Jeff Koons

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Iona on Top (Rosa Background) (detail), 1990

Estimate 2,000,000 - 3,000,000. Contemporary Art Day auction at Sotheby's New York, Nov 12 2009.

Jeff Koons

Excerpt from interview with Jeff Koons by Anthony Barzilay Freund in Sotheby's at Auction, Nov 2009.

"Everything's in play, but maybe not everything comes together in some methaphysical way that maintains interest and can really function as a work of art."

"I don't think we care about objets and we really don't care about images but we care aboput people."

"I don't have any regrest. Artistically I take what I do as a very moral activity and I take the act of making art as something that connects me to others and that allows my own life experience to be more intense."

"In one way it is a very simple process. The only thing you can do if you want to make a work of art is to trust yourself and follow your interests. But then it becomes very metaphysical, time begins to shift and connections are made. I never know exactly where I come up with something or exactly why. I can make certain references: yes, I remember this day seeing this object or yes, I was curious about that, but it becomes very strange and unexplainable about how you end up where you do."

GAP / Whitney Museum of American Art

Art in the Park. Jim Shi. The Daily. 05.29.08.
excerpted text:

"The 13 tees designed by the likes of Kiki Smith, Marilyn Minter, Cai Guo-Qiang, Kenny Scharf and Glenn Ligon (plus Close and Koons) will be displayed in Bryant Park from today through June 4. Displayed with biographies, they will promote Gap Inc.'s ever-increasing affiliation with the arts through its Gap and Banana Republic brands while encouraging visitors to 'experience works of art among the trees.'"

Gap / Whitney Museum of American Art

Gap Artist Edition T-Shirts. Erin Weinger. Los Angeles Times. 05.11.08.
excerpted text:

"A design by Chuck Close features the artist's 2002 black-and-white rendering of composer Philip Glass. Others created new work for their T-shirt canvases. Neo-Geo artist Ashley Bickerton's square T-shirt sketch is in colors reminiscent of Skittles. Jeff Koons used a halftone printing pattern to make a deer's head. Rirkrit Tiravanija's ominous design reads, "The days of this society are numbered" in plain orange lettering." (Erin Weinger)

Chanel / Fendi + Art

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Fashion Scoops / Hammer Time. WWD. 05.08.08. 

excerpted text: 

"A new frontier has broken out in the luxury handbag wars — and it's all for a good cause. Rare and collectible Fendi and Chanel purses will be among items auctioned off by Sharon Stone May 22 at the amfAR gala during the Cannes Film Festival. Silvia Venturini Fendi really went to town, creating a plain white canvas baguette and inviting 20 art world stars to customize them in aid of various charities. Participants include Jeff Koons, Kendell Geers, Francesco Vezzoli, Subodh Gupta, Sylvie Fleury and Tom Sachs, who painted his black, signed it and noted, "Please Display Other Side." Meanwhile, at Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld went full-throttle luxury, creating a lustrous alligator style with a double-C clasp pavéd in 334 diamonds."

Gap / Whitney Museum of American Art

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Gap Takes and Art-T Approach. By Marcy Medina. WWD. 05.02.08. 

excerpted text: 

"On May 13, the retailer will roll out its latest collaborative effort, Artist Editions T-Shirts, a limited edition collection of cotton Ts designed by contemporary artists Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, Kiki Smith, Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger, Ashley Bickerton, Kenny Scharf, Glenn Ligon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kerry James Marshall, Hanna Liden and Sarah Sze." (Marcy Medina)

"Gap partnered with the Whitney Museum of American Art and the nonprofit Art Production Fund to create the collection with the 13 past Whitney Biennial participants." (Marcy Medina)

"This continues to reinforce our desire to be culturally relevant." (Marka Hansen, Gap Brand North America President)

GAP / Whitney Museum of American Art

Art Tees.Colette Newsletter.www.colette.fr.04.25.08.

excerpted text:

"GAP and Whitney Museum of American Art present Gap Artist Edition, a serie of limited edition t-shirts, sold exclusively in France at colette, starting next May 23rd. These unique pieces are printed with a selection of artworks presented in previous Whitney Biennales. Some of the most powerful artists in contemporary arts are represented: Jeff Koons, Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Marilyn Minter, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Kenny Scharf et Kerry James Marshall."

Tom Ford on Jeff Koons.

Chuck Close. Interview by Charlie Rose. 


Kiki Smith. By Art:21. 

Barbara Kruger. By Art:21. 

Kenny Scharf. 

Kerry James Marshall. By Art: 21.