OVERVIEW: Art in Embassies Program Gave Podestas, Jeff Koons, Rockefellers, Clintons, Marina Abramovic, Rothschilds even Alefantis access to a private shipping channel that could bypass airport security credit: @Swordfish69
Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ Sets Auction Record for Most Expensive Work by Living Artist
Robert E. Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made the winning bid for Mr. Koons’s 1986 “Rabbit” from an aisle seat near the front of the salesroom. He was seated near Peter Brant, the collector and private museum-owner, and Jeffrey Deitch, the dealer.
It was the ultimate prize among six works offered at Christie’s from the collection of the magazine publisher S.I. Newhouse Jr., who died in 2017. Estimated to raise at least $50 million, this sculpture, made in an edition of three and one artist’s proof, was the last example left in private hands, according to Christie’s.
The price, surpassing the $90.2 million with fees achieved, again at Christie’s, for Mr. Hockney’s 1972 painting, “Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures),” confirmed how Mr. Koons’s metal sculptures have become the ultimate billionaire trophies produced during the contemporary art boom of the 1980s and ’90s. The Hockney milestone came at the expense of Mr. Koons, the previous record-holder, whose “Balloon Dog (Orange)” sold at auction for $58.4 million in November 2013.
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pittsburghisapedoden ago
And today May 18 is International Museum Day. There was huge scandal years ago with museum exhibits supposedly using the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners to display different systems of the human body. http://archive.ph/9xo5E Many museums all over the world participated in this disgusting exhibit. It still is active. The Connecticut Science Center is currently hosting it. https://ctsciencecenter.org/real-bodies/ http://archive.ph/GUzrQ Do children really need to see this? I understand how learning basic anatomy is important, but with actual human corpses. Why not animals?
pittsburghisapedoden ago
The organizations sponsoring the exhibit are the Connecticut Tourism Board, United Technologies, Travelers Insurance, Andrew J. & Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation, Roger and Sondra Beit & Mark and Luanne Paley, Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation, the Hartford Foundation, Pitney Bowes, and Stanley Black & Decker.
pittsburghisapedoden ago
United Technologies is an aircraft company. Trafficking?
pittsburghisapedoden ago
Pitney Bowes is a logistics company which is a major red flag.