{"id":25692,"date":"2009-04-02T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=25692"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:09:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:09:17","slug":"jeff-koons-a-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=25692","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Koons: A Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=25693\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25693\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jeff-koons-560x474.jpg\" alt=\"jeff koons\" width=\"560\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whitney.org\/Exhibitions\/JeffKoons\">Jeff Koons<\/a> is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity and the global market. Yet despite these achievements, Koons has never been the subject of a retrospective surveying the full scope of his career. Comprising almost 150 objects dating from 1978 to the present, this exhibition will be the most comprehensive ever devoted to the artist\u2019s groundbreaking oeuvre. By reconstituting all of his most iconic works and significant series in a chronological narrative, the retrospective will allow visitors to understand Koons\u2019s remarkably diverse output as a multifaceted whole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">This exhibition will be the artist\u2019s first major museum presentation in New York, and the first to fill nearly the entirety of the Whitney\u2019s Marcel Breuer building with a single artist\u2019s work. It will also be the final exhibition to take place there before the Museum opens its\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/whitney.org\/Future\">new building<\/a>\u00a0in the Meatpacking District in 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Whitney Museum of American Art,\u00a0945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC, 212-570-3600, June 27-October 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nJeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25695,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692\/revisions\/25695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}