"Why Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” Could Sell for up to $70 Million "
"But perhaps the most important work in the show was a three-foot-high stainless steel bunny—a work that’s key to understanding not just Koons, but the transformative power of the art object in our modern world."
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-jeff-koonss-rabbit-sell-70-million
I saw an exhibition of Jeff koons porn photographs at the tate which was fine but rubbish. However, despite the person warning people at the entrance, several middle class families were taking their quite young children in. Which felt wrong.
Agree. They should get rid of those interfering busybodies.
$ 70 million Zimbabwe would be about a million times more than what it's worth.
And whichever idiot paid $ 90 million for it deserves to have been parted from their money.
<<Koons is the kind of oddball that only the US could produce.>>
I met one from Winnipeg once.
<<Koons is the kind of oddball that only the US could produce.>>
I find comments like this somewhat pathetic, to be frank.
The nature of oddballs is that they are not representative. It also implies that the person making the claim has been everywhere else and has ascertained that the conditions necessary to produce a Koons do not pertain. Which itself implies that those conditions and the process are understood in some detail.
It's wank, in other words.
I appreciate that. let me note, however, that I don't really think the poster in question spoke at all with malice, and I tried to be a bit light in my response as well.
Why does the fable of "The Emperor's New Clothes" spring to mind?
I went to see an exhibition of some of Koons' photographic work at the tate.
A couple were taking their ten year old daughter into the room.
The custodian warned them about the adult content. Which if you know the photographs I'm talking about you will understand.
They felt it was fine.
That's my Jeff Koons story.
oddball
I'd be pleased with that description.
"The Emperor's New Clothes"
Naked attraction for some? This is an Emperor without a stitch on afaic.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/centra
l-sydney/art-gallery-of-nsw-presents-john-olsen-retrospective/news-story/525fa60bf7ad051c7be404a02f7c214f
I see now that I told this story just a few post, but almost two years, previously. Bloody threads back from the deads.