Students persuade Jeff Koons to stage rare UK show
Jeff Koons is to get a rare UK museum show and it is largely thanks not to curators, but the Edgar Wind Society for Art History.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the world’s oldest public museum, announced that it would stage a major Koons show in 2019 displaying works, most of which have never been seen in the UK.
The museum’s director said it was students, who enticed the American artist. The university’s Edgar Wind Society decided to set up a contemporary art prize and the first winner was Koons, so they invited him to Oxford.
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The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the world’s oldest public museum, announced that it would stage a major Koons show in 2019 displaying works, most of which have never been seen in the UK.
The museum’s director said it was students, who enticed the American artist. The university’s Edgar Wind Society decided to set up a contemporary art prize and the first winner was Koons, so they invited him to Oxford.
Read the full story here
What do you think of his artwork?
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