{"id":10565,"date":"2012-04-01T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2012-04-03T14:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:03:56","slug":"jeff-koons-no-no-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/04\/01\/jeff-koons-no-no-no\/","title":{"rendered":"~JEFF KOONS, no no no . . . & OMG, did I do that !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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happy APRIL FOOL’S DAY !!<\/p>\n

PHOTO: Image by JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS, DILLER, SCOFIDIO + RENFRO, and JEFF KOONS. COURTESY of Friends of the High Line. c\/o NEW YORK TIMES<\/a><\/p>\n

read all about it: ‘High Line May Mix . . .’, NEW YORK TIMES. MARCH 26, 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n

they’ve got to be joking, right ?<\/p>\n

UP-DATE: MONDAY APRIL 2, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

JEFF KOONS wants to hang a full-scale, steel and carbon fiber replica of a 1943 steam locomotive, weighing several tons – near the High Line park, so . . . no – it’s NOT an inflatable. and, no – not even a transparent one at that. too bad.
\nbut for some commonsense – there goes the inspired respite of the High Line.
\nforget the swinging baby metaphor, it’s more like: take down a tree, and put up a parking lot.
\n(or, as they like to update it in Brooklyn: take down a Cinders and put up a nail salon.)<\/p>\n

the Koons’ train that is – not the High Line, which is subtle and sublime, welding visionary design with function. all the while keeping it low-key enough to give its park goers true respite, delight, inspired greenery, and open vistas – which is the right direction to go – fast forward into the city’s future, while guarding it’s historic past. <\/p>\n

. . . the last thing this city needs is a threatening, over-size heavy metal urban metaphor dominating the landscape, and upside down to boot … you done seen one too many Independence Day movies, Jeff. put it in the desert, or put a lid on it.<\/p>\n

and enough with the hangings already, CATTELAN opened and closed the book, and most charmingly, on that. it’s not a genre. if you really want a train museum, take it down from that dumbest-idea-ever crane – and install it on a barge, floating off the Chelsea piers – and charge people a dollar and a half – to see it. and why replicate it, don’t they have any real ones lying around somewhere crying: help ? it’s so pumped-up artificial, conceptually backwards, not to mention basically uncrass, un-green, and really non-lyrical, what could anybody ‘crushing’ on it – be thinking ? so much so . . . one’s tempted to say, must be the money.<\/p>\n

Koons might be thinking big, but it sure ain’t smart. whatever happened to gigantic hush puppies built on the thinnest of infrastructures – filled with flowering plants, once so ahead of the game, you look to be bounced off the tarmac. yo, keep it light, it’s the only way to hang, I mean fly !! . . . into the future. <\/p>\n

UP-DATE: TUES APRIL 3, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

they’ve got be joking, TAKE TWO.<\/p>\n

or: FILE UNDER – OOPS, DID I DO THAT ?<\/p>\n

omg<\/strong>, does a little bit of art world joking invoke a thunderstorm these days, or what. who knew there were so many art world aficionados out there, beyond the usual suspects, like Williamsburg, Bushwick . . . and San Francisco ?<\/p>\n

I mean seriously, I did<\/em> just crow about having ‘radar’, an original ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ co-pilot – but I’d really hate to think these guys would pick up on such small ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’-like oneliners coming out of NYC, and what happened to artistic originality anyways ? you’re stepping on my copyright, dude.
\noh man. if it wasn’t too sick for words, I’d be laughing. <\/p>\n

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\n“CHILLING: This bizarre announcement is appearing in several Arabic Web Forums”, is the caption under this image – published in the NEW YORK POST, on pg 31. today APRIL 3, 2012.<\/p>\n

see: ‘THEY’RE BA-ACK – COPS PROBE SPOOKY QAEDA ‘THREAT’, by JAMIE SCHRAM, NEW YORK POST, APRIL 3, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

guess there is no joking these days – that’s the scary thought. you’ve got to ask yourself: is the New York City art world the last bastion of humor – ? there are some serious haters out there in the world, and I guess the sad conclusion is: don’t ever forget it.<\/p>\n

on the other hand, I guess it’s fair to say, wiseguy – watch the rhetoric, it’s a tinderbox world, and the old rules are out whack with the ways & reach of the web ?
\nsomeone tell me this is just<\/em> my imagination – please.<\/p>\n

well so much for the power of an image. no,<\/strong> the hanging train was not a good idea. and apparently making fun of it – was not either. <\/p>\n

and I don’t think it’s just my imagination.
\nso, time to re-consider art criticism ? how about freedom of speech ? how about giant suspicious hanging packages ?<\/p>\n

no jokes – and no bullying . . . in the brave new internet world, we are gonna have to learn a new language: bland speak. <\/p>\n

WE LIVE IN PUBLIC. no joke.<\/p>\n

and I thought my biggest problem was having my hip hop graffiti artist pix – lifted by 3rd language websites, and re-published without my permission, no original source photo credits, and NO good way to resolve – now that’s<\/em> copyright violation. and that’s the future for original content providers – that’s where web pirating is heading: into the void of global babel. you think it’s bad now, just wait. though apparently an image can still speak a thousand words.<\/p>\n

guess it could be worse – I could be talking about the upcoming art ‘fairs’.
\nb-o-r-i-n-g.
\nor joking. is there no middle ground anymore ? nope, not that I can see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

happy APRIL FOOL’S DAY !! PHOTO: Image by JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS, DILLER, SCOFIDIO + RENFRO, and JEFF KOONS. COURTESY of Friends of the High Line. c\/o NEW YORK TIMES read all about it: ‘High Line May Mix . . .’, NEW YORK TIMES. MARCH 26, 2012. they’ve got to be joking, right ? UP-DATE: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10628,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions\/10628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}