Artist just can't stop loving the King of Pop: there have been not one but four different works featuring the mighty moonwalker on show at Frieze at some point this week. Homage, irony, bandwagon-jumping...or simply taking the Michael? Clockwise from top left: Jonathon Monk's Black Bubbles, 2009, ink-jet and acrylic on canvas, 35,000 euros, at Yvon Lambert (D3); Gary Hume's Michael, 2002, screenprint, edition of 80, $5,000, at Matthew Marks (C9); Paul McCarthy's Michael Jackson, Red, 2002, c-print in four parts, mounted with Plexiglas, foamcore and wood, around $500,000, at Hauser & Wirth (C10); David LaChapelle's Archangel Michael: And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer, 2009, digital colour print, $60,000, at Paul Kasmin (E14).
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