Off the Wall

Beer & Queso
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We have the real Mona Lisa over the fireplace. The one at the Louvre is a copy.

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I thought I was getting Marcel Duchamp’s, Nude Descending a Staircase, but all I got was a picture of a naked girl falling down the the steps on some random back porch.

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I think I took that with my iPhone

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Neil is living the plot of Glass Onion

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I was thinking of The Freshman. Of course in our house it’s true, that is the Mona Lisa.

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Next you’ll tell us you once had Boy With Apple, but it was stolen.

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From Fonda San Miguel — entitled “El Podcast”

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According to my attorney, that is not Edward Munch’s 1910 original “The Scream” hanging on my wall. Nor do I have his “Madonna.” Because the originals were obviously recovered by Norwegian police.

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This week in art has been bananas.

Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at art auction

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Cattelan is a Genius! Six Million for one Banana.

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You really need two bananas for banana bread.

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I see some similarities between Gorman and a dear frind of mine, Frank Arnold, https://frankarnoldart.com/. @MikeS met him down in Cabo. Great person, great artist.

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It’s one banana. What could it cost, six million dollars?

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The local store has bananas for .25 or .50 a pound.

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My understanding is the $6 million is for the publishing rights to duct tape a banana against the wall and call it “Comedian”. Minus the 10 cents for the actual banana. Personally, I’ve never named my fruit, even when affixed to the infrastructure, but I’ll have to cross that name off the list if I ever decide to.

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Who ever wrote the “Artist Statement” for a duct taped banana, must be one great salesman. The true achievement is the artfulness of marketing a piece of fruit and an adhesive as an art piece worth $6 million that cost less than $6 dollars to produce.

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I did indeed. And thank you again for the introduction. Kara and I had an amazing evening at his gallery hanging out with Frank and wife. I’m going to frame the print we bought of one of his paintings for Christmas (our modest budget couldn’t cover the cost of the real thing). I’ll post a photo of it once we have the print on the wall. It’s beautiful.

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I like all of those. I have a living room wall with nothing but Negro Leagues art, which was my #1 project during the pandemic’s worst days.

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There’s always money in the banana stand.

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