Jeff Koons

Last week the AP Art History teacher message board got on a fun digression about art superstar Jeff Koons. If you're not familiar:

Here is a Vanity Fair piece about him. Warning--this has a photo of a man's bare backside.

Here is a review of Koons's show at the Whitney. The review calls the art "thin, puerile, and derivative."

Here is a comparison of his giant sculpture in New York and Kara Walker's giant sculpture in New York.

Here is Koons explaining his Lady Gaga cover.