This week's question: A Miami art show attendee accidentally knocked over a $42,000 Jeff Koons balloon dog sculpture, shattering it to bits. If the art world's king of kitsch were to present the remnants of the dog as a new work, what should he name it?
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Troup Miller, Austin
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