We should see some sunshine by Saturday, so here’s your free, sad art fair alternative: a recently updated, self-guided walking tour of public art/monumnets/etc of LES, including Jeff Koons’ spin on Lucky Cheng’s genital balloonery. Even better, here are some maps of David Byrne’s winsome bike racks and NYC bike lanes. Read more »
The New Museum is packed tight with coveted art bling today. Rummaging through Dakis Joannou’s voluminous, much-talked-about private collection, guest curator Jeff Koons has turned up some cool stuff. The phrase “museum ethics” hasn’t really crossed my mind, but “fruit salad” has. Read more »
ArtInfo’s round up of the world’s wealthiest artists names Damien Hirst as “likely the world’s richest,” ca-ching-ing up there on par with the collector monarchy with a bounty of $338,000,000. Also: Murakami, Koons, Schnabel, Kapoor and Johns. Read more »
Artist/prankster William Powhida and the Brooklyn Rail team up to bring you the “imaginary protest” for the New Museum’s Koons-curated Imaginary Museum exhibit series. A limited edition of 666, the “Howdy Koonsy” tee is a great way to support ye local “critical perspectives” rag and stir up shit at the same time. Obnoxioulicious! Previous Powhida/Rail colab furnished this mega-comic of art bloggers’ reactions to the ethics of exhibiting a museum trustee’s personal collection. |hyperallergic|
 
Recently announced guest curator/balloon maker Jeff Koons presents New Museum’s “Skin Fruit” — 100 works by 50 artists, with a single Koons weaseled in. Contemporary superstars like Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince and Franz West will take part, alongside younger artists and others’ newly updated works. Read more »
For those who are actually interested in becoming Jeff Koons’ studio elf, here’s what fun to expect: a meticulous tedium of organizing and labeling things like “extra hippos + dog pools,” adoringly tiding-up aluminum, and “painstakingly applying dots” to stuff, months on end, with Koons on flaw-watch from across the room. OCD peeps, holla? |ArtInfo|
Because no way he can paint the whole thing himself, Jeff Koons is looking for a few “realistic painters” for full time work at his Chelsea studio, which might resemble toiling in a sweatshop that makes mamal-shaped piñatas for giants. If you just never mind those psychedelic collage nightmares and coughing up metallic phlegm, you’re so going to the top, kid! |NYFA|
Last year, the BMW Art Cars dipped into corny capitalist ploy territory, slanting away from its 1970s roots when Calder, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg created works of art and not fancy commercial fodder, and just now Jeff Koons has been selected to bastardize this year’s arty auto. Read more »
If you’ve ever wanted to stand on Andy Warhol’s soap box or paper your walls with someone else’s party photos, tomorrow’s your chance at Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art sale. In addition to one of Warhol’s wooden Brillo boxes, valued up to $900k, the smaller-than-normal auction features Dash Snow’s “Polaroid Wall,” estimated at the posthumous price of $40k to $60k. Also up for a bid is Jeff Koons’ $200k ice bucket, Banksy’s “Insane Clown” painting, Olafur Eliasson lightbox as wells as some pictures of nearly nothing by Felix Gonzalez Torres. Read more »
News reports on the divorce of former Victoria’s Secret model Stephanie Seymour and media mogul Peter Brant not only reveal their lavish lifestyle, but also art collection. Each year, Brant sinks between $75,000 and $100,000 into maintaining the enormous Jeff Koons “Puppy” sculpture planted in Greenwich home’s backyard horse corral. It takes ten men working for twelve days each spring to groom the 43-foot tall topiary’s stainless steel skeleton, 25 tons of soil, internal irrigation system and more than 70,000 flowering plants, according to T Magazine. |Connecticut Post|
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