Perspective: A bunny sculpture by Jeff Koons just sold for $91.1 million — another sign that the art world is untethered from reality
“Rabbit” by Jeff Koons sold for a record-setting $91.1 million at a Christie’s auction on Wednesday. By Sebastian Smee Sebastian Smee Art critic Email Bio Follow Art critic May 16 at 1:21 PM When an artwork fetches a record price at auction, the first question everyone silently asks is: “Could it really be worth that?”
It’s redundant because we are in a realm divorced from reality. Intentionally so. Koons, more than any other artist, has shown that reality itself is biddable. This is the message behind his long and bizarre career, and it is the message I take away from this news. Like a lot of people who loathe what Jeff Koons stands for, I happen to like “Rabbit” and think it very successful as a work of art. I like Koons’s giant flower sculptures, too — “Puppy” and “Split-Rocker” and a few other individual works.
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