After the death of 8 people.

Glib would be the people who say that gun free zones are a magnet for criminals and terrorists.

If only there was some sort of law preventing people like this from having guns. Oh wait the NRA donates heavily to the government. Never mind.

Hopefully so. It was over a decade ago when I saw him and other than the whole bit about his wife, he seemed surprisingly approachable. That part just fiercely rubbed me the wrong way.

Go fuck yourself with a kumquat you cunt.

I do not think that she is trying to force them to go, but is raising money for them. Not to mention the whole “not letting the terrorists silence us” thing...

Honestly... fuck you.

Like it’s her fault? And also, she is doing it to raise money. Hypothetically you wouldn’t have to go. Others would in support of your hypothetical daughter

As the original artist is dead, it won’t have a personal effect on her, but it does send a message to other artists that their personal work doesn’t matter, if someone well-known like Jeff Koons wants to use it and then distort where he got it. It also has an effect on the art market: if the connection to Zhnikrup had…

The problem is that the publicity materials lied about the source, until they were called out. How anyone could think that figure with the yellow ponytail is from “the turn of the 20th century” is beyond me, but saying the work was an anonymous piece “found at a Russian factory” when they know it was by a specific…

Favorite Jeff Koons story: He is actually from my folks’ hometown (Dover, PA) and there was quite the kerfuffle in a local paper when a piece of his was found to be modeled after a local man’s mailbox - which he had built from an engine block. The original mailbox design was an attempt to stop neighborhood kids from…

Here’s two more real winners, just to save you the googling effort:

Oh. My. God.

I had *just* come off a course on the art of Versailles, so I was particularly excited to see everything in person. Art historian nerd alert!

The idea that art should be original is very recent. Like last 100 years.

I saw him give a talk once, as well. While he came across as very chill like you say, he also came across as kind of a flippant, thoughtless dick. I remember him casually talking shit about his ex-wife while an image from “Made in Heaven” of her with ass cheeks spread, riding his dick was displayed on the screen. He…

What makes this really funny to me is that (I’m 99.9% sure) once again Koons is just copying someone else. IIRC Takashi Murakami was the first contemporary artist to get the French government’s approval to show his work as Versailles.

*are ripoffs still art?

Nah.

Koons is a businessman. He’s a trademark. That’s all. I’ve known more than a dozen artists who have worked in his factory on paintings and sculptures. He’s just a brand. He’s Donald Trump. His relationship with the truth behind his work is analogous to Trump’s. None of it really matters. He doesn’t care what you know…