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...Foreseeing the vast, controlled spaces of postwar celebrities — workers including robots fabricating Jeff Koons’ sculptures; assembly lines of silkscreens and home movies flowing from Andy Warhol’s Factory...
...subverting sculpture into anti-monumentality — at a period of frantic aggrandising, often via industrial fabrication, by male sculptors on both sides of the Atlantic (Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons...
...I wonder, naively, if expectations of black artists today remain different, more constraining, from those of, say, Jeff Koons or Ed Ruscha....
...There are striking omissions: only one Liz, one Jackie....
...In 2018-19, the record set for a living male artist was £71m — Jeff Koons’ “Rabbit” — versus £9.5m for a woman, Jenny Saville’s nude “Propped”....
...Julian Schnabel — the laughable “Portrait of Bernard Picasso” (1988) in broken china — and Jeff Koons — masks and marble goddesses in the parodic painting “Antiquity (Uli)” (2011) — are rivals in bombastic...
...To show Bruce Nauman or Jeff Koons or other predecessors in post-minimalism, all of who are well represented in Hirst’s “Murderme” collection would have been over-obvious....
...Unlike other artists recently invited here (Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami), who installed gaudy horrors in the Hall of Mirrors, Kapoor declined to place work inside the palace....
...So does another truth about Koons....
...Closer to the present, I added in Jackie Wullschlager’s fearless and incisive demolition-job on contemporary art’s Jeff Koons. These are just the tip of a giant body of work: 30 years to be proud of....
...But Jackie’s final words are the coup de grâce: “He shows what happens when money and celebrity become yardsticks for culture. It is not a pretty sight.” Brava Jackie! Gary Goodman San Rafael, CA, US...
...“I love the gallery, the arena of representation,” says Jeff Koons. “It’s a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that’s taking place in the art gallery.”...
...The title is odd and the mix of works odder: Jeff Koons’ poly-chromed wood sheepdog “Bob-Tail”, placed between a pair of Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s shepherd paintings in the opening room, is laugh-out-loud...
...Add a dose of irony, and “Roses” leads straight to Jeff Koons....
...That chilly distillation of “the beauty of indifference” resounded through the 20th century, from Warhol to Koons....
...Other artists include Jeff Koons, Maurizio Cattelan, Isa Genzken, Thomas Schütte, Ugo Rondinone, Cathy Wilkes. southbankcentre.co.uk 020 7960 4200, from Tuesday to Sept 7...
...super-rich are again characterised by multimedia breadth, by rejection of hierarchies and by global scope: the Al-Thani of Qatar collect Roman antiquities, 18th-century French furniture and Cézanne, Hirst, Koons...
...Portrait Gallery’s £30,000 BP Portrait Prize and the Mall Galleries’ £25,000 Threadneedle Prize reward conservatism; the Royal Academy’s £25,000 Charles Wollaston Award favours international celebrity (Jeff Koons...
...pop artists to the core: Peter Blake and Allen Jones, whose semi-nude fibreglass dummies in bondage gear glued to tables and chairs are as kitsch and provocatively regressive as anything created by Jeff Koons...
...I loathe Koons, but as a statement of his role in conceptual sculpture’s history, Gagosian’s display is unassailable....
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s art critic...
...When he first beheld Jeff Koons at the Saatchi Gallery, “I thought this is so cynical, deadpan. I despaired of western culture. But when it sunk in that that was the point I thought, ‘Brilliant’....
...But Wollaston winners – David Hockney, Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, Yinka Shonibare, Gavin Turk, Marc Quinn – reflect current international art-making more vibrantly and comprehensively than the Turner’s recent...
...Such combinations have made fortunes for many of the world’s best-known contemporary artists, such as Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, and Richard Prince....
...greatest work is Francis Bacon’s “Study for a Figure at the Base of a Crucifixion” (1943-1944); he has a Warhol “Little Electric Chair” (“I f**king need one of those,” he said on buying it) and pieces by Jeff Koons...
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