That Time Jeff Koons Killed A Critic’s Review
about 5 months ago (12/17/2023)
Jeff Koons Killed Her Review - The New York Times Art & Design | Jeff Koons Killed Her Review https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/17/arts/design/jeff-koons-brooklyn-rail-tulips-golan.html Share full article 271 Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT It all began with the flowers, and the hands holding them aloft. Romy Golan remembers the day in a Paris garden that she gazed upon Jeff Koons’s “Bouquet of Tulips,” a monumental sculpture that depicts a fist grasping 11 stems topped by balloon-like petals. She immediately saw a conceptual echo of a 1937 mural by Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand showing three hands brandishing what look like wild roses.