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...His semi-abstract drawings are now considered works of art in their own right and have been exhibited in London’s V&A Museum....
...They might respond: How many times do institutions like MoMA, The Smithsonian or the V&A have to spotlight gaming before the medium is taken seriously?...
...And which is the home of the developer of 2013’s best-selling video game, Grand Theft Auto V? The answer is not London....
...If Mr Koons makes so much, Mr Hirst must make so much more. Such a simplistic view helps explain valuations so high that the money would build several hospitals....
...“It was playful, imaginative, inviting, fun and at the same time functional,” says Victoria Broackes, head of the London Design Festival at the V&A....
...Susie Rushton, deputy editor of Porter magazine, is a fan of dressing all in white on court....
...Russians prefer to buy in London or New York, and to buy a glamorous Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons or Rudolf Stingel, validated by the Sotheby’s or Gagosian Gallery stamp of value....
...And he loves this indifference to hardcore classicism, reckons it a signal characteristic of British art, a V-sign stuck in the face of academic draftsmanship....
...An exhibition with the same title is at the V&A from October 18 ………………………………………....
...directed by Michelangelo Pistoletto, whose Mediterranean mirror table “Love Difference” will be the centre piece, will include a range of Illy coffee cups designed by artists including Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons...
...His installations make Jeff Koons looks understated but are based upon a true love of flowers. http://portfolio.prestonbailey.com/ 212.691.6777...
...In the 1860s, Leighton, Rossetti and Whistler were reckoned as far apart as, say, David Hockney and Jeff Koons are today. Leighton was a neo-classicist....
...In the 1560s, Albrecht V of Bavaria created his celebrated Kunstkammer to flaunt his collection and lord it over other European princes....
...If you total up auction sales in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Japan over the past year, the figure outstrips the US for the first time – €130m v €123m....
...The journey begins in a small foyer lit by the soft white glow of Dan Flavin’s “Monument for V. Tatlin 22” (1964)....
...Where MoMA and the Fondation Maeght’s histories of the genre celebrated America and France as cradles of modernism, the V&A focuses on pop, minimalism, art as object in a consumer age, the collapse of media...
...Rauschenberg’s “Trophy V (for Jasper Johns)” evokes the artist by items – map, window frame, ruler – connected with him....
...Jeff Koons, “Hanging Heart” 17. Damien Hirst claimed to have sold “For the Love of God” in August 18. Jimi Hendrix 19. Carlos Acosta, the Arabesque 20....
...usually American – as varied as Barbara Kruger (“the absolute artist of the age of mechanical reproduction in its late capitalist phase”), Matthew Barney (“the Picasso of our time, or the Leonardo”), Jeff Koons...
...Charlotte Mullins is editor of the V&A Magazine....
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