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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:30 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... db2202.xml
Dorothy Podber, who died on February 9 aged 75, was a performance artist best known for turning up at Andy Warhol's studio and putting a bullet through a stack of his silk-screen paintings of Marilyn Monroe.
"We were Zen Communists, into aesthetic communality," Name explained. Dorothy Podber was also a member of a circle known as the "amphetamine rapture group" (other members included Rotten Rita, the Mayor, the Duchess and the Sugar Plum Fairy), and kept a bowl of methamphetamine on her coffee table.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Bob Juch
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by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:34 am
In 1989 one of the paintings, Shot Red Marilyn, sold for $4 million, the highest price ever paid for a Warhol at the time. They are now said to be worth around $17 million apiece.
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