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Apr/16

JEFF KOONS IN CONVERSATION WITH GLENN FUHRMAN

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Apr/16
installation view of Jeff Koons's Cat on a Clothesline (Red), 1994-2001, in Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray at The FLAG Art Foundation, 2016. ©Jeff Koons. Photography by Genevieve Hanson, ArtEcho LLC

Jeff Koons, “Cat on a Clothesline (Red),” 1994-2001, in “Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray,” at FLAG Art Foundation, 2016 (©Jeff Koons / photography by Genevieve Hanson, ArtEcho LLC)

Who: Jeff Koons and Glenn Fuhrman
What: Artist talk
Where: The FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves., ninth floor, 212-206-0220
When: Wednesday, April 20, free with RSVP, 6:00
Why: Love him or hate him — or love or hate his art — controversial artist Jeff Koons continues to be a seminal figure in the contemporary art world. On April 20, the Pennsylvania-born, New York-based painter and sculptor will be at the FLAG Art Foundation for a free talk with FLAG founder Glenn Fuhrman, who has also recently sat down with Sean Scully and Awol Erizku. Koons is part of one of the current shows at FLAG, “Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray,” which is on view through May 14. The show consists of three works from each of the artists, “address[ing] themes of youth, nostalgia, and intimacy. The exhibition casts a sense of physical wonder and a jarring disconnect between innocence and subversion.” The three works by Koons in the show are “Sling Hook,” “Winter Bears,” and “Cat on a Clothesline (Red)”; the latter two were part of the extensive retrospective that closed the uptown Whitney in 2014.