H&M and Jeff Koons Collaborate on a Handbag
Among the images inscribed on Jeff Koons’s consciousness is a black-and-white photograph of the legendary art dealer Leo Castelli presenting a bronze Jasper Johns flag to President John F. Kennedy. For Mr. Koons, the moment was a watershed. “People from film, music and other areas of the arts have always participated in the popular culture,” he said. “But before that time, the fine arts had been neglected.”
Mr. Koons, now 59, has in fact dedicated much of his three-decade career to making sure that visual arts get their fair shake. Canny self-promotion and the sensational nature of the work itself have ensured that his kitsch-imbued vacuum cleaners, outsize children’s playthings and copulating couples impress not just art-world insiders but the public at large. Read more.
