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Orgy Of The Rich: Art Collectors Eat Clay At Cuts Protest

by | 18th, February 2011

WERE you in New Bond Street for the Arts Against CutsUK Uncut and Space Hijackers protest against government cuts? The protest as called “orgy of the rich“. (We used to want to eat them, but shagging them first might be more tasteful.)

Meanwhile, inside Sotherby’s contemporary art auction, the money on the wall went for £44.4 million. The highlight as a pile of 1,000 hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds by Ai Weiwei sold to a telephone bidder for £349,250.
That’s almost as mush as actual commodities are going for.

As they say at the orgy: “Let them eat clay!



Posted: 18th, February 2011 | In: The Consumer Comment | TrackBack | Permalink