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The Great Michael Crichton Art Auction
Michael Crichton's art collection is being auctioned off soon and, uh, how had we forgotten this? Two early Rauschenbergs, a Warhol Mao, three Picassos and? "Crichton's collection of works by Jasper Johns (b.1930) is the most significant and complete to ever come to the market and contains examples that span the artist's entire career. The top highlight of the collection is Jasper Johns' Flag, 1960-66, (pictured right) a painstakingly beautiful rendition of the American flag in encaustic, has never been on the public market."
That'd be YOUR right.
Choire is behind The Awl, popping the pictures in — like the scoreboard dudes at Wrigley.
Yes, he's on the other side of my screen looking out.
For such a reactionary, he has an awful lot of artwork from the Gays.
You make a very good point to grab a hold of in the weirdness that is this story.
I breathed the hugest sigh of relief when I found that this was an auction of art collected by Crighton instead of produced him
*produced by him
All proceeds of this auction go towards stopping the weather machine radical environmentalists are using to cause global warming and clone dinosaurs.
Sometimes it takes only one book or one album to show you that somebody's library, however expertly curated it may otherwise seem, is in fact owned by a pretentious asshole with a lot of money and dubious taste.
Michael Crichton owned a fucking Tansey, people.
I knew Michael Crichton's collection was in fact owned by a pretentious asshole with a lot of money and dubious taste when I saw that it was Michael Crichton's.
Well I was trying to give his art-collector side of him the benefit of the doubt–which was obviously a mistake.
Will Michael Crichton's nuttiness also be on sale?
Heresy? I find a lot of Jasper Johns' latter-day work extremely boring. And frankly, if you've seen one Flag you've seen them all.
If I were an Olsen twin, I would be the art collector Olsen twin.