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That ridiculous solid gold statue of Kate Moss was unveiled at the British Museum yesterday. Weighing 50 kg and insured for $20 million, it's thought to be the largest gold statue since ancient Egypt. The sculptor Marc Quinn says that he chose his subject because Moss "is the only person who has the ubiquity and silence that is required in an image of divinity, that has been created through time, so that we can project onto it." We think he means that a coke-snorting, hard-drinking, skeevy musician-shagging, multimillionaire clotheshorse is the perfect icon for contemporary Western society, which is, of course, true. [Independent]