I wish people would remove my quote, made before I knew of the alleged allegation that he is the same Paul Wroe that has been complicit in many underhand dealings.

I obviously wouldn't have made that statement had I known

They had them when I was there.

The reason I always quote is for context, so my posts can (to the extent possible) be read in a standalone manner, without having to refer back to separate posts elsewhere in a thread.

While appreciating the awkwardness of your position, in this instance I'm confident there isn't any confusion. No one should be under the impression you were aware of burgerman's real identity or history at the time you addressed him.

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There's also an advantage in highlighting your post: If even a moderator can be misled without difficulty, that emphasises the importance for other members to exercise caution when dealing with each other. It's easy to get a false sense of security here. Jovial banter may give the impression we're in the company of trustworthy acquaintances — when in reality they're often just anonymous strangers with familiar avatars.

[Who remembers that friendly chap from the Greater Toronto Area, Robert Dubeau / morrissey1, his supposed fundraising for charity, and his screwing over of Michael Jacob? Surely a random person on the internet must be honest if they (i) post on the forum and (ii) are Canadian and a Morrissey fan. How could anyone satisfying all of that criteria not be honest?]

Things are usually fine until money enters the equation and somebody decides to break a promise they made to another person.

The 'Not So Good Dealings With:' thread can be useful here as well, by helping to identify, inter alios, members whose word of honour means nothing the second it becomes financially inconvenient:

urbanartassociation.com/thread/92154/good-dealings?page=1

I'm not sure how good is art that takes a well known cartoon caracter and puts X's where the eyes are or takes a Michelin man and puts another head on the body. Some people say Kaws is subverting advertising. Others say Kaws is just braning himself on the back of advertising and well known cartoon caracters. Others say kaws is a hypocrit.


www.voicesoftomorrow.org/us/kaws-reshaping-the-urban-landscape/
""In the 1990s, KAWS received a skeleton key from a fellow artist that unlocked the bus shelters around the city. KAWS removed commercial advertisements from brands that he admired, painted his own iconography of Pop inspired characters on top of them, and then reinstalled the posters. We refer to these pieces as “subversive,” or we call them “interventions,” but the art that KAWS placed on top of the advertising graphics is in no way overtly political. It seems to beg the question of what the artist was really subverting, since most pieces appear to be celebratory of a designer.""



www.jeremyriad.com/blog/art/sculptures/remember-those-kaws-6-foot-under-companions/

""A couple days after I published my story, I got a very nice email from the museum politely requesting that I remove the photos that showed the KAWS Companions in coffins. The actual coffins had already been removed from the physical exhibition, and the museum was now following a daunting directive from the KAWS camp: rid the Internets of all evidence. I thought about it for a while, and I decided to comply. Here’s why: I LOVE when museums exhibit toy art, and although I didn’t agree that it was KAWS’ business to police a collector’s choice of display (let alone task a museum curator with wiping out photos from the Web), I didn’t want the museum to suffer for a couple of contraband jpegs.

Naturally, I did inquire as to WHY KAWS objected to the coffin displays, and I’m not sure he provided the museum with a specific reason. What I got was along the lines of it being a violation of his proprietary rights because he hadn’t intended the art to be displayed in this way. I suppose it’s not impossible to get KAWS’ POV on this: KAWS coffins could be seen as suggesting that “KAWS is dead”. But to anyone with eyeballs not covered by X’s (and a calculator to add up values), it’s so clear that this wasn’t Varol’s intention.

But the question remains: Can an artist claim “proprietary rights” to how his/her editions are displayed (in perpetuity)? And if so, should he/she? And if so again, does it matter if in doing so, the affected artist comes across as something of a hypocrite?""

Your pictures are always exceptional dell. I know it is a passion of yours. These are the best pictures I've seen of these sculptures. Thanks.

Smashing photos. What kit you using?

wtf is a lightroom when it's at home?

A darkroom for digital media, ok cheers. I think we can still call it a darkroom perhaps, but if a lightroom is what it's going to be called I can live with that.

Dellboyy those are some really awesome pics. thanks for sharing.

Finally made it up to the show for my birthday this weekend.

What an amazing place. Kaws stuff is fantastic, but there is so much more to the place than the Kaws show. It's just annoying that it's a 7 hour round trip!!

Brilliant for the kids too. I won't bore you with more pictures, but here's the obligatory OMG artworld one!




It's on for one more week. If you have a chance to go make the effort too you will not be disappointed.

Fabulous to see your photos with your lovely daughter in them again dungle.
I agree, the huge Kaws sculptures are amazing.

Couple more from YSP...  will get around to to the gallery pics at some point!

OK, the last few pics (probably ) from the indoor bit, nothing special, but here you go!

The top photo is brilliant. Nice work