Although balloon dogs existed long before artist Jeff Koons began doing showy steel replicas of them for museum installations, his lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter to a gallery over its sale of resin bookends in the form of the canine inflatables [L Magazine]
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So, making a stainless steel replica of a doggie toy is now museum quality art? (see http://www.petfooddirect.com/product/14387/Charming-Pet-Products-Balloon-Dog-Latex-Dog-Toy )
Wow, I really hope that he does not decide to make sculpture in the manner of Lego (c)…
I hope that when the museum took the bookends off the shelf, they took his art of the wall as well.