Approximately 3 million dollars worth of shiny gold was melted to created Siren, the memorial statue to Kate Moss that was unveiled today in Nereid Gallery of the British Museum. The product of Mark Quinn, the statue is his second tribute to Moss, and probably weighs 100x more than the waifish model herself.

As though flying in the face of economic meltdown, the statue is reportedly the largest of its kind since the ancient Egyptians. Although Siren will be the biggest and most expensive, there are a number of weirder golden calves popping up recently:

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It was just last month that Britney Spears' birthing sculpture made waves on .. Britney Spears message boards. Now there's another artful incarnation of a celebrity in need. Artist Marc Quinn brings us Kate Moss doing yoga, "cast in bronze and then painted white, creating a flat, blank surface." He describes Kate as "a contemporary version of the Sphinx. A mystery." How she snuffs that much blow and still holds on to Lila Grace is, indeed, a mystery.

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