{"id":95459,"date":"2016-05-10T04:14:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95459"},"modified":"2023-09-04T05:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:27:36","slug":"christies-auctions-statue-of-hitler-for-17-mil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95459","title":{"rendered":"Christie’s Auctions Statue of Hitler for $17 Mil"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The sale that Loic Gouzer, Christie\u2019s deputy chairman of postwar and contemporary art, put together at 5 p.m. Sunday, the first of five successive spring evening auctions, at first seemed reckless, filling a catalog with challenging, even disturbing work. With a kneeling Hitler and a wooden grid of potatoes, it was a far cry from the auction staples that can be counted on to command high prices.<\/p>\n

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Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* As a young man I worked in an art gallery in Belgravia (i.e. one of the snobbiest parts of London) and I can confirm that the people who buy this rubbish are regarded as a joke, albeit a highly profitable one, by the people selling it. The same attitude prevails among the \u2018artists\u2019 churning out said rubbish, very few of whom have any talent beyond a hypertrophied gift for bullshitting.<\/p>\n

* I love that the potato thing didn\u2019t sell. Too subtle. You need to hit(ler) these people people over the head. A man with an Auschwitz tattoo being sodomized with a cross. A Madonna with a Down syndrome Christ pissing in his mothers mouth or perhaps the Madonna performing a coat-hanger abortion. Those would be \u201cpowerful\u201d pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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