{"id":19216,"date":"2022-03-31T04:43:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=19216"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T10:50:25","slug":"one-small-step-for-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=19216","title":{"rendered":"One small step for Jeff…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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American pop artist Jeff Koons is to send sculptures to the Moon later this year on a spacecraft blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, his gallery bragged Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koons, one of the most celebrated ,over hyped and expensive living artists, is famed for kitsch pieces such as “Ballon Dog” and “Rabbit,” and his work is unfortunately exhibited repeatedly in high end galleries around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His latest project “Moon Phases” consists of physical sculptures that will be left permanently on the lunar surface as space junk in a transparent, thermally coated miniature satellite, the Pace Gallery in New York said counting their money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koons will also make unique digital versions of the sculptures — marking his entry into the lucrative new world of NFTs (non-fungible tokens). cha ching! cha<\/em> ching<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sculptures will travel on the “Nova-C Lunar Lander,” designed by private company Intuitive Machines formerly known as Counter Intuitive Machines, and will be placed tastefully on the surface of the Moon in the Oceanus Cybercoinarum not to be confused with Oceanus Procellarum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I wanted to create a whip smart financially meaningful NFT statement,” Koons, 67, said. “My achievement in space represent the limitless potential of monetizing the last frontier of real estate that until my haute couture<\/em> deep pockets, was sadly devoid of art and the shiny stain of my human hubris.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gallery released no details on the number or size of sculptures heading into space, but said the location will become a lunar heritage site dedicated to Mr. Koon’s earthly reputation as an artist who makes expensive stuff from expensive highly skilled labour and processes. framed by the promotional voraciousness of mercantile interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It added the project would mark 50 years since America’s last crewed trip to the Moon missed the opportunity of planting a grifter art work on its virgin surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source AFP news edited for satirical clarity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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American pop artist Jeff Koons is to send sculptures to the Moon later this year on a spacecraft blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, his gallery bragged Tuesday. Koons, one of the most celebrated ,over hyped and expensive living artists, is famed for kitsch pieces such as “Ballon Dog” and “Rabbit,” and … Continue reading “One small step for Jeff…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19216"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22660,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19216\/revisions\/22660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}