$630,000,000 spent on contemporary art

CUT TO: Little Black Arrows, raining down on both these dorks.

CUT TO: Little red rental arrows, piledriving right up the ass of the bitter renter above.

Bubble? Huh? Oh, but it's *ART*!

NEW YORK - A pink cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was auctioned Wednesday for nearly $200,000 — more than six times what the auctioneers expected.

The sleeveless dress, worn for the scene in which Holly Golightly discovers her brother has died, sold for $192,000 to a private European buyer at Christie’s sale of film and entertainment memorabilia. The auction house said it had expected the dress to sell for as much as $30,000.

Crikey. I invent "Little Black Arrows." I add three dimensionality to Street Easy with comments on packed tanning salons and unused, leased Lexuses. I pull the kimono back so that the multigenerational gold Century 21 jackets of many posters are laid bare. I even bring "CUT TO" to The Easy, including three dimensional characters like David Lereah and his book(s) on tape. And this is the thanks I get, #103?

#104 - FYI, the dress Hepburn wore in the same movie in the opening scene (the famous Givenchy black number with the pearls when Hepburn is standing in the window of Tiffany's during the opening credits of the movie) sold for just under $1,000,000, and was bought back by the House of Givenchy for their design museum.

And #105, you have to know that we all love you. Well, sort of...

hey, where's our little artsux beatch playtoy? you didn"t run away, did you artsux?

WHERE'S our ARTSUX BEATCH PLAYTOY?!? Please come out to play again....pretty please...here, lil' bitchbitchbitchbitchbitch....

Desperately seeking attention #108? Not getting any in real life? Have so few things to do, that you have too bait people into more fights on message boards, you poor excuse for a pothead? I thought you were the cool and mellow guy that didn't let things get under his skin? You have to go troll your local park, find your dealer and get yourself some better dope, what your smoking now isn't working right.

CUT TO: Pothead leaves 200 square foot studio to find more dope. While trolling gets $20 blowjob in park porta potty.

THERE SHE IS!! i knew you wouldnt up and leave us all....yay!

Hey, angry artsux guy -

ANOTHER $600,000,000 worth of contemporary art sold in London this week, plus about $400,000,000 of additional artwork sold at the Damien Hirst exhibition in London. Many, many artist records set.

Another day, another BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF ART ($1,000,000,000).

And there you are, angry artsux guy, still in your bitter renter crapshack douchebag rental, while we're livin' large.

You definitely need to run to your computer, and start grabbing more artworks off of the artnet.com site to show people here to further display your ignorance and stupidity. Please show us more pretty picture with your retarded commentary attached - it makes us all laugh and gives us something fun to chat about in the VIP lounge at the artfairs while we're counting our money...

oh, wait, and before I forget to say it -

you gots to ccccchhhhhiiiiillllllllll ooooouuuuuttttt.

112, at it again. How's that Christadora pad, pal? It must be hard to chat in the VIP lounge at "artfairs" (one word?) while liveblogging on StreetEasy and juggling which lie you're currently stringing out (William Goldman has a great anecdote about "which lie was I telling?" You can google it when you find a Kinkos in Geneva...). (Geneva, NY, that is.) CUT TO: 112, staring self-hatingly at the pile of empty Jergens self-tanning bottles in the Comfort Inn recycling bin, mixed in with Zima bottles, pill containers, generic detergent bottles....

whoever has this much time to debate shouldn't be comlpaining about the price of anything...and definitely isn't classified as have not. at least you have spare time.

113 (angry, angry artsux guy):

Aside from that fact that 1.) your post reads like the logghoreaic manifestation of a very confused mentation process, and 2.) I suggest you go back and reread (yet again, I'm afraid) that other post you refer to (that Christadora pad the lady bought in 1986 is up 11% on a compounded per annum basis over a twenty year period through 2006), I DO love the fact that you were actually stupid enough to snap at my bait like a carp and swallow hook, line, and sinker.

And it's still funny all you can do is (like in the other post) carp and complain and call people names when the facts pile up and leave with no room to maneuver (accusing people of lying, deriding people from smaller towns in NY State, describing made up tableaux, etc.) Nothing truly substantive to add? Is that all you got to offer, little angry angry artsux guy?

And by the way, it's not Geneva, Switzerland - it's in Basel, Switzerland - BASEL, you dork.

And yup, it was another billion dollars in one week. So what did you do the last two weeks? I went to Florence, Venice, Munich, Zurich, and Basel, ate some terrific meals, went to some fun parties, saw some really, really fantastic art (and some definitely not-so-good), hung out out with friends, and earned alot of money.

So what did you do the last two weeks, angry artsux guy?? Hmmmmm???

Please take the bait again and keep going - for all our sakes - you provide us with mirth.

Your the one who is so desperate for a reply and clamoring for attention that you have me confused for 112 (I am the guy who put up those artnet posts not the comment in 112 -seems like another perceptive poster), thats someone else, so I didn't "take your bait". What happened, pot supply run out again?, because you seem to be getting more and more off your rocker. It's been two weeks since this discussion went cold and you decide to revive it. If you were so sure of yourself you wouldn't have to go dig it up and continue your desperate posts. Obviously you have a lot of insecurities to cover up.

Anyone who clicks on the examples in the posts can decide for themselves. If you think

http://www.artnet.com/PDB/PublicLotDetails.aspx?lot_id=424982204&page=4

is worth, $468,000, that's your own particular ego driven, psychotically manifested delusion, don't be surprised when others don't worship you for your taste in "art". It's time for you to go find some other way to impress and set yourself up above the masses.

"deriding people from smaller towns in NY State"?

I never, ever derided anyone from a small town in NY, so I don't know what you read or have me confused with.......... You're the one who makes fun of everyone that lives outside Manhattan. I am pretty sure the bulk of small town folks have better things to do with their wealth and more common sense than too pay 468,000 for an almost blank pieces of canvas.

Wow, I'm glad you "ate some terrific meals", "went to some fun parties", "hung out out with friends,", as if that is something to brag about. That makes you really unique, it's 2007 and you are the first person to have discovered partying. (The crowd at Streeteasy applauds) Most people do those things in High School. You sound like one of those guys who couldnt get a date when they were young and had to wait until they were in their late 30's, 40's, or 50's to buy a Porsche to pick up some young gold diggers. I am glad you found some frivilous way to make money while your living it up with your probably soon to be geriatric friends (not that their is anything wrong with being old and having a good time, but most people usually grow up by their 40's or 50's and have more serious things to do like raise children, run real businesses, etc.). Put some of it in the kitty in case this market implodes and the already weak demand for artsy fartsy middlemen quickly disappears. A billion dollars may seem like a lot to you, but its a drop in the bucket compared to other industries. Some quick, fleeting, overnight change in trends can send that money very quickly somewhere else (another market where a billion is barely a blip on the radar screen)

P.S. - For those of you who haven't seen an example of Damien Hirst's artwork:

How profoundly original, a shark in formaldehyde,

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/h/hirst/hirst_impossibility.jpg.html

Whooppeee...... I have seen more interesting things in a college Bio lab.

Hi, angry angry angry artsux guy #2:

Clamoring for attention? No. Allowing you to entertain us? You betcha.

Ooooo - and you're posting artnet.copics again! Yay! With more retarded commentary, too! Please do more - it cracks us up!

"...I am pretty sure the bulk of small town folks have better things to do with their wealth and more common sense than too pay 468,000 for an almost blank pieces of canvas..." Um, angry angry artsux guy #2,, most people don't have and never will have $468,000 of discretionary income, let alone total net worth (most of them are like you, in other words).. And for those of us who do, well, that's why we bought a piece like this a few years ago for about $225,000 and doubled our money. But you wouldn't understand that. Because you're such a financial genius in your own right!

Oh, and I do have kids, and I do run a real business - that makes real money. I mean, you basically know what I do for a living - so what do you do for a living, angry angry artsux guy #2? Hmmm? Do you have children? Or are you just talking out of your ass (again). And a billion dolars does seem like a lot to me - when it's just one weeks' turnover.

And particularly nice of you to show the Hirst - it's correct title is "The Physical Impossiblity of Death in the Mind of Someone Living." And it sold recently for $8,300,000. But that price was eclipsed at auction two nights ago when a piece by Hirst sold for $19,000,000, making him the most expensive living artist.. You should go to www.whitecube.com to see his current exhibition. You might learn something. But probably not, because you're angry angry angry artsux guy #2.

But the best part of this is your angry angry angry name calling, your total inability to make a cogent point, and your stupidity in jumping up and grabbing the bait hook, line, and sinker AGAIN - we LOVE it! You're HILARIOUS, angry, angry artsux guy #2!!!!!

I think he used Geneva to set up the joke. I guess he scored a direct hit. And Geneva (CH) has some spectacular galleries. Geneva, NY may also. Greenville, SC, where I just visited, has some very nice ones in the revitalized downtown. Probably not for trend-chasing, aging hipsters though.

Overheard in Geneva: "Kleine schwarze Pfeile/les petites flèches noires...."

118:

No, I think 113 used Geneva as a illustration because he's ignorant and has no real factual points to make, so he just flails about blindly. If that's what you mean by 'scoring a direct hit,' I would have to agree - he IS ignorant and DOES seem to continually flail about. And it's nice to know from you that Greenville SC has nice galleries - care to name one? We're just all curious in the art world which gallery over there is 'nice.' I guess I'll just have to be content with chasing the trend of making very large amounts of money in the real world art market, although I'm not that old, nor terribly hip for that matter.

119:

Overheard in Basel: "Kleine rote Pfeile/Petites flèches rouges...."