Now, Paul McCarthy is just rubbing it in. Yes, there is a giant balloon dog sitting on Randall’s Island. But it is not Jeff Koons. It is a Paul McCarthy. Like that poop.
If you remember, we had quite the chortle about Jeff Koons grandiose flight of delusion back when he sent cease and desist letters to San Francisco’s Park Life store/gallery for selling balloon animal-shaped bookends because invented balloon animal-shaped art, clearly. The saga got saggy quick, when Koons was zinged by copyright lawyers and clowns alike, and gave up, and then got zinged by Colbert some more. This week, New York Magazine is all like “Jeff Koons Is the Most Successful American Artist Since Warhol. So What’s the Art World Got Against Him?”
Well.
Take this, you opulent bastard! Errrybody thinks — or “thinks,” ironic trolly wink-wink? — that McCarthyinflatable sculpture is Jeff Koons and it is not Jeff Koons. Wait. I’m not sure who is wining here anymore. Damn it. YOU MEME YOU. STOP IT. STOP EVERYTHING. Here’s an excellent related GIF by Man Bartlett: Rich Man’s Rave.I’m going to nap under my office desk.
It's 2014 and mocking Jeff Koons is just not fun anymore. Jeff Koons' stupid balloon dogs, Damien Hirst's stupid dots, Marina Abramović's stupid eye contact -- for those of us tap-dancing on the cracking crust between "art" and "mainstream culture" coverage, simplifying our half-felt blow-offs into blog posts is not worth perpetuating Koonsbramohirst's omnipresence, not…
The much-anticipated Jeff Koons retrospective isn't coming to MoCA as planned for this coming January. Instead, the retrospective will debut at the Whitney in New York in June 2014, then travel to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in October 2014. It's not entirely cancelled -- a MOCA rep tried to quell the ripple…
Today is the opening of not one, but two of three Paul McCarthy exhibitions that will run throughout New York City this Spring. The three related exhibitions will be scattered throughout the city and accompanied by an outdoor sculpture presentation. Well, we're not complaining. Why can't it always be "Paul McCarthy Season?" Today, at…
