Tag: Jeff Koons

En plein air: art in the time of pandemic

With museums and galleries shut due to the pandemic, art had to be rethought. Online shows have their place but can’t compete with seeing the real thing. With that in mind, here is a roundup of New York’s best outdoor…
Rachel Howard – interview: ‘I like to contradict myself, trip myself up’

The artist talks about her interest in madness and the edge of things and the five large-scale paintings in her show l’Appel du Vide, which opens this month at Blain Southern in New York
Michael Landy – interview: ‘The projects no longer exist, but they are mapped on to the Australian psyche’

The sociologically inclined Landy is creating an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Kaldor Public Art Projects. He discusses the challenges of reviving archival ghosts, his enduring fascination with artistic failures, and Kaldor’s doggedness in realising his ambitious scheme
Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’

Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…
Jeff Koons

From a balloon bunny to a vast, glossy pink Venus of Willendorf, there is everything we would expect from Koons at his latest exhibition at the Ashmolean – but there is also a sense that he has run out of…
Jeff Koons: Now

For the second exhibition at his gallery in Vauxhall, Damien Hirst presents more than 30 works by Koons, some of which have never before been shown in the UK
Mark Soo interview: ‘The object of observation changes by being observed’

Multimedia artist Mark Soo tells A Will Brown about his interest in the interconnection of elements, how a work of art changes when a passerby looks at it, and how Detroit techno music led him to 19th-century paddlewheel steamships
Ralph Rugoff: interview

The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture Hayward Gallery, London 17 June – 7 September 2014
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 27 June – 19 October 2014
Luke Gottelier and Max Lamb

Kate MacGarry, London 1-31 May 2014