left out in the open for people to reach out and touch? Welcome to our new exhibit, we decided to name it 'Calling All Imbeciles'.
ReplyDeleteIt's entrapment I tell ya!
DeleteI knocked a cup off a Julian Schnabel myself.
ReplyDelete42K for that? 16" x 19"? YGTBSM! What crap. And fuck Gropey Joe Biden!
ReplyDeleteArt? The art "industry" has become a parody of itself.
ReplyDeleteI’ve seen plenty of Koons’ “art”. That woman should be dispatched to do likewise to all of it.
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