Jeff Koons

Art, commerce and the 1980s: how the decade became a turning point for mass media

The 1980s: the decade of decadence, power shoulders, big hair, big bucks and Generation X. As the biggest ad agencies of the era – among them Saatchi & Saatchi, the WPP group – ate up the smaller fish becoming huge...

Zeppelin riffs & myths: Jeff Koons’ eye-popping homage to his childhood heroes

21 years, 21 Guest Editors: from Dieter Rams to Jeff Koons, via Zaha Hadid and Hedi Slimane

A hole in one: celebrating 21 years of life-enhancing stuff

This month marks Wallpaper’s coming of age: our 21st anniversary. It’s also my tenth year as editor-in-chief, having switched from being creative director in April 2007. I must confess that my coming of age came a number of years earlier...

Back to the future: Cao Fei brings the BMW Art Car into the digital age

A time-travelling monk leaves a dramatic mountainous setting in what appears to be ancient China. He sets off by foot, walking through time toward a nameless megacity. With a composed expression and dressed in traditional costume, we see him pass...

Different strokes: Louis Vuitton and Jeff Koons put a new frame on Old Masters

In February, Louis Vuitton presented its A/W 2017 collection in the Louvre’s breathtaking Cour Marly, a space which houses sculptures from the 17th and 18th century, originally commissioned for the gardens of Louis XIV’s Château de Marly countryside home. As...

Ready-made success: Jeff Koons reflects at Almine Rech Gallery, London

Dubbed the ’first celebrity artist’ and having already seen a full retrospective at New York’s Whitney Museum, one wonders what commodity-broker-turned-art pioneer Jeff Koons has left to achieve. The goal now, in the artist’s own surprising words, is ’to reach...

A Times Square installation from the heart

If New Yorkers ‘love’ Times Square it’s well-concealed, and more akin to the love/hate theme of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Anyone who has fought through umbrella-wielding masses as part of their daily commute (dodging ‘naked’ cowboys and shaggy Sesame Street characters)...

Ubiquitous inflatables: Jeff Koons reveals a new retrospective at the Guggenheim Bilbao

Scott Rothkopf, curator of the Whitney museum and co-curator of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective at the Guggenheim Bilbao, says he remembers an ’embarrassing’ photo of himself in shorts and sandals taken years ago in front of Puppy, Koons’ giant floral...

Light shows and pink feathers: how Art Basel 2015 took over Hong Kong

Art Basel swept into Hong Kong this week sparking a creativity frenzy that spread well beyond the 233 galleries showing in the city’s monolithic convention centre as everyone from up-and-coming young local designers to international galleries and fashion designers jumped...

Phillips auction house decamps to a new Berkeley Square base designed by Aukett Swanke

The arrival of the Phillips auction house at 30 Berkeley Square confirms Mayfair’s emergence as the art market’s prime pitch. And with Caruso St John currently working up plans for Larry Gagosian’s mammoth new gallery round the corner on Grosvenor...

Jeff Koons’ Technicolor takeover of the Whitney Museum

Giddiness is rarely associated with Brutalist architecture, but it might well be the sensation by which the Whitney Museum’s Marcel Breuer-designed home is remembered - thanks to Jeff Koons. The former Wallpaper* guest editor and artist’s vast retrospective, which opens...