Kate Moss -- worth her weight in gold?

As far as stunt art goes, it's an unbeatable formula. Take a notorious pop celebrity (the more emotionally troubled and accident prone, the better); create a life-size statue of him or her; stand back and let the bidding begin.

Sculptor Marc Quinn has unveiled a 50-kilogram (110-pound) gold statue of supermodel Kate Moss at the British Museum in London as part of its "Statuephilia" exhibition. The 18-carat sculpture, titled "Siren," is worth an estimated 1.5 million British pounds, or $2.6 million. The artwork portrays the runway goddess in a bizarre yoga-like pose, her torso sticking through her lotus-shaped legs.

The lovely Kate, whose troubles with cocaine have made her permanent paparazzi fodder, joins...

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— David Ng

Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis / Associated Press

Comments

[Kurt C]

Well why not?
It has been given notoriety simply because of its beauty not its usefulness or progression in any way to our culture, it garners attention because it is avant guard provocative and is something strangely unpredictable reminds us all what we dont have -which is all the attention we've all craved since it became apperant (to some) as children that the world does not revolve around us, and people wont give you the attention you desire from them unless you are either really good or really bad at something. It makes me sad the we as a society dont want more then that, but it makes me happy that I can define what veiw as valuable.