Tag Archives: Jeff Koons

Steve Mnuchin’s Dad Ran an Ad in the New York Times

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Well the hardworking staff was leafing through the New York Times yesterday and what did we come across but this quarter-page ad in the A section. Of course that got us to wondering: Mnuchin Gallery – any relation to Treasury … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, Government Sachs, Jeff Koons, Jerry Saltz, Joshua Green, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Rothko, Medium, Mnuchin Gallery, New York magazine, Reds, Steve Mnuchin, Upper East Side Patch, Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama | Leave a comment

Ban the Museum Selfie Shtick!

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

William Grimes’s front-page piece in Sunday’s New York Times pinpoints one of the great tragedies of our times. Museum Rules: Talk Softly, and Carry No Selfie Stick In a famous lab trial, a chimp named Sultan put two interlocking sticks … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Gothic, Art Institute of Chicago, Grant Woods, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Jeff Koons, Katy Perry, Koons Is Great for Selfies!, Magritte, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Times, selfie sticks, Sree Sreenivasan, Temple of Dendur, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Grimes | 1 Comment

Dead Blogging ‘Calder and Abstraction’ at PEM

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem yesterday to catch Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic at the Peabody Essex Museum and, say, it was swell. Alexander Calder’s abstract works revolutionized modern sculpture and made him one … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Burgess Meredith, Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, Creative Salem, Herbert Matter, IMDB, Jed Perl, Jeff Koons, John Cage, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York Review of Books, On Redefining Sculpture, Peabody Essex Museum, PEM, Stephanie Barron, The New Republic, The Penguin, Whitney Museum of American Art, Works of Calder | 2 Comments

The War of Art in NYC’s Auction Houses

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

It’s auction season for the arterati, and yesterday’s New York Times was the Antietam of tony gavel houses in the Big Town. There was, for instance, this Christie’s ad in the A section: Which sends us to this video presented by Loic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andy Warhol, Antietam, Bonhams, Christie's, Christopher Martin, Frederick Carl Frieske, Gary Gardner, If I Live, Jean-Michel Basquuiat, Jeff Koons, John Currin, Loic Gouzer, Mark Rothko, New York auction houses, New York Times, Richard Prince, Sotheby's, the arterati, The Garden Chair | 2 Comments

That’s Just So Stupid! (Jeff Koons ‘Balloon’ Payment Edition)

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Full-page ad from Friday’s New York Times: Seriously? Thirty-five million dollars for a tired, lame-to-begin-with koncept? That would make history alright. Historic idiocy.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Balloon Dog (Orange), Christie's, Jeff Koons, New York Times | 2 Comments

Call It The Ga-GO-sian Gallery

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The other day the hardlooking staff noted that Art Shark Damien Hirst had dumped his longtime partner Gagosian Gallery, which last year, as the New York Times Artsbeat blog reported, “gave Damien Hirst all 11 of its spaces around the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Art Basel Miami Beach, Damien Hirst, David Zwirner, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons, Larry Gagosian, New York Times, spot paintings, Yayoi Kusama | Leave a comment

WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Apparently, Wall Street Journal editors don’t read their own paper. Last week the Journal ran an op-ed piece about ripoff artist Richard Prince getting busted for appropriating other people’s work (specifically “[the] book ‘Yes, Rasta,’ by French photographer Patrick Cariou, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Canal Zone, Damien Hirst, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons, Larry Gagosian, Pablo Picasso, Patrick Cariou, Prince of Pilfering, Richard Prince, Wall Street Journal, Yes Rasta | Leave a comment