murakami my lonseome cowboy deserves its 15m

1) it is the last great iconic sculpture of the 20th century
2) it is a mark of the pacific rim culture working farther and faster then east coast and euro work work
3) it is a work of fantastic, joyful biro
4) it is funny, and sexy, and amusing, which are things often over looked
5) it is as good or better then the more iconic koons work, the person he is closest too, and koons is getting twice that
6) there is a literal, art historical baroque sensiblity to it, its over size dimensions, its slickness of surfaces, its raptous xtc, but all of that abstracted and made renewed---it can be compared to berinini of course, but w/o the religious baggage.
7) the political and social implactions of post war japan, and his anaylsis of post war japan, beginning with comfort brides and ending with otuaku, are folded into this work
8) it rewards flatness and betrays the notion that formal flatness cannot carry the signifers of history
9) it is paraodic of phallocentric bravado, and with the companion woman, provides a model for a new eden.
10) because it causes people such discomfort