from the fringes of the underground \/ Jonny Campolo’s exhibit in a hardcore indie Gazebo in artist Jonathan Hartshorn’s New Mexico backyard, amongst the random roaming chicken . . .<\/p>\n
to the increasingly bitter warring . . of gazillionaire \/ billionaire Laguna Beach, ocean-front owning California neighbors: Pimco co-founder BILL GROSS vs tech titan MARK TOWFIQ !!
\n& each worth according to Forbes, over $1.5 billion.
\nat the heart of their dispute ?
\na 20 ft. long \/ 10 ft. high cobalt blue \/ aggregate glass outdoor sculpture by Mr. Chihuly, installed by Mr. Gross, on his side of the adjacent property line.<\/p>\n
note: the fact that it can be ‘illuminated’ at night . . probably adds to the controversy. note: in fact, ‘light’ illumination \/ goes quite nicely with transparent, or even opaque . . glass works \/ the view-obscuring netting \/ also has something to do with the bad tempers !! JONNY . . was happy to attach his much smaller scaled glass pieces to (paper !!) cardboard & let the elements work . . their magic. then again, Jonny’s pieces go for about a grand, maybe a grand and a half, max \/ there you have it \/ glass, glass, everywhere. Cinderella’s proverbial glass slipper returns to haunt a covid-fearing nation . . in need of a fairy tale \/ or at the very least . . . something, very very pretty !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YIKES !! SPIKES !! MELTED FUSION & COLORED LIGHTS !! this is how ‘hot’ glass art work is right now . . . from the fringes of the underground \/ Jonny Campolo’s exhibit in a hardcore indie Gazebo in artist Jonathan Hartshorn’s New Mexico backyard, amongst the random roaming chicken . . . to the […]<\/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\/42504"}],"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=42504"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42512,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions\/42512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Dale-Chihuly-dispute-LA-Times.jpg\")
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\nDALE CHIHULY sculpture . . on Mr. Gross’ property \/ at center of the dispute.
\nPhoto: Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhey, Jonny’s Calendar Gazebo, fused glass exhibit – could be lit, too.<\/p>\n
\napart from the intrinsic, wonderous surface of glass, of any kind,
\ncould it also be: because it’s born from fire \/ and fire = light ?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fca-times.brightspotcdn.com%2Fdims4%2Fdefault%2F7d63027%2F2147483647%2Fstrip%2Ftrue%2Fcrop%2F1320x847%2B0%2B0%2Fresize%2F1320x847!%2Fquality%2F90%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%252F31%252Fea%252Fcb69ac6b4d8684e286ee79f5d75d%252Fla-fi-bill-gross-neighbor-07.JPG&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2020-10-26%2Fbill-gross-laguna-beach-chihuly-scultpure&tbnid=ZTL-40lF1uoFfM&vet=12ahUKEwjD2cDYzPDsAhVZcjABHVxxCTEQMygBegQIARAr..i&docid=m42lecCsFdLqiM&w=1320&h=847&q=pimco%20co-founder%20dispute%20with%20neighbor&client=firefox-b-1-d&ved=2ahUKEwjD2cDYzPDsAhVZcjABHVxxCTEQMygBegQIARAr\")
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\nthe sculpture as seen from the neighbors’ side \/ the Towfiq family
\nPhoto: Yahoo!finance<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMr. Gross insists he needs the netting to protect the glass works from the elements, duh.
\nbut, he also seems to be alleging ‘damage’ from a thrown ‘rock’ \/ in some reports.<\/p>\n
\nemphasizing the expected entropy . . with glued-on strips of masking tape !!<\/p>\n
\nwhile, Finance.yahoo suggests the Chihuly sculpture array . . tops out at over or about $1 million.<\/p>\n
\nfrom desert to ocean \/ rural backyard to cliff-hugging mansion.
\nand at every . . price point !!
\nfrom doughnuts to caviar \/ glass is not just classy \/ it’s breaking glass ceilings \/ esp as hot collectibles \/ and, even for outdoor sculptures per se, which are usually of steel, wrought iron, if not resin, plaster, or wood.
\nbreaking art collecting no-nos \/ as well as money-class divides . . anybody with a little art smarts – can easily hop onto glass collecting . . band-wagon.<\/p>\n