The {Art} Life: Jeff Koons at The Whitney Museum
The Fromm family has been enjoying our weekend in the city! Yesterday we visited the Whitney Museum, Cipriani, did some window shopping, and took a rickshaw ride! Here’s a little bit about the Jeff Koons exhibit at The Whitney – it’s a must see!
Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity and the global market.
Comprising almost 150 objects dating from 1978 to the present, this exhibition will be the most comprehensive ever devoted to the artist’s groundbreaking oeuvre. By reconstituting all of his most iconic works and significant series in a chronological narrative, the retrospective will allow visitors to understand Koons’s remarkably diverse output as a multifaceted whole.