Tag Archives: Jeff Koons

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Big, Broad Bunker Hill

by Catherine Wagley | Jan 13, 2011

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Big, Broad Bunker Hill

by Catherine Wagley | Jan 13, 2011

Eli Broad, Los Angeles’s most aggressive philanthropist, nearly always wears solid, primary colored ties. Last Thursday, he wore a red one to unveil the plan for his new museum on …
Black Kites, 1997

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 10, 2011

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 10, 2011

In this week’s roundup, Gabriel Orozco arrives at the Tate, John Baldessari wants your name in lights, Stockholder, Orozco and Koons display a new object-ivity, Carrie Mae Weems wants us …

Memorial Photographs: An Interview with Jason Lazarus

by Caroline Picard | Jan 5, 2011

Memorial Photographs: An Interview with Jason Lazarus

by Caroline Picard | Jan 5, 2011

When Michael Jackson died, an impromptu dance party took place just outside my window. A young woman pulled up in a car wearing her best 80s outfit; she turned on …

Looking at Los Angeles

(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists

by Lily Simonson | Dec 23, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists

by Lily Simonson | Dec 23, 2010

Since last year’s Top 10 list was posted, we have seen the passing of two individuals who have greatly impacted both the art world as well and entertainment world.  Dennis Hopper …
John Baldessari x-mas

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 20, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 20, 2010

Just in time for the holiday season, this week’s roundup brings to you plenty of news, including last-minute gift ideas such as President Obama’s children’s book homage to Maya Lin, …

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | Notes from Underground: William Powhida

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Dec 4, 2010

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | Notes from Underground: William Powhida

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Dec 4, 2010

The contemporary art fair Art Basel Miami Beach takes place this week, bringing with it a flurry of activity.  In the spirit of participation, Ink is dedicated this month to …
Paul McCarthy

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 22, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 22, 2010

In this week’s roundup, William Kentridge receives the Kyoto Prize! Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy have childish things on exhibition and more! William Kentridge has been …

A Conversation with RxArt President and Founder, Diane Brown

by Jonathan Munar | Nov 11, 2010

A Conversation with RxArt President and Founder, Diane Brown

by Jonathan Munar | Nov 11, 2010

Rob Pruitt, Looking, Longing, 2008. Installation view: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. Photo courtesy of RxArt. One of the experiences that I miss the most about working in …

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 26, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 26, 2010

In this week’s roundup: Kim Kardashian wears Barbara Kruger, Collier Schorr makes art about a German village, Jeff Koons works from popular archetypes, several artists are in group shows, and …

Gastro-Vision

Contemporary Sculpture, How Sweet It Is

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 15, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Contemporary Sculpture, How Sweet It Is

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 15, 2010

Has Walter de Maria’s New York Earth Room ever made you crave brownies? Have you ever noticed how much Andy Goldsworthy’s Storm King Wall looks like a meandering Payday candy …

Flash Points

Making the Most of It

by Louise ONeil | Sep 24, 2010

Flash Points

Making the Most of It

by Louise ONeil | Sep 24, 2010

I’ve always thought of artists as romantic creatures. Their desires are truly unlike those of any other profession in the world. While many people work their way up in careers …
BMW Art Car, Jeff Koons

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 13, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 13, 2010

Back after a two-week hiatus Art21 blogger Nettrice R. Gaskins takes the Weekly Roundup baton, so to speak.  In this week’s roundup you’ll read about Cindy Sherman wall decals, crying, …
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Art21 Extended Play

Jeff Koons: Art History

by Wesley Miller | Jul 2, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Jeff Koons: Art History

by Wesley Miller | Jul 2, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE SUPPORT ART21: In the next 15 days Art21 seeks 34 new donors to add to its list of 100 x …

Koons on your Google homepage?

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 10, 2010

Koons on your Google homepage?

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 10, 2010

Today Google unveils a new “choose your own background” feature. According to the company’s official blog, “You can choose a photo from your computer, your own Picasa Web Album or …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2010

A tribute to a great artist, a series of German faces, a big film of tiny things, some drawing restraint, and a bunch more in this week’s roundup: The Emilio …
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Art21 Extended Play

Jeff Koons: Potential

by Wesley Miller | Jun 4, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Jeff Koons: Potential

by Wesley Miller | Jun 4, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE SUPPORT ART21: With 54 donors from around the world who have pledged their support, we have just 46 spots left …

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Intro

by Erin Sickler | May 24, 2010

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Intro

by Erin Sickler | May 24, 2010

The United States has always fostered a strange and ambiguous relationship to the arts.  In 1825, John Quincy Adams recommended that the country establish a national university, observatory, and other …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 26, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 26, 2010

In today’s roundup, you’ll read about rabbits and cracked eggs, love in the Ole South, community art making in the Twin Cities, an amusement park in Paris, a family of …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

One artist in Rome, four artists in San Francisco, three artist talks from the U.S. to the U.K., and more in this week’s roundup: On April 9, Gagosian Gallery Rome …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ideas and Objects, Ideas vs. Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 31, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ideas and Objects, Ideas vs. Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 31, 2010

Last week I described a few upcoming classes where my high school students were taking on the question of whether or not an idea can be considered a work of …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 24, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 24, 2010

Back in the fall, a good friend and colleague passed along Denis Dutton’s New York Times Op-Ed piece titled Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank? Deborah knew that the …

Art21 Extended Play

YOU DECIDE: Viewers Choose the 100th “Exclusive”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 23, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

YOU DECIDE: Viewers Choose the 100th “Exclusive”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 23, 2010

That’s right….we’re nearing our 100TH EPISODE of the Exclusive video series and are asking viewers — THAT’S YOU! — to decide which video (and artist) will have the distinction of …

Art21 Extended Play

Jeff Koons: Money & Value

by Wesley Miller | Mar 19, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Jeff Koons: Money & Value

by Wesley Miller | Mar 19, 2010

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Episode #098: Artist Jeff Koons discusses themes of money, desire, perfection, and moral responsibility. Filmed in his busy New York studio and surrounded …

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 2)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 15, 2010

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 2)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 15, 2010

(continued from Part 1) Down the stairs, Nathalie Djurberg’s sexually violent claymations are followed by Cady Noland’s sculptural image of Lee Harvey Oswald at his death. She has him riddled …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 8, 2010

In today’s roundup you’ll read about three kids in Switzerland, political defiance, Latin American photography, a map upstate, Opera House sails, the nature of light, and airborne balls: The Family, …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority

by Ben Street | Mar 8, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority

by Ben Street | Mar 8, 2010

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray …

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 1)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 2, 2010

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 1)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 2, 2010

This morning I previewed the hotly anticipated exhibition at the New Museum of Greek collector Dakis Joannou’s art holdings, impishly titled Skin Fruit and curated by Jeff Koons. I’ve been …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 1, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 1, 2010

With 19 bits and bites below, this week’s roundup is a whopper: Five Themes, the traveling survey exhibition of work by Season 5 artist William Kentridge, has landed at the …

Grand Canyon Journal 4: Critique Is Destruction as Joy

by Karthik Pandian | Feb 19, 2010

Grand Canyon Journal 4: Critique Is Destruction as Joy

by Karthik Pandian | Feb 19, 2010

[youtube:www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-vPbeJCsJM] CityCenter is the biggest thing to happen to art in Las Vegas since Steve Wynn put his finger through a Picasso. The mixed-use, residential, gambling, fine dining, clubbing, high-end …
Jeff Koons, "Girl with Dolphin and Monkey (The Whitney Museum of American Art 75th Anniversary Photography Portfolio), 2006. Courtesy Whitney Museum

Flash Points

The Puppy Wars

by Catherine Wagley | Feb 17, 2010

Flash Points

The Puppy Wars

by Catherine Wagley | Feb 17, 2010

The eerily small, closely watched world of New York art criticism experienced some infighting earlier this month, following the publication of February’s The Brooklyn Rail. “I think that there are …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 15, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 15, 2010

This President’s Day roundup begins with a hotly debated exhibition and ends with a divine duo: The New Museum has announced the details of their exhibition Skin Fruit: Selections from …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 8, 2010

Greek tragedy, cross dressing, cooking shows, needlework, rowdy teens, storytelling, nighttime walks, and a few mystery plays in this week’s roundup: Virtuoso Illusion: Cross Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 1, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 1, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about two anniversary exhibitions, 6,000 shapes upstate, masterworks in the Midwest, some road trip souvenirs, a whole lotta prints, and a sale you won’t …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 18, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 18, 2010

Sports, the human body and Gap t-shirts come together in this MLK day weekly roundup: Sports and masculinity are central themes of Hard Targets, an exhibition at Ohio State University’s …
Ida Appelbroog, "Group A #9", 1969. Ink on paper, 10 5/8" x 8 1/4". Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 11, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 11, 2010

This week Art21 artists depict nether regions, play with light and space, bundle and fuse old toys, mirror the dandy, reimagine rooftops, photograph electricity, and display cookie cutters by the …
Jeff Koons, "Puppy," steel, soil, plants, June 6 - September 5, 2000, at Rockefeller Center

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking At Los Angeles: Against The Deluge

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 30, 2009

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking At Los Angeles: Against The Deluge

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 30, 2009

Looking back before moving forward is such an endearing habit—like brushing your teeth before breakfast—that it’s hard to resent the sweeping, often grandiloquent judgments that accompany the end of each …