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Motoko Kusanagi
10/09/09

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New-looking, useless thing in an old-looking useful building!

When will this daring art scene cease to shock and amaze?!
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pony_express
10/09/09

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I love the Tate (though it confuses me how to get to the different floors- and I am not being dense, they make it confusing) but man, I really hate Jeff Koons. For some reason he just riles my ire. I think it goes back to the time I was in fifth grade and we went to the MOMA in SF, the basketballs in the aquarium offended my sensibilities even back then.
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Trai_Dep
10/09/09

@pony_express: I was typing, "I like the Tate; I HATE Koons" when I saw you beat me to it.
Warhol did it first, and at least he had some involvement with The Velvet Underground. I think Koons should aspire to Andy's legacy by arranging to get himself shot.
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pony_express
10/09/09

@Trai_Dep: Go to the (relatively new) Broad at the LACMA, it's like an homage to bad 80's and 90s modern art with an entire floor for Koons, including that bunny. Every time I see it I want to push it over to see if it would shatter like a christmas decoration. That being said, the only modern artist there I can actually wish a bad fatality on is Damien Hirst, I think he should get caught is a giant net and pinned for his butterfly atrocities.
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TedSez
10/08/09

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To me, that thing looks like (that is, it was maybe ripped off by) this thing:
[gawker.com]
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lionel-mandrake
10/08/09

@TedSez: Except Anish Kapoor would have to have made a time machine and gone back 24 years to have made his installation before Koons made his first stainless steel bunny rabbit.
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TedSez
10/08/09

@lionel-mandrake: I think my chronology is the same as yours, unless I'm reading myself wrong. (Which is certainly possible.)
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Foster Kamer
10/08/09

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The Tate Modern's an incredible museum, far more than the sterility of MoMA or the often 20 Boring:1 Decent ratio at PS1. I might have to go see this.
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NigelAstydameia
08/19/09

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Wow, the things Russians are doing with burlap these days...
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Baroness
08/19/09

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Met her once, briefly. Chatted about Kabokov (a mutual collector we know, long story). She was friendly, cute, smelled great. I really didn't know what sort of Jackie Collins scale of life she was living at the time, no idea. Seemed to have a good head on her shoulders, though. Must suck to always have armed bodyguards around though, thanks to hubby. Hm.
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Wendy_Kroy
08/19/09

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I hate her because she used to date Safin - I mean, I'm not married and I have no kids, but if I did I'd leave 'em in a heartbeat for a night with that Russian giant. Anyway, more on topic: when Safin and Zhukova were dating a British tabloid got a pap shot of them having outdoor sex on a lounge chair - so those of you unafraid of the NSFW tag might want to try Google images with safe search off...
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Wendy_Kroy
08/19/09

@Wendy_Kroy: Wait - found it...

[www.thesun.co.uk]
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bboston88
08/19/09

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Am I the only one who thinks Roman Abramovich is oddly hot? Damn this bitch.
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pufflehuff
10/08/09

@bboston88: You are not alone.
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Omitofo
08/19/09

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I went to college with her. She sat next to me in Italian Conversation she was taking because she wanted to communicate with "the help" at her house in Sardinia. how.......sweet.....
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hilikusopus
08/19/09

@Omitofo: Because Italian polite society speaks Latin, of course. Now we know what vulgaris means.
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Omitofo
08/19/09

@hilikusopus: yeah, I was a freshman and she was a junior at the time. She totally took advantage of me and copied my homework every day. She was so pretty and intense I let her! Girl was NOT an intellectual. She was also taking Russian (which is her first language) to boost her GPA.
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