Research one of the exhibitions of Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, and Joana Vasconcelos at the Palace of Versailles and review it based on the documentation you can find and the readings we’ve done for class. Are these exhibitions in good taste, or bad? Are they ironic representations of our current culture, or do they just pander to the lowest common denominator? Can be written in the first person.
Melissa Potter, Material Engagements: Craft and Feminist Futures, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/material-engagements-craft-and-feminist-futures/
Avant-Garde and Kitsch, http://www.paduan.dk/Kunsthistorie%202008/Tekster/CLEMENT%20GREENBERG-AVANT-GARDE%20AND%20KITSCH.pdf
(Links to an external site.)
Socialist Evening Realistic Post, https://artmargins.com/socialist-evening-realistic-post/
https://news.artnet.com/market/mr-doodle-profile-auction-sales-1947142 (Links to an external site.)
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/kaws-what-party-brooklyn-museum-1948026 (Links to an external site.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/beeple-digital-artwork-sale-perspective/2021/03/15/6afc1540-8369-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html (Links to an external site.)
and watch:
https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s5/jeff-koons-in-fantasy-segment/
