In Conversation
Jeff Koons
Martin Kemp
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 6–7:15pm
Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford, England
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
Jeff Koons will speak with Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of art history at the University of Oxford, England, about the inspiration behind the artist’s bold and provocative works, and what role they play in the world of contemporary art more broadly.
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Jeff Koons. Photo: David Fisher
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Jeff Koons
Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 5:30pm
New York Institute of Technology
www.americansforthearts.org
Jeff Koons will participate in the David Rockefeller Lecture Series. As a successful artist who has partnered with businesses, Jeff Koons sits at the intersection between the two industries. He will speak about his past collaborations and how, by navigating the space between business and the arts, he has encouraged the integration of the arts in different spaces. To attend the event, purchase tickets at secture.artusa.org.
Photo: Branislav Jankic
Anniversary Release
Jeff Koons
Puppy (Vase)
Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 5–7pm
Gagosian Shop, New York
www.gagosian.com/shop
Gagosian Shop will unveil one hundred editions of Jeff Koons’s Puppy (Vase) (1998), available for sale. Koons will be in attendance to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of one of his most popular early editions. Combining Koons’s interest in domestic objects, classical beauty, and childlike joy, Puppy (Vase) is a glazed porcelain vase in the shape of a small white Highland terrier, its wiry hair expertly articulated. The editions were produced in 1998, only a few years after the completion of Puppy (1992), Koons’s monumental topiary sculpture that is permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. To attend the free event, RSVP to puppyvase@gagosian.com.
Puppy (Vase) is also available at the Gagosian Shop and on Artsy.
Jeff Koons, Puppy (Vase), 1998 © Jeff Koons
Public Installation
Jeff Koons
December 2017–January 2019
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org
Jeff Koons’s monumental Balloon Monkey (Orange) (2006–13) is on view in the Los Angeles Times Central Court through January 2019. Koons’s meticulous reproduction of the twisted balloon shape in mirror-polished stainless steel plays with and confounds our natural material association of the pliable, air-filled form. Through these transformations and enlargements of scale, Koons makes familiar objects become alternately strange, humorous, and surreal.
Jeff Koons, Balloon Monkey (Orange), 2006–13 © Jeff Koons
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