Richard Milazzo

Art

Jeff Koons: Shiny on the Outside, Hollow on the Inside, Part 2

I wrote most of the first two sections of this essay (Part 1) in March 2011, but never submitted it anywhere. I think I lost interest in the subject. I thought I wrote it well before the negative critiques would surely come rolling in, even before Koons’s retrospective at the Whitney in 2014.

Art

Jeff Koons: Shiny on the Outside, Hollow on the Inside, Part 1

Shiny on the outside, hollow on the inside. That is how the work of the American artist, Jeff Koons, has been generally described and received, not only by those who are less than affectionate toward it but also by those who like it.