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I. B. Rad
Basquiat
drolly transformed
"Mona Lisa"
to a grotesque
presidential bust
on a dollar bill;
deriding, at least for me,
our persistent commodification of art.
For despite practitioner's pretensions,
fashionable market validated art
is a trophy investment
of the uber-rich
and our global culture's
most profitable venture
into "art appreciation."

Jean Michael Basquiat's Mona Lisa, 1983