In the opening crowded social event how can the sculpture be placed unsecured on a glass table - also, the sculpture had rounded smooth glossy point of contact (dog's legs).
The podium: https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_auto,w_727,c_fit/http%3A...
Why did they put no effort into protecting this piece? Perhaps because they could easily make another one if it came to it. I mean, it's just a ceramic duplicate of an ordinary balloon dog, of which a million or so are made at children's birthday parties.
Note, Koons himself produces work at scale in what he calls a factory and which is ... a factory.
A total of 799 editions of the sculpture were made.
*Completely made up number as I’m not an art valuer, but the point stands.
When my children were small, they were terrified to break things in supermarkets. I told them that it is always the supermarket fault when something is not fixed properly.
Of course this is for accidental damage.
That whoever should sue the show for anxiousness /s