28 May 2015

This painting just sold for $179,300,000 - updated


There are a lot of things a person could do with 179 million dollars.

Via BoingBoing.

Addendum:  A New York television station (MyFoxNY) felt it necessary to perform a digital mastectomy on the image when they broadcast the story:

8 comments:

  1. :-) i just downloaded that image from this page with a few clicks. for free. :-)

    I-)

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  2. Uber-rich assholes with nothing better to do with their money...

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  3. Didn't this very website, link an explanation/comic of Supernormal Stimuli once. Well, then you should know, that a rather abstract crude drawing can be rather arousing / obscene, measurably more so than the real thing. Even art exhibitions often have a kind of "saloon doors entrance" in the back, depicting some of the racier stuff.
    I'll be happy to check back later, for the history of the open nipple bustier depicted or is it a Dirndl.

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  4. Oh my! May 28th Anonymous seems to think you're now a purveyor of pornography, Minnesotastan!

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    1. I've nothing but respect and admiration for the work Minnesota is doing, it was just a cheeky remark pointing out that things are rarely as simple as we like them to be.

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  5. Oh my! May 28th Anonymous seems to think you're now a purveyor of pornography, Minnesotastan!

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