{"id":2227,"date":"2010-01-04T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/01\/who-said-public-art-cant-be-fun\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T21:28:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:28:01","slug":"who-said-public-art-cant-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/04\/who-said-public-art-cant-be-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Who said public art can’t be fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"

from New York Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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When the Low Went Very High<\/h2>\n

Who said public art can’t be fun?<\/h3>\n

By\u00a0Jerry Saltz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[Jeff] Koons\u2019s work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values. His work embodies our time and our America: It\u2019s big, bright, shiny, colorful, crowd-pleasing, heat-seeking, impeccably produced, polished, popular, expensive, and extroverted\u2014while also being abrasive, creepily sexualized, fussy, twisted, and, let\u2019s face it, ditzy. He doesn\u2019t go in for the savvy art-about-art gestures that occupy so many current artists. And his work retains the essential ingredient that, to my mind, is necessary to all great art: strangeness.<\/p>\n

You can see this in his glorious phantasmagorical masterpiece, the large-scale topiary sculpture\u00a0Puppy<\/em>. This 40-foot visitor from another aesthetic dimension appeared in New York in the first year of the new millennium. It assumed the form of a West Highland white terrier constructed of stainless steel and 23 tons of soil, swathed in more than 70,000 flowers that were kept alive by an internal irrigation system.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYMag.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from New York Magazine When the Low Went Very High Who said public art can’t be fun? By\u00a0Jerry Saltz [Jeff] Koons\u2019s work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values. His work embodies our time and our America: It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}