Art collector Dakis Joannou has enlisted Jeff Koons and a crew of contemporary artists to create the most original sight on the seas.

Anyone cruising the Aegean should be warned that fantastically colorful, wildly eccentric apparition cutting across your bow is not a mirage. It’s Guilty, Dakis Joannou’s new boat.Koons and the boat’s interior designer, Ivana Porfiri, broke free of classic nautical architecture and gave birth to what their delighted patron calls “a totally magical object.” The exterior paint was inspired by Roy Lichtenstein’s mermaid for the America’s Cup racing boat competition that is now become a permanent collection at Storm King,

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