ART & DESIGN

Jeff Koons Shuts It Down


Jeff Koons Play Doh

For its last hurrah before closing shop and heading downtown to its new building in 2015, the Whitney Museum of American Art is devoting its entire Marcel Breuer building to a retrospective of the man of the hour, Jeff Koons, which opens tonight. See a preview here.

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Cat on a Clothesline, 1994-2001.

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Detail of Junkyarrd, 2002.

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Koons’s Play Doh.

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Sculpture from Koons’s 1980s series “The New.”

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Balloon Dog.

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Popeye.

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Woman in Tub, 1988 from the Banality Series.