Jeff Koons

Every Person, Place, and Thing on Magna Carta Holy Grail: A Checklist

If while listening to Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail, you experienced an indescribable sensation that you were actually listening to an encrypted invitation to a very luxurious party with a super exclusive guest list and even more ridiculous gift wish list, you were right!!! We made note of every pe ... More >>

How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art

16 Acres

Antonio and Melanie: I Have A Question

This is how they looked every single time they were shown on the Golden Globes. It was so bizarre to have them angled in different directions, making them look like a Jeff Koons statue of themselves or maybe like a glamorous movie couple with whiplash.

'Porno Paintings' Piss Off Prude Parents

Jeff Koons, pricier porn art​Art inspired by Internet porn is very 2011, and the Lower East Side's Windows Gallery on Orchard Street is displaying just that, titled simply, "Porno Paintings." P.S.42 is right nearby and so the New York Post managed to get a few parents to complain. "I don't wan ... More >>

What Do You Do When You're At A Dinner Party...?

​ And they serve something so bizarre you'd wear it as a hat before you'd ever consider consuming it? I was just at a "Pop Art/Pop Up" dinner at the new Sanctuary Hotel, which is jazzily done up with all sorts of modern art references. ("That's art?" said a young person at the table, amazed ... More >>

Jeff Koons Is Not the Owner of All Balloon Dogs

​Recently we wrote about Jeff Koons' latest lawsuit, against a shop selling bookends shaped like balloon dogs (balloon dogs much like the balloon dogs that Koons, himself, has brought to the admiring public by way of various museums). We wondered: Can one ever really "own" the balloon dog? Or ... More >>

Jeff Koons Sues for Balloon Dog Dominance

Metropolitan Museum of Art​Jeff Koons, the artist you may know for his reproductions of "banal objects" (like balloon animals), is now suing two companies who have allegedly reproduced his reproductions of said everyday objects. Which brings up a somewhat existential question: If you reproduce ... More >>

HUMAN INTERRUPTED

Breaking down identity one layer at a time

Return of the Dick—Jeff Koons's Porn Pictures

The artist drips back into sight

Fourteen Works By Eva Hesse See the Light of Day

A Guide to Jeff Koons's "Skin Fruit" New Museum Sausage Party

This Week's Voice: Spring Arts Guide, Todd P's MtyMx, Joke Rap, She & Him, Shopping with Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos, Loser Lit, and More

Lizzi Bougatsos joins The Last Supper on Canal Street. Photo by David Wentworth.​In this week's Village Voice, we present our Spring Arts Guide: Angela Ashman goes shopping with Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos, James Hannaham talks to Baise-Moi director Virginie Despentes, Ben Davis on Grúp ... More >>

Anne Burrell Wants Back Into the Restaurant Biz; Nate Appleman Seeks Skilled Pizza Makers

​Pierre Schutz has been named the executive chef at the forthcoming Jean-Georges at the Mark hotel, set to open in March. He was formerly at the now-defunct Vong. [NY Times] Famed Gascon chef Thierry Marx will cook a special $350 meal at Le Bernardin on Feb. 20, as part of d'Artagnan's 25th a ... More >>

Weekend Special: Food Themes in the Art of Jeff Koons

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum​Sandwiches with mustard smiles and sliced olive eyes, from EasyFun-Ethereal. While we think of Jeff Koons (American artist, born 1955, York, Pennsylvania) mainly for his crass, sleek, kitschy style, and subject matter consisting of balloon animals, life-size porno ... More >>

Urs Fischer, Bowery Bad Boy

The Swiss-born artist gives New York some tongue as he takes over the New Museum

Pig

PUPPY LOVE

Jeff Koons discusses his two new books

WILD THING

Celebrating 30 years of the original 'punk ballerina'

Postcards From the Edge

Go postal at this benefit

Alejandro Almanza Pereda at Magnan Projects; Cindy Bernard's 'Silent Key'; Sam Messenger's 'Straightedge'

Alejandro Almanza Pereda at Magnan Projects

DESIGN OF A DECADE

When NYC’s artists were rock stars

GREEN EGGS AND KOONS

The Met’s rooftop gets a little crazier

Olafur Eliasson's Waterfalls and Statues of Limitations

A kinda grand tour of the city's new, giant public art. And speaking of dips, look in the East River.

Retro Man

The Cooper-Hewitt Celebrates Rococo

Polish up your Cupids and boar's heads!

Ashley Bickerton: Gone Native

Bali's remarkable hybridist

Spitzer and Girls! Girls! Girls! Again! Again! Again!

Spring Art Preview: Kerry James Marshall's Black Whole

Battling art's blind spot

Acid Reign

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Enjoy Every Scapula

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Paris Is Yearning

From porn stars to little Jesus—the fantastical work of French art duo Pierre and Gilles

Price on Request

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Artist

If there's no iconic image, does an artist's work risk becoming fuzzy in the mind?

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Dire Diary

The gushy artforum.com items read like the Us magazine of art criticism

The Emperor's New Paintings

Hirst is just another symptom of the hype, the hubris, and the money that have swamped the art scene lately

Post-Retailism

The pick of the museum store litter

What Are Words Worth?

Deflatable dolls critique consumer culture in bargain store

Five Points

Making a wish list: nagging qualms about the Biennial

Breathing Lessons

Koons at Sonnabend, straddling the cosmic divide between innocence and cunning

Horoscope

Is This It?

Stop Making Sense

Plus-Size Models

The Best-Dressed Cows

High Art in a Low Land

The 2000 Holland Festival

Jeffersonian Koons

The Taming of the ’80s

The Revenge of the Real