kimmie nguyen:

My Parents Were Awesome

via ffffound.com

Art Work of the Decade: Jeff Koon's Puppy

via New York Mag: When Public Art Became Highbrow

"Koons’s work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values. His work embodies our time and our America: It’s big, bright, shiny, colorful, crowd-pleasing, heat-seeking, impeccably produced, polished, popular, expensive, and extroverted—while also being abrasive, creepily sexualized, fussy, twisted, and, let’s face it, ditzy. He doesn’t go in for the savvy art-about-art gestures that occupy so many current artists. And his work retains the essential ingredient that, to my mind, is necessary to all great art: strangeness."

Dumpster Dips in the Big Apple

via www.nytimes.com

“On a rented lot that's hidden from the street are three connected pools housed in DUMPSTERS... It makes you wonder, as so many things in New York do, what’s behind every wall that you can’t see past.”