this is fantastic up close. i'd forgotten we saw this koons piece at versailles. i was reminded of it just now, whilst finding myself gazing, slack-jawed, upon the man's gold plated coffin, via bbc2.
we went to see the banksy show today, and surrounded by commandeered ice cream vans and terrorist rats, look what else we saw:-
it's not good. it was surrounded by those nasty electronic candles and some silk flowers, for god's sake. i'm not sure which image is more distasteful- this, in all its' terrible execution, hastily wheeled out in some confused attempt at 'faux' timely reverence; or that coffin being wheeled out just now to jive with the all-too-fresh bad taste in the mouth left by joe jackson hawking his blu-rays out front- but this one was certainly hardest to explain to my son, for more reasons than immediately apparent. so yeah, thanks for that, banksy.
although rudy did enjoy the animatronic chicken mcnuggets. yes, i did just type that.
ooh, blanket is there. yay blanket.
r.i.p.
p.s. edited to add that paris ripped my heart right out, and i'm not judging prince for chewing gum throughout either.
