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| | Art in America: Numbers racket - art collaborators Komar & Melamid, conceptual art, Alternative Museum, New York, New ... |
 | | Accompanying the art works in New York were photocopies of the full poll results, ostentatiously chained to tables to prevent their being spirited away by visitors eager to capitalize (pun very much intended) on this first-ever compilation of "scientific" viewer-demand information. |
 | | Komar & Melamid took their initial attitude-research idea to the Nation Institute,(1) which in turn put them in contact with Marttila & Kiley, whose clients have included the NFL players' association, B'nai Brith, the Children's Museum in Boston and politicians such as Edward Kennedy, Gary Hart and Joe Biden. |
 | | Marttila & Kiley's fee was $80,000, but John Marttila, a former gallery owner, agreed to take half of this payment in the form of art, with the balance (for overhead expenses like space rental computer time and telephone service) supplied by interested foundations, businessmen and collectors. |
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