{"id":371150,"date":"2026-10-12T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371150\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:52:17","slug":"kelly-clarkson-nyc-store-feud-art-of-play-issues-another-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371150\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Clarkson NYC Store Feud: Art of Play Issues Another Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe New York City art store Kelly Clarkson<\/a> recently slammed for giving her the \u201cPretty Woman\u201d treatment has released another statement after the singer doubled down on her initial remarks.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a Monday (Oct. 12) post on Instagram, Art of Play in Brooklyn, N.Y., wrote, \u201cWe\u2019d like to clarify some additional details about Kelly Clarkson\u2019s visit to our Curiosity Shop on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDuring the 5 minutes she spent in the store, she inquired about our mechanical bird puppet named Molly,\u201d it continued. \u201cWe explained that while Molly is permanently attached to the wall and serves as a de facto mascot for our shop, a nearly identical automaton is owned by the creator of the machines, a brilliant artist named Bliss Kolb who lives in Seattle. He told us he would be willing to part with Molly\u2019s twin for $15,000. We explained all of this to Kelly Clarkson.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe store also claimed to have \u201coffered to show her a different singing bird automaton, made by a traditional clockmaking shop in Germany, that she could have taken home with her that day,\u201d which cost $2,000, and Clarkson allegedly \u201cdid not stick around long enough\u201d to see.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve reached out to Kelly directly to try and clear the air,\u201d the statement added. \u201cWe really do wish her the best and hope that someday we can all laugh about this misunderstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Grammy winner\u2019s online feud with Art of Play has caused quite a stir on the internet over the past few days. It all started when Clarkson wrote <\/a>on X Oct. 10 that an employee had \u201clooked\u201d at her \u201cas if I couldn\u2019t afford it and was told he could find something comparable for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWow, dude,\u201d she added at the time. \u201cYou\u2019re an idiot and just lost a huge sale. But y\u2019all should go check out Art of Play in Brooklyn if you enjoy being treated like Julia Roberts character in Pretty Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe shop soon replied with its own version of events, claiming that \u201cMolly\u201d \u2014 the automated bird Clarkson had seemingly sought to purchase \u2014 \u201cis permanently attached to the wall and isn\u2019t for sale.\u201d The vocalist then doubled down<\/a> on her side of the story, sharing a photo she\u2019d taken showing a $15,000 price tag next to the Molly wall display and writing, \u201cSo you\u2019re not only rude, you\u2019re also a liar. Got it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead Art of Play\u2019s most recent statement below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City art store Kelly Clarkson recently slammed for giving her the \u201cPretty Woman\u201d treatment has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20159,6200,5415,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-371150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-feuds","tag-genre-pop","tag-music-news","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}