A tongue in the museum

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has acquired the original drawing of the famous tongue logo of the British rock band The Rolling Stones for the sum of 92,500 dollars (63,000 euros) at an auction in the US. The Italian daily La Repubblica comments: "Many believed the red mouth with the protruding tongue which has been the Rolling Stones' trademark for 37 years was created by [pop art icon] Andy Warhol. ... Who could have done a better job of giving the rock rebellion synthesised visual expression than Warhol. Yet it was not Warhol but a 24-year-old student at London's Royal College of Art named John Pasche. Now the tongue is hanging in a museum, and this is only fitting considering the advanced historicalisation and museumisation of the rock culture. Nowadays the original texts, musical instruments, clothing, and everything the rock stars touched are all fetish pieces and have become objects of desire for private collectors and, more recently, public institutions."

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