The two children challenge Spot the leopard. They don’t want $pot, they don’t understand him, he’s a loose cannon, and though he creates a lot of excitement and will bring in a big audience, he’s thrown out because he’s too wild and unpredictable.
In our story, remember that much like zoos, museums are public institutions, because people need a place to see the animals, but entry to the cages is strictly controlled by the keepers. He’s disturbing the other animals and the whole system the zoo is based on. Lopshire’s story, when the leopard walks into the zoo, the keepers pick him up and throw him out the front gate. Spot the leopard confides to the children, “Why did they put me out this way, I want to be in, and I want to stay!” In Mr. He has played with every taboo, including making huge amounts of money by selling directly through an auction house and still getting his dealers to cater to him, flatter him and play his game even though he flaunts his disrespectful spots to them and everyone else who’s looking. In the past decade there has also been a direct engagement with money, since he’s made gold spots and gold formaldehyde cases. He’s unruly: He juggles, he changes colors, he keeps inventing new ways to play with spots. “Out you go, out with you.” The curators, the art critics and the whole art establishment don’t want $pot in because he doesn’t play by the rules, and he’s not acting like the other animals.
“We do not want you in the zoo,” they tell Spot the leopard. In fact, he once fearlessly told me that he “weighs his press by the pound.” In our story, he reveals that, deep down, he still wants to get into the zoo, where he can be exhibited with all the other animals.Īt this point, the zookeepers chime in. Spot the leopard continues, “I would like to live this way this is where I want to stay.” $pot always claimed that he didn’t care about museums and what other people thought of him. His wish will come true at London’s Tate Modern this coming May, though by now he’s so supersized and has produced so much art that much of it won’t be exhibited. $pot has never had a retrospective show in a museum, though for almost 20 years he’s been the most talked-about artist in the world. At the outset of the tale, Spot, the leopard, says to the two children, “I will go into the zoo, I want to see it yes I do.” Let’s take the zoo as a metaphor for the museum.
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