Art
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Comedian
The duct-taped banana, dismissed as attention seeking a century after Duchamp did it properly. Middlebrow
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Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
His cubist scandal, cited as the moment you can see him pushing at the edge. Middlebrow
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Fountain
Not a joke piece: submitted as R. Mutt to a jury he sat on. Middlebrow
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Seated Ballerina
Koons cheerfully cataloguing his own past installations around Rockefeller Center while Dan pretended not to know. Middlebrow
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L'Homme qui marche I (Walking Man I)
Offered as a Brancusi comparison and corrected within one second, on the record. Middlebrow
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In Advance of the Broken Arm
A hanging shovel that changed art history, and cost 2.9 million, to Brian's fury. Middlebrow
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Sistine Chapel ceiling
The yardstick for how seriously Pauline Kael treated a B movie. Middlebrow
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Animation, masks
Quoted from the profile: the Shylock figure leafing through French Vogue, reciting Brautigan. Middlebrow
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The Clock
The rare video art that's riveting, which is exactly the problem with the category. Middlebrow
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Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ), Scrovegni Chapel
The fresco angels reinterpreted in the first painting Dan has ever bought. Middlebrow
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Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform)
A roomful of people loitering for a dancer who may not come: maybe that's the piece. Middlebrow