By GalleristNY 6/20/12 11:15am

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Beyeler Foundation in May. (Courtesy Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

The 15 Best Photos of Jeff Koons Posing by His Artworks: a Celebration

Yesterday, Observer Culture Editor Sarah Douglas reported from a talk that Jeff Koons gave about his own work last week at Basel’s Beyeler Foundation. Among his topics: biology, breasts, testicles. As many have noted, Mr. Koons is a remarkably eloquent, if bizarre, interpreter of his work. What has been less frequently addressed is his skill at posing with his sculptures. Perhaps only Salvador Dalí—whom Mr. Koons collects—can be considered a true rival in the expressive intensity of his poses. Below, a brief look at some of Mr. Koons’s best moments. Read More

By Sarah Douglas 6/19/12 7:48pm

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Private Parts: At Basel’s Beyeler Foundation, Jeff Koons Unveils, Explains New Work

Going by Adam Davidson’s logic in his recent New York Times Magazine article—the art market is “a proxy for the fate of the superrich themselves”—fans of the 1 percent will be thrilled to hear that sales were full speed ahead at least week’s Art Basel fair, despite Greece and Spain and myriad other global economic woes. One afternoon, an artist turned up outside the convention center with an unsanctioned artwork—a giant mousetrap poised to snap on a bunch of giant euros—and was swiftly removed by a bunch of guards, Masque of the Red Death-ishly. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 5/07/12 11:27am

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(Photos by Andrew Russeth)

Koons ‘Puppy’ Blooms at Brant Estate

In Phaidon’s latest hulking art tome, Defining Contemporary Art, Bice Curiger, the curator of the 2011 Venice Biennale, recalls seeing Jeff Koons’s Puppy sculpture for the first time, in Arolsen, Germany, where it was installed during the run of Documenta 9, in 1992. (That show’s curator had famously made a point of not inviting the decadent American.) Read More

By Andrew Russeth 5/01/12 3:33pm

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Mr. Koons. (Courtesy Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

Report: Jeff Koons Retrospective in the Works From Whitney, Pompidou and MOCA L.A.

At the end of his article on Centre Pompidou President Alain Seban’s plans to expand into modest temporary locations in Brazil, Russia, India and China, The Art Newspaper‘s Gareth Harris drops this epic little bit of news: “…a Jeff Koons retrospective organised with New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is due to open at the Centre Pompidou in 2014.” Read More

By Andrew Russeth 3/28/12 9:00am

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The MCA Sydney will soon be home to nude gallery tours. (Photo by Antonia Hayes/Flickr)

Morning Links: Nude Gallery Tour Edition

Jori Finkel checks in with LACMA director Michael Govan about news that the Friends of the High Line may try to build Jeff Koons’s estimated $25 million Train sculpture in New York, which he had hoped to bring to his Los Angeles museum. “Would trustees and donors be interested in two trains? … On one level, it would be kind of cool to have them coast to coast, and it could be less expensive,” Mr. Govan told Ms. Finkel. “But then there’s the issue of identity: Would you have two Eiffel Towers?” [LAT]

On the late Hilton Kramer’s stint at The Times. [NYT]

From yesterday, Michael H. Miller’s obituary for Kramer. [GalleristNY] Read More

By Rozalia Jovanovic 3/27/12 5:20pm

Image by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Jeff Koons. Courtesy of The New York Times.

Jeff Koons ‘Train’ Sculpture May Bring Bells and Whistles to High Line

The High Line hasn’t seen a running train since 1980, when the last one pulled three carloads of frozen turkeys. But the train rails between Gansevoort and West 34th Streets on the west side of Manhattan, which opened as a public park in 2009, may soon be host once again to a locomotive. But this train, a sculpture by artist Jeff Koons, will dangle vertically over the park. The New York Times reports that Mr. Koons’s Train, a life-size model of a 1943 Baldwin 2900 steam locomotive is estimated to cost $25 million to create and install, according to one feasibility study. Read More

By Dan Duray 12/13/11 6:50pm

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Doreen Remen, Jeff Koons, Michel Bernardaud, Yvonne Force Villareal and Casey Fremont.

Forget It, Jeff, It's China Town

Art fans, plate fans and just a socialite or two hit the Bernardaud store last night for a signing of a special-edition plate designed by Jeff Koons. The second in a series that debuted with Rudolf Stingel, Mr. Koons’ plates drew an impressive crowd that dutifully formed a line around the store as they waited to reach a quick-depleting stack of plates to be signed by the artist, who sat at a table in the middle of the room. Champagne was distributed, for the wait. Read More