Talk:Mark Kostabi

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Mark Kostabi's book, Sadness Because The Video Rental Store Was Closed, includes many beautiful and unique works of art. The book is somewhat rare, but can be found from used dealers. Interestingly, it varies greatly in price depending on the seller. Good copies can be acquired for as little as 9 or 10 dollars, while others sell them for over 100 dollars. The Strand bookstore in Union Square, New York City, has a good condition copy in a locked glass display case. Of over "18 miles of books," it is one of only a few that is honored with being displayed behind glass. Also of note is that the book carries no price tag, but a simple inquiry to the staff will yield a price of 75 dollars. Amazon.com currently (June 10, 2006) has a seller giving up a used copy, signed & dated by Mark Kostabi, for less than 10 dollars. To further the discrepency issues, another seller on the same Amazon page is asking more than 100 dollars for a non-signed copy in similar condition.
 * This above text smacks of self promotion. I do think though there is enough documentation to warrent writing about Kostabi. Whether you like him or not, he is indeed notable IMHO, but the text above is not NPOV and is promotional, i.e. this is what should not be included.--LAgurl (talk) 21:56, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

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needs some work
this reads as a puff piece.. i'll try to do some work on sourcing it, and making it more objective,but any help is welcomed.. this guy is primarily notable b/c he signs his name to other artists' work and takes credit for the works as his own... --Jkp212 (talk) 16:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Additional Article
I added an article entitled "Kostabi`s Commode Confessional" that appeared in LA`s Coagula Art Journal some time ago. Given the nature of the magazine I am not sure if it is a paraody or a real article and acurrate quotes from Kostabi.

Facebook
The text here is pretty much verbatim from Kostabi's facebook info page. 70.143.75.183 (talk) 09:06, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Vanity Fair comments
It is pretty astonishing that no mention is made here of Kostabi's fall and (continuing) exile from the New York art scene as a result of some comments he made in a 1989 Vanity Fair interview wherein he claimed, “These museum curators, that are for the most part homosexual, have controlled the art world in the eighties. Now they’re all dying of AIDS, and although I think it’s sad, I know it’s for the better. Because homosexual men are not actively participating in the perpetuation of human life.” From what I understand many protests against the display of his work followed and this is why almost no one knows about his work today. This whole entry pretends as if nothing ever happened.  S a u d a d e 7  03:23, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I hear what you are saying, but to say "no one knows about his work" is a bit of a stretch. Seeing as the art world is very hierarchal, do you perhaps mean
 * perhaps to say "no one of the art world's upper echelon knows abouLike him or hate him, the f his w that k.."? Fact is, Kostabof his ari t sells enough to afford him a utaff, and a stidio/ gallery in both New ond hark and Rome, has appeared in variou. He even did a sculpture for the Vatican. One cannot achieve all this an be an unknown artist. I would wager though, that there are probably art world elites who, in fact, do know of Kostabi but are pretending they have never heard of him.s documentaries 208.184.249.94 (talk) 17:57, 6 October 2022 (UTC)