June 2025

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Find the Ultimate Erection. "Real Art World Divorce Bomb". “Nature is the act of God.” – Dante Alighieri

Found at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, CA. 

June 1, 2025 – By Vanessa Kloudeman, writer/artist/poet/nature lover/ 2 ½ minutes to read. 

On a sunlit Sunday in June, I wandered into the Desert Garden at The Huntington and found myself overtaken by something quietly majestic. I hadn’t expected to encounter green architecture shaped so vividly into the land. Flanked by benches that seem to whisper: sit, take this in. Desert greenery climbs upward in sculptural waves, forming a living hill on either side of the path—bold, organic, and unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

According to Dr. Alfred Rossman, a Munich-based psychologist, dividing a multi-million-dollar art collection should be amicable. But in practice, the lawyers often take over. Sentimental value, ego, market potential—it all adds layers. Still, it makes sense that someone should first reflect alone. That’s what the mind needs: space, serenity, elevation.

A round-trip flight from Prague to Los Angeles? About 15 hours and 38 minutes. You take a Gulfstream G550—$240,000 tax-deductible. For that, sure, you could buy art by Dana Schutz or Jonas Wood, Katherine Bernhardt. But people crave narrative. Imagine a feature in Berliner Zeitung: Claus P. flies to California’s Huntington Gardens to contemplate the destiny of his art collection. Why not, if you can afford it? Did he create his own art performance? When people see you talking to yourself, they may think you're lost in thought—but perhaps you're deep in conversation with the gatekeeper of your next life.© Not madness, but a dialogue about art, transcendence, and nature’s erection—the ultimate creative force. Now that’s a story that makes someone unforgettable.

Art imitates art. A few days later, I was at the eponymous Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in L.A. for The Abstract Future this Summer art vernissage. My boyfriend, Roman, was being interviewed by LaArtTV. The question: “Compared to litigation, is an amicable divorce the most effective way to equitably and efficiently divide a $50 million art collection?” they asked. He didn’t blink. As a screenwriter, he knows timing. Art isn’t just value, he said. It’s memory, meaning, ego. Harmony helps turn a breakup into a final act of shared taste. And me? Definitely, I would keep the painting from our bedroom. Because some things—some loves—deserve to linger, beautifully until you forget about it.