This sold for $58 million dollars. WTF!

[El Diablo Blanco]

Jeff Koons's "Balloon Dog" fetched $58.4 million, a record for any piece of art sold at auction by a living artist.

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania.

[gym**rat]

Jeff Koons's "Balloon Dog" fetched $58.4 million, a record for any piece of art sold at auction by a living artist.

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania.

IWHI, just saying.

[Croatch]

So....it's a replica of a dog balloon, except 8 feet high and shiny?  Great original idea....I'll take it!  58 million you say....haha, that's nothing for me, SOLD!

If you appeal the right rich asswad, you can sell pretty much anything.  I wonder how much Nassar's soiled posing trunks would fetch, if marketed the right way?  2 million?

Put that oversized dog on Craigslist, you'd get no more than $250....the truth.

Art is subjective, so who's to say what is and isn't great?  If rich people like your work...it is now more important?  Take a painter in the barrio who has serious skill.  Maybe he'll get $150 for a great piece, this guy makes a gross amount on something not even original.
Rich art collectors are about ego as well...they have someone over and vaguely mention....that piece there is 2 million...I couldn't believe I even bought it....haha, it's just money...la la la.

Translation: I wish I had 58 million to piss away.

[keanu]

I wouldn't pay more then 30 bucks. Seriously. Even if the Pope made it while being possessed by the devil.

[Knooger]

IWHI, just saying.

How? I'd like to fuck it too, but I can't figure out how to do it.

[MAXX]

Buyer doesn't care about the "art" object itself. Just making a statement. 'Look at me I'm rich and important'.

[pedro01]

Is this not the man that married an Italian porn star/politician?

[Cleanest Natural]

I fail to see the skill involved, let alone justify the price tag. What a messed up world. But again, when you pay teenage monkeys to throw a ball through a hoop 100 million or to run into each other ..

[pedro01]

The buyer is dumb.

Much like gals that buy Louis Vuitton bags for thousands of dollars.

The bags cost $20-$30 to make. The rest of the price is based on nothing more than the buyer wanting to walk around with a $3,000 handbag. That's what you are buying. Not a great bag but a display of wealth.

It is quite sad really, that people with money are so concerned with showing their wealth that they get bent over to such a degree and piss the money away on shite.

[Meaningless]

The buyer is dumb.

Much like gals that buy Louis Vuitton bags for thousands of dollars.

The bags cost $20-$30 to make. The rest of the price is based on nothing more than the buyer wanting to walk around with a $3,000 handbag. That's what you are buying. Not a great bag but a display of wealth.

It is quite sad really, that people with money are so concerned with showing their wealth that they get bent over to such a degree and piss the money away on shite.

Less.

[Cleanest Natural]

Another masterpiece by the same creative genius..

[The Showstoppa]

I'm not going to bash the "artist".  Its the turds buying this crap that are morons.

[pedro01]

I'm not going to bash the "artist".  Its the turds buying this crap that are morons.

Absolutely - there is no way Jeff thought this would go for $58M.

If anyone wants one of these, I can put you in touch with someone that can knock one up for $5k.

[XFACTOR]

I guess while we are on the subject of Art, have any of you been to the Guggenheim? In NY for an extended work trip next week want to do something aside from work and eat and workout at Crunch.

Done Moma a few times so that's out. Any other cultural things there worth seeing?

[The True Adonis]

The buyer is dumb.

Much like gals that buy Louis Vuitton bags for thousands of dollars.

The bags cost $20-$30 to make. The rest of the price is based on nothing more than the buyer wanting to walk around with a $3,000 handbag. That's what you are buying. Not a great bag but a display of wealth.

It is quite sad really, that people with money are so concerned with showing their wealth that they get bent over to such a degree and piss the money away on shite.

Thats actually not true at all regarding Vuitton bags. Not to mention the vegetable tanning process of the select leather.

[The True Adonis]

Gucci Bags are handmade as well.

[The True Adonis]

Less.

Totally not true at all.  You have no clue what you are talking about.

[DroppingPlates]

Imagine how many top notch whores you can bang and how much coke you can sniff for that money...

[The True Adonis]

[El Diablo Blanco]

The buyer is dumb.

Much like gals that buy Louis Vuitton bags for thousands of dollars.

The bags cost $20-$30 to make. The rest of the price is based on nothing more than the buyer wanting to walk around with a $3,000 handbag. That's what you are buying. Not a great bag but a display of wealth.

It is quite sad really, that people with money are so concerned with showing their wealth that they get bent over to such a degree and piss the money away on shite.

I used to think the same about chicks that buy Loubiton shoes for $1000 until I saw how they made them.  They spend a shitload of time and money to make these shoes.  The materials alone cost them a couple hundred then the time put in, even if it cost them $10 an hour ( it is not some Chinese slave making them but an Italian leather expert) it would be $200 right there in labor but I bet he charges more per hour.  So the shoes really do cost hundreds to make each.

[The True Adonis]

[El Diablo Blanco]

Thats actually not true at all regarding Vuitton bags. Not to mention the vegetable tanning process of the select leather.

Agree.  They do spend a lot of money on materials and the craftsmanship.  Now  Are these videos full of shit showing some Italian artist making a bag but in reality they pay some Chinese slave 10 cents an hour to do the same?  Maybe the Italian craftsman made the original first one and that is what the video shows but then they make the rest in china.  Who the hell knows.

[The True Adonis]

Agree.  They do spend a lot of money on materials and the craftsmanship.  Now  Are these videos full of shit showing some Italian artist making a bag but in reality they pay some Chinese slave 10 cents an hour to do the same?  Maybe the Italian craftsman made the original first one and that is what the video shows but then they make the rest in china.  Who the hell knows.

No they don`t at all.  Only master craftsmen are employed.  I do know.  That is total bullshit what you are saying.  I work closely with many different craftsman that work hand making for these brands.

[The True Adonis]

With all the above posted, the purple dog is pure shit.  This I assure you. 

[Henda]

58 million for that piece of shit. I would have refused it if it was free.