Jeff Koons – The Artist and the Art of Others – NYTimes.com
Even by the standards of the art world, where language about art strays easily into deep and enigmatic waters, Mr. Koons’s way of explaining his own work is hard to take seriously, though he has always seemed to take it that way. With an ever-present warm smile and the comforting tones of a guidance counselor, he has spoken about how art “lets you kind of control physiology and the secretions that take place within the body,” how his art operates in “a morality theater trying to help the underdog,” how his balloon-based sculptures, at least sexually speaking, “really try to address whatever your interests are.” In a profile of Mr. Koons in The New Yorker in 2007 Calvin Tomkins observed that “it is possible to argue that no real connection exists between Koons’s work and what he says about it.”
