Un homard dans le Chateau de Versailles, quelle horreur!

From scavenger to exorbitant ornament, Koon's Dali-esque (made to look like a plastic, blow-up, paddle pool toy) replaced a crystal chandelier in the King's quarter. Hanging from the hooks of a 17th century embellished boudoir, the cast iron bearded crustacean was happily suspended in the public eye. An installment of this century's largest artist tycoon went up over four months ago yet it's mind-boggling brazenness continues to astonish. The rather adorable misfit installations in the plush chambers of the French hauteur enraged a large chunk of conservative France despite the curator's justifications. On an unsavory October day, the Hall of Mirrors was swarming with all sorts of tourists and locals visiting the Chateux in hope to decipher what they heard was a scandalously modern display of pop art in Versailles' most visited chambers.

The most covertly audacious ouvres in Koon's entire installation was that of The Large Vase of Flowers in Marie-Antoinette's chamber where each and every one of the one hundred and forty fertile pistils representing purity, vanity and beauty were in actuality one hundred and forty little assholes. The polychrome and carved wood flowers conspicuously mimic the ornate Baroque style bedroom exceeding an expense that not even Marie-Antoinette could have afforded in her prodigal heyday.