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This post was published on 20/01/08 in Gallery, Pisani's picks.

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  1. Comment by Lee Rudolph, 21/01/08, 03:41:

    There’s no question but what this sort of thing will make the task of future academics, called upon to give an expertise (and get a small honorarium) for Sotheby’s, a bit simpler. No need to dither about investigating fine points (“was this paint actually on the market when the alleged Pollock was painted?”), all they’ll need will be access to the coming DNA database of all UK offenders. (Certainly artists are offenders? This one appears to want to be, anyway.)

    Myself, I’ve always been very suspicious of Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ”. Sure, he *says* that the small plastic crucifix in the photo was submerged in his own urine–but how do we *know*?
    Could have been Budweiser for all the non-testimonial evidence we
    have.

    Sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s I ate a grain of rocksalt that had been (until that moment) part of an installation by Joseph Beuys at MOMA. But I draw the line at similarly sampling Mr. McKenzie’s line drawings (or still lives, as the case may be), even as part of an expertise (“definitely salty, with overtones of sieved charcoal and a lingering aftertaste of fixative; may not age well, best consumed while still young and slightly _petillant_”).

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