The statue, which depicts Jackson and his pet chimpanzee "Bubbles," is part of an exhibit of contemporary art culled from the collection of German businessman Friedrich Christian Flick.
haha! did Kantor say anything else as to why picked that painting from that collection? It seemed like he was making a political statement because the collection was on loan from Flick who is a grandson of a Nazi industrialist. basically he put his "hip brand-name contemporary art" collection on loan to Berlin's art gallery for several years but he has no intention to pay to maintain the exhibition...the taxpayers will. It was just very insincere move that looks like and probably is a strategy of hiking up his art collection price by exhibiting it.
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Date: 2004-12-02 03:52 pm (UTC)haha! did Kantor say anything else as to why picked that painting from that collection? It seemed like he was making a political statement because the collection was on loan from Flick who is a grandson of a Nazi industrialist. basically he put his "hip brand-name contemporary art" collection on loan to Berlin's art gallery for several years but he has no intention to pay to maintain the exhibition...the taxpayers will. It was just very insincere move that looks like and probably is a strategy of hiking up his art collection price by exhibiting it.