Artnet: Whoops! A Clumsy Art Fair Visitor Shattered a $42,000 Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture in Miami A sculpture from Jeff Koons’s “Balloon Dog” series was knocked over, breaking into pieces at a Miami art fair last week. But the broken artwork might still commend sales value—someone says they are ...

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Whoops! A Clumsy Art Fair Visitor Shattered a $42,000 Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture in Miami The meaning of IRIDESCENT is having or exhibiting iridescence. How to use iridescent in a sentence. Did you know?

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IRIDESCENT definition: 1. showing many bright colours that change with movement: 2. showing many bright colors that…. Learn more. Iridescent is an adjective that means lustrous and pearly, giving off a brilliant sheen like an oil slick or, well, a pearl.

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(not comparable) Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow -like colors; prismatic. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful. From Latin iris, iridis (“rainbow”) +‎ -escent. iridescent (feminine iridescente, masculine plural iridescents, feminine plural iridescentes) Borrowed from French iridescent. Watch the official music video for Iridescent by Linkin Park from the album A Thousand Suns.