At the end of November, Jeff Koons’s impressive Whitney Museum retrospective travelled to Paris’s Centre Pompidou, and the reviews are in! American reviewers were not across-the-board positive, for sure, but it seems the often-fussy French are put off by Koons’s market, uncomfortable with the idea that he does not make his own work, and disturbed by his comparisons between Duchamp and himself.
Let’s start with Slate.fr. (All translations basically courtesy Google Translate):
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