Jeff Koons Loses Second French Plagiarism Case
The American artist Jeff Koons has been found guilty of copying an idea from an advertisement used by the French clothing chain Naf Naf.
26 October 2018
Jeff Koons Ashmolean Exhibition Announced For February 2019
Jeff Koons (b. 1955) will have a major exhibition to be held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in spring 2019.
8 October 2018
Jeff Koons Cracked Egg Blue Loses Its Lustre At Christie’s
Jeff Koons Cracked Egg (Blue) a large two-part stainless steel sculpture from the Celebration Series, which began with Balloon Dog in 1994, is the first of five versions, each one rendered in a vivid colour.
27 September 2018
Jeff Koons Sued For Appropriated Naf Naf Image Fait d’Hiver
Franck Davidovici, the creative director of the clothing brand Naf Naf who is embroiled in a long-running dispute with the artist Jeff Koons has had his day in a Paris court.
24 May 2018
Blue Chip Bling Art Features In New Las Vegas Gambling Palace
High value bluechip contemporary art displayed at alternative venues is usually something that excites us here at Artlyst; however,
1 May 2018
Gagosian Sued Over Jeff Koons Balloon Venus Production Delay
The film producer Joel Silver is suing the Gagosian gallery over the failure to deliver a balloon Venus sculpture.
Artlyst Chooses Ten Of The Best From Frieze London 2017
Frieze is here again, and we’ve been crossing the days off since summer! Not only is this the buzziest week of the London autumn art calendar but it’s a great time to discover new artists, watch performances by young talent and films by some of the most exciting experimental filmmakers in the world
10 March 2017
Jeff Koons And Pompidou Center Lose Plagiarism Lawsuit In France
Jeff Koons and the Pompidou Center have been found guilty of plagiarism in a legal dispute over the artist’s work Naked (1988) The work of art was part of Koons’s Banality series
3 October 2016
Jeff Koons
Mirrors from the very beginning have played an essential role in almost all of Jeff Koons’s work. They appear in the first inflatables of 1979, in which glass flowers and other ‘trite’ objects picked up in discount stores on 14th Street in New York were placed on mirrored platforms and backdrops. Since, many of his […]
Jeff Koons Named As Artist At Center Of David Zwirner Lawsuit
Jeff Koons has turned out to be the “world-renowned artist” at the centre of a highly publicised lawsuit between the London/New York Contemporary Art dealer David Zwirner and the Old Master dealer Fabrizio Moretti, who owns galleries in Florence, London, and New York. The multimillion-dollar suit revolves around the 2013 sculpture entitled Gazing Ball (Centaur and Lapith Maiden). The original filing claimed $2 million in damages, which […]
Exaggerated Narratives and Performativity Feature In Luxembourg Dayan’s New Summer Show
“The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved – as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem – must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.” – Stanley Tucci A new exhibition in two acts, ‘MELODRAMA’ is taking place between Luxembourg & Dayan’s London and […]
Jeff Koons: Showing The Love For Irony And Pseudo Philosophical Claptrap
The loads of people who know me as a boring old traditionalist (Turner Prize?! Yah boo hiss!) are always surprised when I say I actually love Jeff Koons. I really do, and enjoyed his new show, cleverly titled Now! at Damien Hirst’s gorgeously lovely wonderful awesome Newport Street Gallery. The reason being is that he […]
20 May 2016
Jeff Koons – The Art Of Not Quite Now By Edward Lucie-Smith
The Jeff Koons exhibition, entitled with the single word ‘NOW’, is the latest exhibition to be presented in Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery, a series of beautiful spaces designed by architects Caruso St John. There is, in fact no nicer space for showing contemporary art now available in London. It knocks spots off (no pun intended) […]
Jeff Koons Now Exhibition Opens At Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery
Newport Street Gallery has unveiled ‘Now’, a solo exhibition of work by US artist Jeff Koons (b.1955), which opens to the public today, Wednesday 18th May 2016. To mark the opening of the exhibition, Newport Street Gallery will launch its new ‘Summer Lates’ opening hours, which will see the gallery remaining open until 10pm every Saturday […]
Jeff Koons Back In Court: Plagiarism Or Image Sampling?
The American artist Jeff Koons is facing yet another lawsuit over plagiarism. Koons, who is one of the worlds most successful artists, with work selling for tens of millions, is no stranger to court battles. This time photographer, Mitchel Gray has stated in his complaint, filed in a Manhattan federal court, that Koons reproduced his photo, […]
The Broad: Los Angeles’ Electrifying Private Contemporary Art Museum
Los Angeles’ latest museum of Contemporary art, The Broad, is already a victim of its own success with limited access due to overbooking and queues stretching for an hour, to see some of the attractions, like the Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. Photo: Jeff Koons room Broad Museum Founded by […]
Jeff Koons Appropriates Great Masters While We Straighten Our Ties
A brand new series of paintings by the Post Pop artist Jeff Koons entitled Gazing Ball is currently on show in New York. In this series, Koons has appropriated images from artists of the past, such as Titian, El Greco, Courbet, and Manet, among others. The works deal with the power of artistic gesture. Each work has […]
Jeff Koons: Anti-Consumerist Art Or Its Own Subject Matter?
In an interview with Austrian daily Der Standard, the most expensive living American artist spoke about his relationship to the art market. Jeff Koons did so after unveiling of his Balloon Venus (Orange) (2008-12) statue at the city’s Natural History museum. In a twist – that could be seen as quite an interesting turn in […]
Why Some Artists Die Poor And Others Die Rich Like Damien Hirst
OK, so admittedly Damien Hirst is still very much with us… But what can you say about an artist’s life’s work when they have died penniless and relatively unknown? The best way to answer is to reverse the question: why does it matter a damn that a collective of individuals have over a certain period encountered an […]
Art Forgery: Overinflated Prices And The Buffoonery Of Collectors
Given the range of names appearing in Artlyst’s forged artists countdown, you would be forgiven for thinking that the measure of an artist who has finally ‘made it’ is one who has been copied, and copied by stealth and deceit for monetary gain. For the driving influence behind why forgeries are made exists outside the […]
Jeff Koons And The Ten Million Pound Easter Egg
Religious or not, we are all familiar with the spirit of giving, new life and general goodwill associated with decorating and eating eggs at Easter. The practice in any case dates back to ancient times, Christianity only taking it up with later examples found from Mesopotamia; even later it was further established as a religious […]
Jeff Koons’ Louvre Exhibition Has Been Axed
Jeff Koons’ recent time in Paris has certainly had its ups and downs. This January, the artist was due to show a selection of large-scale sculptures in the Louvre’s 19th-century galleries, to run alongside his current retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, which runs until April 27. But now it has been confirmed that the show […]
29 January 2015
Ed Paschke: Visionary From Chicago – The Original Pop Art Provocateur
The Ashmolean Museum presents Ed Paschke: Visionary from Chicago, 1968–2004. The exhibition is the third in the museum’s series of shows of post-war and contemporary art presented in collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation (USA), with an additional four works that have been lent by the artist Jeff Koons. The exhibition is also the third […]
Artists Damien Hirst And Takashi Murakami Create Original Works For UNICEF
Renowned artists including Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richard Serra and Shirin Neshat have donated works through the FC Barcelona Foundation to Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) and UNICEF. The ‘1 in 11’ campaign extends educational opportunities to marginalised children in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal, with the goal of expanding to more countries. Hirst, […]
Is Image Appropriation Just Plagiarism Of Intellectual Property
Jeff Koons is facing a second lawsuit over alleged plagiarism of intellectual property in two weeks; first regarding the sculpture ‘Naked’ supposedly copying the photography of Jean-François Bauret, and now the sculpture ‘Fait d’Hiver’, borrowing from a French clothing advert of 1985 by Franck Davidovici. They form part of his 1988 ‘Banality’ series, of which […]
Versailles Sculptures Damaged In Malicious Act Of Vandalism
The plinths of two marble sculptures displayed in the Grand Trianon park at Versailles have been attacked and severely damaged by a suspected “malicious act,” AFP reports. The attack on the works was discovered by Versailles staff last Wednesday. The two works of art, which date from the late 17th century to early 18th century, […]
Jeff Koons Sued In Second Plagiarism Lawsuit In A Month
The estate of the well known French photographer Jean-François Bauret is suing the American artist Jeff Koons for copying one of his best known images, for the 1988 sculpture titled Naked. The sculpture created in porcelain, is part of Koons’ “Banality” series and would have been on display in his current retrospective, at the Centre […]
Anish Kapoor Solo Exhibition At Versailles In 2015
The London-based artist Anish Kapoor follows in the footsteps of Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami with a new exhibition of work due to open next year at the Palace of Versailles outside of Paris. The director of the 17th-century château, Catherine Pégard, told The International New York Times that the show will open next June […]
Paris Tableau Old Masters Fair Opens In Paris
The old master trade will be gathering for Paris Tableau, the only exclusively Old Master fair in the world, which was launched three years ago with an exhibition of Old Masters collected by the contemporary artist Jeff Koons. This year, British dealers will be ,unveiling a number of rarities and recent discoveries, which will make […]
Damien Hirst In Orkney Jeff Koons In Norwich: Culture Moves To The Hinterlands
In an unprecedented programme bringing cutting edge art to the masses the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate have announced their schedule for the seventh year of ARTIST ROOMS On Tour. New exhibitions will go on show at 17 venues across the UK in 2015 and a further seven exhibitions already open will continue to […]
Instagram Publicity Hunter Vandalises Koons Retrospective
First Paul McCarthy’s ‘Tree’ Sculpture was vandalised in paris; and now, it seems it is the turn of another controversial artist; Jeff Koons. The artist’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York was targeted for vandalism shortly after midnight yesterday, this was reported in ARTnews. The vandal used spray-paint to daub […]
Unseen Pablo Picasso Self-Portrait In London Exhibition
A self-portrait by Pablo Picasso that was created in 1901, and has not previously been exhibited in public before, will go on display in central London this week. The exhibition will include works by Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and great British painter Francis Bacon. The self-portrait by Picasso depicts the Spanish artist and sculptor at […]