The Whitney Museum of American Art, located at 75th Street, presents the worlds foremost collections of modern and contemporary American art.
Today The Whitney is devoted to a single artist, Jeff Koons.
Jeff Koons has become one of the most influential, provocative and best-known American artists of our time. The artist was raised in Pennsylvania, and has studied in both Baltimore and Chicago. He moved to New York in 1977, where he still lives today. Koons began his career as part of a wave of Simulationists, who based their ideas on kitsch.
Many of his art works have been sold at auctions and privately, for example, in 2001, his “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” sculpture sold for $5.6 million.
He is the only American artist who displayed the exhibition of 17 sculptures at the Chateau de Versailles.
“Jeff Koons: A Retrospective” is on view through October 19 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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