In his recent show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea, Ashley Bickerton, a founding member of the 1980s “Neo-Geo” movement alongside Jeff Koons and Peter Halley, continued his exploration of the Western fantasy perspective of the Far East.  In his latest series of paintings and C-prints, Bickerton focused in on the debaucherous side of the [...]

In this week’s roundup, Martha Colburn animates war, Jeff Koons and William Wegman are in the dog days of summer, and much more. Martha Colburn presents the topic of war through animation.  The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Martha Colburn: Triumph of the Wild, a New Media Series installation by Colburn. The 10-minute animated film [...]

In this week’s roundup, Jeff Koons and Vija Celmins make room for artists, Mark Bradford inspires Chicago youth, and more. Jeff Koons‘s artwork is currently on view at ARTIST ROOMS (UK).  This exhibit brings together a works by Koons on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (UK) and offers visitors the chance [...]

13 March–19 June 2011

The Ludwig Forum Aachen will celebrate its 20th birthday with the exhibition opening of Hyper Real – Art and America around 1970. The exhibition, commissioned by Dr. Brigitte Franzen and Anna Sophia Schultz, features some 250 works by 100 international artists, such as Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Martha Rosler, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Jeff Wall, Garry Winogrand and Andy Warhol.

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
17 February–29 May 2011

This spring Magasin 3′s exhibition spaces will be filled with works by internationally acclaimed artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Fischli Weiss, Claire Fontaine, Jeff Koons, Sigalit Landau and Sherrie Levine—many of them being shown in Sweden for the first time.

You.  Got to have flash and flare or your name in lights, right?! Well, John Baldessari aims to make it happen.  He is looking for people who want their name in lights for 15 glittering seconds. Your Name in Lights reflects the changing cult of celebrity in modern society and recalls Andy Warhol’s prediction that [...]

When Michael Jackson died, an impromptu dance party took place just outside my window. A young woman pulled up in a car wearing her best 80s outfit; she turned on her hazards and took a votive candle and a stuffed monkey from the back seat . Resting those against a nearby lamppost, she left the [...]

Just in time for the holiday season, this week’s roundup brings to you plenty of news, including last-minute gift ideas such as President Obama’s children’s book homage to Maya Lin, John Baldessari’s Christmas vision-aire,  Paul McCarthy’s tide box, Jeff Koons’s body butter and more! President Barack Obama’s picture book, Of Thee I Sing, pays homage [...]

Gagosian Gallery presents a pop-up exhibition of catalogues, posters, prints and limited editions by gallery artists including John Currin, Ellen Gallagher, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Ric…

In this week’s roundup, William Kentridge receives the Kyoto Prize! Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy have childish things on exhibition and more! William Kentridge has been awarded the 2010 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy, becoming the first African recipient of Japan’s highest private award for global achievement.  The awards are [...]

The Fruitmarket Gallery
19 November 2010 – 23 January 2011

The Fruitmarket Gallery’s 2010 winter exhibition brings together major sculptures and projections by seven internationally significant artists from Britain and the United States in an exploration of what curator David Hopkins terms the ‘dark poetics’ of childhood.

Jeff Koons, Balloon Flower (Red), 1995–1999, on view in front of 7 World Trade Center in New York. High chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 114 x 132 x 108 in. Photos: 16 Miles

Christie’s international co-head of post-war and contemporary art Brett Gorvy notes that Jeff Koons has been very hands-on in preparing the [...]

In this week’s roundup: Kim Kardashian wears Barbara Kruger, Collier Schorr makes art about a German village, Jeff Koons works from popular archetypes, several artists are in group shows, and more. Barbara Kruger collaborated with W magazine to display Kim Kardashian dressed only in the art of Kruger, who worked on the front cover for [...]

la maison rouge, Paris
23 October 2010 – 16 January 2011

Investigations of a dog will feature more than 40 works from the collections of the five partner institutions. The exhibition draws its title from the short story by Franz Kafka, whose main character, a dog, questions the limits of his canine existence, or rather the sense of the community to which he belongs.

Jeff Koons, Fingers Between Legs, 1990. Oil inks silkscreened on canvas, 95.8 x 144.1 in. Photo: Luxembourg & Dayan
Works from Jeff Koons’s “Made in Heaven” series — paintings and sculptures that depict the artist with his then-lover, Italian porn star Cicciolina, in a variety of romantic situations — have returned to New York, where many [...]

After Jeff Koons in 2008 and Xavier Veilhan in 2009, this year Takashi Murakami takes over the Château de Versailles. It’s Takashi Murakami’s first major retrospective in France. VernissageTV correspondent Christophe Ecoffet met the artist in the garden of the palace for an exclusive interview. On display in the 15 rooms of the Château and [...]

Why art school? Why now? Why does it matter? “It wasn’t till I got to art school that I really understood how art can connect you through human history and the type of reservoir that it could be.” (Jeff Koons) “I wanted to cause trouble. And that caused me trouble in graduate school, because by [...]

The show at Jolie Laide on First Friday included the slick, decorative surfaces of Robert Horvath in the main space, in the alley the funky DIY installation by Tim Eads, and in the project space the mechanical torture rack of Heather Ramsdale. Horvath is the artist of the month at the gallery, and the other [...]

Jeff Koons’ forthcoming monograph traces his spectacular career from 1979 to the present. True to form, the book honors his overstated aesthetic with proportions that may dwarf some coffee tables. Limited to a pressing of 1,600 copies, it serves as…