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talks already a big time. This ballplayer was distracted into the other thing that six eleven his course player in the american replaying Still. A thousand fierce game makes ardsley. Thinking me too, who is this tall texas transplant in how the name of Walton Matilda, did she became a star down under that's our story tonight. I believe the first piece was Jeff, Who is one of the most prominent and polarizing art stars in the world, his career. Since may look simple, but they can take decades to make and and push the boundaries of technology and sometimes taste the storm in some critics may scarf at times but that nothing new, Jeff coon's in controversial, since he first started showing his art more than forty years ago,

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and let us to Cyprus, a tiny mediterranean island at the crossroads of europe, asia and the middle EAST. As we first reported in january, the once bustling vacation spy is in the middle of an international game of hide and seek poet once described cyprus as a golden green leaf thrown into the sea the island. Just during forty miles long is wrapped in sandy beaches and a rich history. These turquoise, why according to legend, were the birthplace of Aphrodite, but today Lay ground of the gods has become a play. Land for wealthy russians produce. We headed down the southern coasts of the island to Lee miss all before the ward was a fake, spot for russians too thought a three hour flight from moscow, our limit mix designer shops, first stores, cyrillic signs and stores serving caviar earned the nickname most. Go on the med republics

alexandra otto ladys, a member of the cyprus parliament, says after the fall of the soviet union, the oligarchy who descended on the island weren't here for the beaches I can even beaches in spain and portugal in greece, there are a lot of, we'll beaches. I think that they found a fertile ground here that help them How did the russian oligarchs you cyprus after nineteen it tonight when they see, the property of the russian people and they started to be They are empires and then maybe they were afraid that some day something will happen, so they wanted their assets to be saved outside russia, so they were looking for kevin's, and we had a very low tax of eight at the time they got a place to hide their assets. Yeah sigh pros historically build a financial system to attract one

cs see Myra martini as an analyst for transparency, international, a nonprofit that the tracks, money laundering around the world. She says decades if you were an oligarch or just a shady character. Looking to hide your roubles, Cyprus was hard to beat it offers the thick received and still security, and that's what knows and corrupt individuals are usually looking for. What do you mean it? Offers secrecy so inside because for many years you could open a bank account without having a lot of questions asked you can open a compound without having a lot of questions asked many. You can put them there without needing to town who you are wear them It comes from Cyprus, because is famous for its opaque banking. As its clear water, soon. Like son starve, tourists bore in money started, pool into the island by twenty twelve The country of about a million residents had amassed bank deposits of near

seventy two billion euros about thirty percent of those bank deposit. Came from russian nationals, but in twenty thirteen the tide turned the dead crime. Sis in neighbouring greece threatened to sink the cyprus economy. Lawmakers during the country, would lose all that russian capital pushed a scheme. Other countries had used to attract wealth us internship by investment program from the beginning. For me, These was unacceptable. Here's how it worked. foreigner who invested more than two million euros in the country typically buying real estate could get. A cypriot passport coveted possession, because cyprus is part of the european union so that people slap buying the passports of cyprus they were buying the european passport. They buying an open door to twenty seven countries from twenty thirty

in twenty twenty cyprus issued almost seven thousand of those golden passports, nearly half to russians, only. The sky line of Lee miss all was injected with high rise luxury apartments, its port with megawatts and its stores with goober, wealthy russians could see. Then walking around like princess is moving in the most expensive shops. They have their business, they have their houses. There have luxury houses. in twenty? Twenty, an undercover investigation by Al Jazeera revealed corruption in the passport programmes. Not possible Cyprus had alive Billy issued hundreds of golden passports, some to criminals, and fugitives after protests and under pressure from the EU. The cyprus government shuddered the programme weeks later, but the passports were still out there when you give passports to people that late

We realise that they are criminals. Then he opened the door rob to criminals, the golden passports, all open the door of europe to russian elites. Sixty minutes has learned. that at least a dozen of these now sanctioned russian oligarchs were issued golden passports, among them who could save? Who owned a russian arms factory? billionaire alexander, panama, ranco, who was the chairman of the board of russia's biggest airport, and who do you government calls one of prudence, enablers and aluminium tycoon. Oleg Pasqua, part of putin's inner circle, according to the? U s: treasury, he's been investigated internationally for, among other things, money laundering, illegal work, your tapping and extortion accusations he denies it could set. My martini told us a cypriot passport could make it easier for those sanctioned oligarchs to buy property and move assets and at the coup relationship between one

the russians and Cyprus, is right concern internationally? If you're as law countries that is very dependent on our money coming from one single country there is also even way creating a conflict, conflict right, Sanctions are only as strong as the weakest link is cyprus, the weakest link. Here I think Cyprus s, one of the weakest links then Cyprus, minister of finance, constantinos, but disagrees we first. To him last fall. His office oversaw efforts to freeze the cyprus assets of anyone sanctioned by the EU, who has been sanctions, specifically individuals within Cyprus, in the citizenship thing about ten people were found under restrictive measures and the council. History has initiated a process to revoke their pastor passports. The ten t that have been sanctioned. Who are they

oh honey, So now would you be able to provide us with that list of names if we asked, for it would have to have to do we said, minister for treaties, a request for those names and the list of any assets have sanctioned russians that Cyprus has seized or frozen in aceh he's of emails. Patrice office responded that duty p and data protection rules. No detailed list can be made public the other eu countries have publicize detailed list of their actions. The expectations that everyone should trust the cyprus government that their implementing the sanctions they're supposed to unravel a multitude of other religions that trust the cyprus government. The cyprus government does not meet somebody to thrust it. We have those ports of their mutual assessment.

for Cyprus to those nineteen that shows all the progress made in the past years. I think that you have proved aside: who's was that we are a reliable member of that of the EU. We do admit that in the past there have been mistakes, but that was also being unfairly stigmatized. The treaties told us Sports of sanctioned oligarchs are in the process of being revoked and said cyprus has seized one hundred and five million euros of russian deposits, a big number, but just a few, action of the estimated five point: six billion euros of russian deposit maiden Cyprus. Last year. also as minister for treaties about this, the does of cyprus properties and active shell companies. We were able to trace back to sanction russians. He, does any cypriot company with an EU sanctions oligarchy listed as the owner has been placed. the increased scrutiny, but often russian oligarchs

don't lose their names, where near their assets, take the case of Woman Abramovich is planes accordingly less investigators, they were hidden, five. Shell companies stacked like russian sting dolls with addresses in baby I and british island of jersey. All leading to an anonymous trust in Cyprus. but it wasn't cyprus, authorities who ultimately moved to seize the planes. It was prosecutes from the? U s: department of justice is always been dark, corners of the international financial system and kind of like water, finding a crack that where the criminal networks will go, we're see you as deputy attorney general lisa, Monica was in charge of the department of justice is club to capture unit task with finding the assets of sanctioned oligarchy hidden around the world survey now guy fleeing sue cases of money, that's not the case, and it is not. It is

crypto in his planes at his shots, it is layer and so how do keep up with it? Even most notorious actors, whether it's the mafia, whether its rogue regimes, the bed, tool. We have is following the money. The money has deal J investigators around the world and closer to home. It turns out the tourists who visit cyprus dirty money doesn't stay on the island forever. Typically, its work, rushed and invested in other western economies. Investigator say. That's one way: oleg darrow pasqua has been able to skirt sanctions. With the task force exposed was the network of enablers and money launderers and facilitators who helped him hide. His wealth in real estate here in Washington DC and in manhattan. Indian say in the united states in artwork

in vanity businesses, including a music studio in beverly hills in their case, The deal J alleges that in twenty twenty allah, darrow pasqua arrange for one of his children to be born in the united states, even though he he was under? U s. Sanctions has achieved That's an eu citizen! Now he was a to do that in one instance, and then in the second instance that was not accomplished. Because you s customs stopped it. The government case details: how, as the war in ukraine intensified thereof, pasqua used cyprus company to arrange travel on a private from russia to LOS angeles for his pregnant girlfriend. Moving need to run a home for her in beverly hills, but when she landed in los angeles last summer, she was stopped by customs officers. Thereupon, sk at his girlfriend and the u s resident who helped him are now charged with sanctions evasion. They are not

in custody, but the deal J has announced plans to seize. Is u s properties worth in estimated seventy million dollars. Since start of the war, the? U s, as moved to seize more than a billion dollars of sanctioned assets around the world, to watch it and to those assets, we are seeking the thought be from congress to allow us to use the proceeds for the benefit of the ukrainian people. Only dara pasqua has passed We criticise the economic impact the ward ukraine could have on russia U s, investigators maintain, he is a prudent crony who is propping up. she's war machine back in Cyprus? Sixty minutes a villa in this seaside, complex offices in this building and more than a dozen active shell companies linked to volunteer, Pasqua, the site This government will not say whether it frozen any of those assets injured.

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draw a hundred thousand fans in tv audiences that per capita often outright the nfl. So why, in the name of waltzing matilda, do crowds in melbourne sometimes break into chance of usa usa? The answer as we first reported in April there cheering mason cox, a texas new stands nearly seven feet tall ranks among the best footing, players out there and might be the most unlikely. It's a story in global sports. Today, the at first glance anyway, mason Cox, comes across as the quintessential aussie rules or a fl player at age. Thirty, two he's logged more than one hundred games over eight seasons with a storied collingwood magpies the airfield equivalent of the Dallas cowboys He is in evangelist for sport. One place

an oval surface, almost double the size of an inability fully entails. While you're running about ten miles. A game looking tackling passing by putting the ball in scoring kicking the ball through the goalpost six points for splitting the center uprights one point for the sidewalks, the, unlike anything else, you've ever seen it's by the the roughest sport in the world. I'd say it's a mix of basketball football and it's mix of fucker cricket even is really no rules too. Few sticks at each end. Just try to get it through those in the nab. Whoever does more than eighteen went to look for that please, like a huge blowtorch, not only catching and kicking but master

the art of the spending, a tactic to transform than opponents back into a stepladder. Yes, it's legal It is one of the major things that verify that people look at and they go. Oh, my gosh that is insanity to sticker knees on someone else's shoulder, launch yourself up to fifteen feet in the air. Take a grab, come down and then be looking this guy going up. Artists lily jumped on top eu, having done tat very someone, already a bit big talk. Basin beatson is the most unlikely player in the history of the sport. Never mind that six would eleven he's a toss player ever to suit up or that the only american in the leg he lived. The first twenty three years of his life with out knowing the sport of foot, he even existed. He may be ah celebrity in may recently have starred in the the Ethel's equivalent of the superbowl, but still during the sports nuances and he's

fuzzy on basic footing. Facts as we observed at practice, kangaroo read what what was made out of kindness, big savings for the pigs can wash boiler society can. I knew, I think they giving greece about that. You hear them ribbing him about his axe. It. Here's calling Captain Darcy more is kind of this weird fusion between south draw and as the accident at an interesting matching it definitely loves putting it on in the locker. That's for sure the text, the straw he puts the author, for you- think the football made of cowhide by the way travels and strange trajectories did a little of Cox's story. What would you said the odds of success. We'll get away you can come to this, I one in a million all a million, because there is so many talented players all around the country that just never make it and the odds of succeeding just so it's so difficult like any prefer. sport? There are so many

things sane and unseen that make it really hard to succeed. No skills, no track record No no, no downloads living there, thousands of miles from home by himself that's an extraordinary thing home for acts was suburban doubts we're in high school he had to duck under doorway use but played soccer. The great annoyance of class me to played hoops There is no way that he's not on a basketball team is simple. What else could you possibly do it seven feet tall other than play basketball right in it is a a prime example of the desert of whole possibility of things you can do. It saddens me that work is smart. Now, what austin celtic star, who went to hide with Cox. You're here is wasted on the toll. That's the old saying you know he will all this hype was wasted on his target for nothings, but, as we've seen, snow There are after haste, Cox went to oklahoma state may during an engineering as a soft

or he was approached about an unusual on campus job practicing with the means basketball team and simulating tall opposing players, including grinder when the team was short on height. They too called on talks which reunited him a smart. Then the team star asian cox back into the game. Walk on cock spend part of three seasons as the last option on the bench. For always, you said you didn't go indeed for a little bit. He dared guard. Indeed, for a little bit, you remember, there was ok you he did guarding before for a little bit- yeah When always, you once played Kansas Cox, matched up against joy and be now The nba best players in talks held a zone. He's always had a little spunk, a little fire to him. He had moments where you know you'd be like amazing, like it was like wow. I didn't know you could do this. I didn't know you had any like is everything ok know a little bit about being a physical athlete just a just a little bit just a little bit

shortly before graduating and twenty fourteen cox lined up a six figure engineering job x on mobile then came an intriguing opportunity. A scout huh for graduating college athletes contacted a with you to see if Cox might want to attend the combine in los angeles, or this thing called a fl. It never is No, never like. Never once had an award spoke about him alive. So we google that, as everyone does and then this thing comes off inside, I felt biggest hit, it is literally people getting knocked unconscious, and yet you go to this. Combine audio. What I'm doing myself into and I picked up an unmarked white van thrown at the back It goes where I go to the hotel and we're going to do three days of training left this mathematical understanding. If americans knew aussie rules football at all, it's likely because in the nineteen eighties before it could afford in ba or nfl rights, E s, p, n or bill gates, but the sport was found.

in the eighteen. Hundreds is a way for cricketers to stay in shape in the off season. It's especially popular in melbourne where the m e g nearly four thousand capacity, the largest stadium in the southern hemisphere. Will we keenly felt for games for the combine Cox was summoned to melbourne where he impressed australian coaches with his height and his rising agility. Soon after he declined his job at exxon. Inside with calling forgive initial thyssen what he's capable of cod kick can enable some photo craig. Mccrae is now the teams head coach in toys. Fourteen. He was the head of development and assigned to it their cox, colleagues want to travel europe, but they took the football with him. I get this video lighted, not of mice in the ball in some forests in Scandinavia, somewhere nice and running really awkwardly carrying the ball like this and in chopping of all or do his foot. There is progress

and there's still a long way to go, see what he does hawks have proved his development. Like the engineer, he was supposed to be fighting the big box, making steady and deliberate progress solving the physics is abusing his height as an advantage. Not a liability Doing all of this with guys it been playing their whole lives. here we grew up sleeping with little footballs yeah we slept and breathed it. An odd lies the game. My son had none of that. What did you think he could pull it off? He's got that chip that I'm gonna proof alot of people, the made his We gave you in April twenty. Sixteen on the hallowed ground of the m c d

The annual rivalry game held on em zack day a national holiday members sitting in this lock around just thinkin myself, always smokes why this has happened pretty quickly, you're sitting here about apply in front of the most passionate fans point world on one of them, just days and you barely the sport is also the question is on rules at that point, like I didn't hundreds it knows going on, was standing arm in arm enormities teammates. When australia's national anthem started, I think myself no word and everyone else is belting about next to me. So I can't just laughed itself just gonna come along. I had no idea and that kind of took the nerves last saturday that I celebrate the game started as, if scripted cue, the spy its movie music, a ball spilled out the more got, the ball and socks and the distance and punted it to the rookie upon it in sport,

his very first kick. Can you believe, barricade first asking the fears that night? That day, I think was one is as a sort of thought that this might be something. I differ quite a long time. was literally often running his break out there. women's two seasons later in the preliminary final, like the nfl conference championship game suggested here, you start having crossed fifteen times zones whose parents were in the stands out day, as he scored three times can guide before our very eyes. As basin talks became a fan favorite, he also developed into what locals would paul a fair income. Aussi, that's gutters, really gonna hard ethic of absurd,

marvel get your acts that are the most american australian. Are the most australian american Parliament's austrian american awesome american, I'm still american, but on half and half now, flanked by captain his coach and his parents. He got his australian citizenship to prove it. and he seen more of the country's exquisite landscape than most native, but as in any sport movie, there were setbacks in this play, Sampled, a basketball player who headed down the court forgetting to dribble the win Cox was a rookie new to the sport. These bloopers were part of the novelty act and Cox was a veteran. The passionate collingwood fans were less forgiving. You say that ye bear the judgment. The criticism adding injury to insult in twenty nine keen cox was raked across the eye and again in diagnosed with two torn retinas, leaving here temporarily, blinded that he says was when he felt the distance from

I lost my senses. Often forty eight hours in had to figure out. If I ever was going to play, I fell again if I was ever going to see again. What's that internal conversation going like do, I do I come in here now. I have some it's probably affect me for the rest of my life. Was it worth it if you're quite isolated and alone six surgeries. Later he regained most of his vision was a diminished player in the great american experiment. Look to be fizzling, then Made it equipment change having Their distinguishing features becoming the first air I to wear prescription dagoes. He had one of us, last year's this year, Cox's coding say he's, never looked better than watching your practice. Thinking, americans would love. This would go crazy for twenty years in twenty years, a dozen americans played in the air fell as I go over with you.

I would love an american. A break every single record, I've done because it means that I've left a mark. You know you know how extror very likely. The stories almoner look back and thank you had the most dicky s life. You could possibly think of that makes No sense and I talk about the horns on the most of it. I'm callum, I'm a professional ear model. When I meet someone- and I tell them what I do, they generally think- I'm joking want a career as an ear model. We are not for you looking for a degree to help advance your nursing career to check us out at first got EU post university, normally being a little extra, can be a bit much, but when it comes to health care it pay to be extra and united.

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doug sculptures or the stainless steel inflatable rapid, he made that resold for ninety one million dollars a few years ago, the highest price ever paid at auction for work by a living artist. I bought a much less expensive work of his at a charity auction about ten years ago. His creations may looks simple, but, as we first reported last spring, they can take decades to make and often pushed the boundaries of technology and sometimes taste, critics may scoffed at times, but that's nothing. New Jeff coon's has been controversial since he first started showing his art more than forty years ago, you'll find the largest collection of Jeff. Coon's is work at the broad museum in LOS angeles visiting. It is like up and a strange children's party long after the kids had gone to bed, there's a painting of a party had porcelain, Michael Jackson and his chin bubbles, the kind of pop culture p atop. The hulk even makes an appearance,

the star attraction a ten foot tall, stainless steel, balloon dogs sculpture. I believe the first piece showed it to us after hours we had to. machines to make this work. They didn't exist. It may look. I filled with air, but balloon dog ways more than a ton and took Jeff coup. six years to make a start, with a balloon? I blew it up by twisted balloon dog. Did you know how to make a balloon? Don't know? I just got a little book and I saw how you do it. So I twisted up, I probably made about fifty of them and I made a mold of it and then that was used to make the stainless steel pieces. You know originally, when I made this piece, I thought that I could make it for about three hundred thousand dollars, which still that's a lot of money it ended up just to create the peace, ended up costing me one point: six it was more than what I had sold the workforce that classic coon's he's MR going over budget and his

obsessive attention to detail is legendary. He spent twenty Here's figuring out how to turn this mass of aluminum into a ten foot tall pile of plato to get these back the balls to appear suspended in the air he enlisted the help of a nobel prize winning physicist any, more than sixty thousand living flowers to create this. Forty foot, sculpture of a puppy coon's, often famous characters or art works and plays with them. Adding a gazing ball to the Mona LISA or he Ellen, everyday things, making them larger shy. near or surreal versions of themselves the rabbit. From eighty six. Eighty six like that rabbit a few years ago for ninety one million dollars he made for that. Look at first as if they're just plastic inflatable, their highly polish stainless steel and way a hundred and fifty pounds its eye because it can represent so many different things I can think of

stir. I can think of a politician with a kind of a. If the somebody making proclamations, I can think of a boy rabbit, but I think one of the most important things to me, the reason it's reflective and flexing you reflecting me, you know the viewer finishes a work of art, its it. It's about you feelings, your experiences, you're potential? Maybe you're thinking Jeff. Coon sounds like a phoney self help. Profit plenty of critics do but he does see. Art is something that can help. People have a personal transformation. Art can be anything I mean it really can be my personal experience of art is that you I don't have to bring anything to it other than yourself, so your message to people. Is you don't need to have a thief? this in our history to interact with are and what you feel from it is valid.

Says ballot is anybody else could experience? Why balloons, Why gazing balls favourable rabbit, memories, in around easter time. I would see a lot of inflatable rabbits in the yards We see gazing balls in people's yards in their gardens. Our neighbors? Who do that? Then I mean how generous they are for us. That word is dry, by or walking by. We can look and we can have a little on wonderment just further. A second time their symbols of cultural history. I grew up outside Europe pennsylvania in a rural community. We can still find gazing balls in people's yards. He has eight children sex with him. Second wife, Justine too, been married for twenty two years. They still wintertime in pennsylvania, includes his grandparents' house, part of an eight hundred acre farm

were they raise horses and cows? I think most people don't revision that this is the life you have as well famous artist I am very involved with my my work, but on the weekends in summers. Holidays is a really important. Or to my life cool, been drawing in painting since childhood in nineteen. Seventy four, while studying art in college, his mother, help to meet His favorite surrealist painters, my mother, old man. She said I just saw him now: a man Seeing that salvador dolly spends half his year in new york city at the Saint Regis hotel and I thought how ok maybe you know I'll call you but your column, I called to say, rages ass for salvador, dolly's room, and they put me in ours nervous, but I told him I was a fan and that I would enjoy very much to meet and he said it can you to new york this weekend on.

or do you, and I said yes, he said We in the lobby, at twelve o clock and did you there and he whispered tat it would never have occurred to me to like just all salvador dilated so tell room. I had nothing to lose out courage and dolly spent the afternoon together and at the end of it ass, the world renowned artist proposed for this picture. I remember you it is mustache up and is telling me, you know, kid hurry up. I can't hold this opposed, but I left new york that evening feeling like I could do this after finishing school, he hitchhiked to new york and start The king ordered in his lower side apartment by cheap plastic inflatable. Putting them on mirrors cool a grand ambitions, but he needed cash to realise them. So eventually I became licensed and registered to sell commodities and mutual funds.

and so you know that's what I started to do to be able to make more money to make the works. That's not a career move, a lot of artists. and I did it only that I can make enough money to make my vacuum cleaner pieces. The Van him cleaners he's talking about were what first got him noticed in nineteen eighty. He bought about tat a brand new vacuums and displayed them in cases with fluorescent lights part of a series call the new. I was short m for their newness, that this was a brand new object. Never used. You can see that it's clean its pristine, its lungs or pure, and there is also some central aspects to it to make essential central aspect: central media, the handle when you have the bag right there, be looked at as masculine. Were you look at it and say: oh, you know the ban I guess the world definitely is in the eye of the beholder. Wouldn't you

Jeff coon's as an artist when he first came on the scene. I was it in him, and I also was kind of repulsed by robert store former dean at the yale school of art was a curator at the museum of modern art in new york, when, choir sum of kudos vacuums in ninety ninety six. I think some Work is really unpleasant, but it does mean that series what's unpleasant about it. the imagery is is vulgar, update and vulgar means many things means the people rather than of the elite. So it's taking an object which The new yorker lead to might look at it and think. Oh, that's, tacky! That's yeah! That's trashy that something you buy in a in a gift shop and it's! blowing it up and making it perfect and saying that this has value it has meaning not necessarily valuable as meaning what is the message of that? the message is that it is there to be embraced not to be marked, that one should not be smugly,

sure of one's own taste to the point of denying the possibility of other days is he being honest about that? only on and I think that he is bade all of that fair game in a way that we have not seen since I come down like Andy warhol Jeff coon's has a factory of sorts assembly line of painters meticulously, following his instructions dozen, of digital assistance, sculptors and craftsmen all over the world, helping make his complex pieces when I met which are off inspired by very simple things: This is like a very modern grandmothers closet. That's for sure Coon's was fascinated by his grandparents porcelain, figurines as a child and has collected hundreds of them. Where did you find I found it on why it so once he decided, make this hundred fifty dollar ballerina into a multi million dollar. Eight foot tall, marble sculpture, but it wound taking him twelve years. First, he used

cat scan machine to digitally map, every detail, the figurine inside and out, and it took him five. Fears and the help of mit scientists to begin translating all those details into an options for machines to carve the sculpture, actual carving took another seven years the work? Well, really progress quickly, because we went with to a workshop in pennsylvania to check on the progress and and a yummy aoyama and her team carefully polishing the ballerina by hand how many hours of work is done on a peace, thirty thousand three. Three thousand hours affords us the handiwork, it must be exhausting the level

detail and monotony and difficulty of it is incredibly easy. Easy, like the vita, unique job. I would say that looks like a sort of a dental tool. What is what is their party sure that you know a lady, sexually or you'll notice, current is in doing the sculpting or painting he comes up with ideas and sets the standards, but he's artisans do the labour which is low criticism, including from our own morley safer. So what do you say to the man thirty years ago? Morley did a story: critiquing contemporary art, enlightened coon's, too. t burn up, selling to suckers. He does actually paid or sculpt. He commissions craftsmen to do that, Oh he go shopping for basketball and vacuum cleaners, Is that a legitimate criticism, its legitimate criticism? If you look at art in a way that a year kind of one everything to be done by the artists themselves. But

becomes very limited what you can do within one life if being responsible for everything. It's like the production of this program right now Anders if you had to be responsible for the lighting. If you had to be responsible for added, is responsible delighting? You? Wouldn't we wouldn't see you our myself, but if you'd have to be responsible for everything I mean how programmes. Would you be able to create designed don't systems so that the whole problem, as at the end of the day, it's as if every mark was made by myself at sixty, eight coon's has reached a level of commercial success. Few artists ever imagined help design cars for Bmw, an album for lady gaga, even for that. One aim and later this year he hopes to create a permanent art, exhibit on the move made a hundred twenty five small stainless steel moon sculptures and

to them on a lunar landor, to ride a border spacex rocket. Is there something about the atmosphere in the moon that would affect the lifespan of a work almost everything You know you have tremendous radiation, the temperature change, at least two hundred fifty degrees difference from nine to day and one of the most inhospitable environments said there You could imagine for a work of art them Sculptures are for sale, of course, along with an n tea or non fungible token, which serves as digital proof. Your artwork is actually up there. The also at one of these larger moons to show off here on earth, you won't say how much it will cost you but which have coon's it's a safe bet. The price tag will be out of this world,

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