{"id":14873,"date":"2012-11-20T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=14873"},"modified":"2012-11-20T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:34:06","slug":"also-livin-large-in-the-bubble-koons-warhol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/11\/20\/also-livin-large-in-the-bubble-koons-warhol\/","title":{"rendered":"~also livin’ large in the bubble: KOONS & WARHOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

though outsize $$$ numbers for ‘art’ are mindboggling all around, it’s NOT quite a celebration of art, per se. <\/p>\n

more like . . . a banking option with benefits !!
\nyou get to diverse your holdings and park your (immense) $$$ in a hard copy hi-end item, that hopefully . . . you fall in love with as well. <\/p>\n

and trust me they got it all locked up, among the players . . . very little if ANY, of the action trickles down to the street level art world and\/or market. <\/p>\n

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\nANDY WARHOL\/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK, via CHRISTIE’S IMAGES – c\/o NEW YORK TIMES<\/a><\/p>\n

“ANDY WARHOL’S 1962 silk-screen work, ‘Statue of Liberty’ sold for $39 million, or $43.7 million with fees (USD). Much was made of the fact that its red and green colors create a 3-D effect.” – NEW YORK TIMES
\n3-D !! (duh.)
\nbut damn that Andy Warhol, ALWAYS ahead of the pack, or what !! if it isn’t neon pink camo – it’s 3-D !! <\/p>\n

the action took place at CHRISTIE’S NYC, Wed Nov 14, 2012.<\/p>\n

“Making much of the fact that it is silk-screened in red over green ink on a white background in a way that creates the illusion of a 3-D image, Christie’s tucked cardboard pairs of 3-D glasses into every catalog.” (!!). <\/p>\n

read more: RECORD-BREAKING PRICES at CHRISTIE’S – NEW YORK TIMES\/NOV 15, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nJEFF KOONS – STAINLESS STEEL ‘TULIPS. PHOTO: CHRISTIE’S – c\/o NEW YORK TIMES<\/a><\/p>\n

JEFF KOONS (B. 1955) ‘Tulips’, high chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating
\n80 x 180 x 205 in. Executed in 1995-2004.<\/p>\n

at the same auction, ‘Tulips’ . . . “a monumental Jeff Koons sculpture of stainless-steel flowers with transparent color coating, from 1995-2004, also brought a record auction price for that artist, selling to a telephone bidder for $33.6 million, well above its $22 million high estimate.”<\/p>\n

see: RECORD-BREAKING PRICES at CHRISTIE’S<\/a> (above link) as well, <\/p>\n

and . . . <\/p>\n

check out: INVESTOR’S FLY TO CONTEMPORARY ART – NEW YORK TIMES\/NOV 16, 2012 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

though outsize $$$ numbers for ‘art’ are mindboggling all around, it’s NOT quite a celebration of art, per se. more like . . . a banking option with benefits !! you get to diverse your holdings and park your (immense) $$$ in a hard copy hi-end item, that hopefully . . . you fall in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14873"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14897,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions\/14897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}