33 Artists in 3 Acts (55 page)

humor:

of artists, 12, 247, 248, 250, 260, 269, 273, 310

in artworks, 33, 184, 223, 257, 308

seriousness in, 101, 118, 120

in t-shirts, 125, 149

Hurricane Sandy, art threatened by, 225–28

Hymn
(Hirst), 363

i-D
, 57

idealists, artists as, xiv

identity:

African American, 218–19

artists’ crafting of, xiii–xiv, xvi, 4, 66, 171, 240–42, 246, 253, 261

beds and, 69

conflict in, 374–76

as conveyed in lecture, 134

of emigrants, 163

fame and loss of, 74, 114, 242, 262, 291, 308–9

“imposter” in, 126

masculine, 195

others’ perceptions in, 127

persecution and, 39

social, 113

see also
personas

identity politics, 66

Ilona’s Asshole
(Koons), 5

“Image World: Art and Media Culture,” 5

I’m Dying Up Here (Strawberry Shortcake)
(Carland),
68
, 72

Immortal, The
(Hirst), 365

Imponderabilia
(Abramovi
and Ulay), 290

imprisonment:

in China, 12, 24–25, 43–46, 53, 83–86, 113

in Mexico, 32

improvisation, 354–55, 359

“Incidental Self” series (Elmgreen & Dragset), 121

India, 225, 229

individualism, 114

“Infinity Mirror” rooms (Kusama), 315

“Infinity Net” paintings (Kusama), 314

inflatables, 4, 6–7, 18, 106

insecurities, confidence and, 159

installation art:

onset of, 315

see also specific works

Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks, The
(Tanpinar), 64

“institutional critique,” 267

Institutional Revolutionary Party, 32

intentionalist fallacies, 214

“Interdisciplinary Studio” (UCLA), 298

Internet, 6, 87, 206

artists’ use of, 13, 44, 57, 112, 151–52, 180

art video downloads on, 165

introverts, 157

Iran, 64, 78, 114

Iraq war, 97

Istanbul, art scene in, 61–62, 64

Istanbul Biennial, 61–62, 64, 69–70, 73, 98

Jackson, Jesse, 218

Jacobson, Arne, 373

Jagger, Mick, 271

James and the Giant Peach
(Dahl), 150

Japan, 137

art scene in, 17, 313

Jardim Botânico, 239

Jarse
(Ataman),
60
, 63, 69

Javers, Eamon, 327

jazz, 220–21, 359

“Jeff Koons” exhibition, 92

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 143–44

Jerusalem, 164, 167–68

Jews, 39, 51, 95

JN films, 357–58

Joannou, Dakis, 129, 180, 247

Joan of Arc, 113

Johannesburg Biennial, 355

Johns, Jasper, 86, 190

Johnson, Jimmy, 219

Johnson, Rashid,
216
, 217–23

studio of, 221

Jolie, Angelina, 31

Jonathan, Booth (L. Dunham character), 208

Jones, William E., 121, 321

Jopling, Jay, 274, 281

Jordan-Israel border, 167

Judd, Donald, 6

Judgement Day
(Hirst),
320

Julia Stoschek Foundation, 265

Julien, Isaac,
352
, 353–60

artists defined by, 360

Woody Allen compared to, 258–59

June 1994
(Ai Weiwei), 42, 44–45

Jung, Carl, 246

juvenilia, 100

Kahlo, Frida, 31, 196, 331

“Kaleidoscope” paintings (Hirst), 259

“Kaputt” exhibition (Cattelan), 251

Keenan, Thomas, 113

Keller, Samuel, 248

Kellgren, Nina, 354, 356, 358, 359

Kelly, Mary, 298

Kennedy, John F., 325

Kenya, 55

Kikuyu language, 55

Kingdom, The
(Hirst),
32
0
, 366

kinship:

of artists, xv–xvi, 115–254

see also
families; marriage

Kippenberger, Martin, 348–49

Kiss of Midas, The
(Hirst), 273

kitsch, 4, 149–50, 233–34

Klayman, Alison, 91

Kline, Franz, 221

Koh, Terence, 121

Koons, Gloria, 4

Koons, Henry, 4

Koons, Jeff,
2
, 3–7,
14
, 15–20, 37, 38, 46, 65,
76
, 77–81,
90
,
104
, 105–9, 142, 144, 176, 190, 195, 258, 271–73, 275, 367, 370

Ai Weiwei compared to, xv, 9, 91–92

art collection of, 79

artists defined by, 16

C. Dunham compared to, 144–45

celebrity of, 58

commercialism of, 15–20, 33, 46, 78–81, 99, 105, 144–45, 258, 275, 323

disparagement of, 99, 184

and Gagosian, 77–80

Hirst compared to, 275

history and artistic epiphanies of, 4, 6, 7, 16

Liebieghaus retrospective of, 105–6

Orozco compared to, 33

personal philosophy of, 18

politics avoided by, 17

Schirn exhibition of, 107–9

Serpentine talk and slide show of, 3–7, 258

sexual themes in, 5–6, 17–18, 70, 276

studio of, 15–18, 105, 125–26

as synthetic and rehearsed, 7, 19, 23, 33, 79, 108

verbal strategies of, 107–8

Koons, Justine, 106, 370

Koons, Karen, 4

Kramlich family (patrons), 358

Krauss, Rosalind, 174

Kruger, Barbara, 100

Küba
(Ataman), 63–65

kutlu
ataman’s semiha b unplugged
(Ataman), 62–63, 64

Kurds, 63, 65

Kuri, Gabriel, 334–36

Kuri, José, 334–36

kurimanzutto gallery, 191, 331, 334–37

Kusama, Yayoi,
312
, 313–18, 358

studio of, 316–18

La DS
(Orozco), 32

Lakra, Dr, 334

“Landlord’s Wife’s Show, The,” 201

Landscape (Cherry Tree)
(Koons),
14

“Landscapes” series (Zeng Fanzhi), 52

Lange, Dorothea, 72

Large Bather (Quicksand)
(Dunham), evolution of,
140
, 142, 158, 226–27, 250

Late Trees #5
(Dunham),
224

“Late Trees” series (Dunham), 226

Laycock, Ross, 62, 69

Laysiepen, Uwe (Ulay), 290

legalities, art and, 280, 327

Leinonen, Jani, 119

Leonardo da Vinci, 84, 166

Lepart, Diane Henry, 355–58

Lesbian Beds
(Carland), 69

lesbians, 137, 286

as artists, 69–74

Leviathan
(Hirst),
362
, 365, 369

Lewis, Brian, 221

licensing, mass production and, 341

Lichtenstein, Roy, 6, 19, 79, 347

Lidén, Klara, 119

Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, 105–7

Life and Death of Marina Abramovi
(Wilson), 292

Lima, 164

Linda Pace Foundation, 358

Lindemann, Adam, 81

Lisson Gallery, 291

Little Broad, 297

Little Electric Chair
(Warhol), 261, 262

Liu Xiaobo, 12, 85

Liu Zhengang, 44

Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times
(Vasari), 308

Living Means to Appreciate Your Mother Nude
(Trockel), 254

London, 32, 46, 64, 164, 281, 353

art scene in, 3, 23, 56, 126, 193, 205, 217, 291, 314

lone artists, xvi, 52, 53, 171–72, 221, 315, 318

collaborators vs., xvi, 80, 260

“L’1%, C’est Moi,” (Fraser), 350

Longo, Robert, 172

Looking for Langston
(Julian), 354

Loomis, Andrew, 39

Loop, The
(Alÿs), 166

Louis Vuitton handbags, 315

Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, 350

love, 189–90

kinship and, xv

as theme, 70–71, 122

unconditional, 300, 321

L.O.V.E.
(Cattelan),
186
, 187–88, 190, 234

Love Doll: Day 27/Day 1 (New In Box)
(Simmons), 192

“Love Doll” series, 193, 195–96

Love family (patrons), 356

Lullaby Spring
(Hirst), 364
n

Lu Qing, 43–47, 49, 83, 87

artists defined by, 46

Luther, Martin, 184

Maar, Dora, 377

MAC Cosmetics, 175

Machkevitch, Larissa, 274

“Made in Heaven” series (Koons),
2
, 5–6, 78, 107, 276

restaging of, 271–72

Madrid, 314

Magritte, René, 79

Malaparte, Curzio, 251

Malden Bridge, N.Y., 287

Malfatti, Anita, 341

Man, Controller of the Universe
(D. Rivera), 196

Manet, Edouard, 79, 160

Manos Arri
ba
, 39

Manson, Charles, 326

Manzoni, Piero, 152, 367

Manzutto, Mónica, 331, 334–37

Mao Zedong, 24–26, 51

map, of artists’ origins and scene locations,
x-xi

Map of Truths and Beliefs
(Perry), 306

Mapplethorpe, Robert, 77

Marcade, Bernard, 29

Marcel Duchamp
(Marcade), 29

Marclay, Christian,
278
, 279–84, 307

studio of, 279

Marian Goodman Gallery, 335

marijuana, 219

Marilyn Monroe series (Warhol), 17

Shot Marily
n
, 227

Marina Abramovi
Institute, 292

marriage:

as analogy for curators and artists, 236

of artists, 155–61, 195–96

eschewed by Cattelan, 130

Marriage
(Elmgreen & Dragset), 116, 122

Martin, Agnes, 69

Martin, Steve, 172

martyrs, 113

Marx, Karl, 51

masks, 176

“Masks” series (Zeng Fanzhi), 52

mass media, 9

Match Poin
t
, 358

materialists, artists as, xiv

Matsumoto, Takako, 313, 316, 317

Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick
(Nocito),
232

“Maurizio Cattelan is Dead” exhibition, 126

MCA Chicago, 219, 221–22

McCarthy, Paul, 189

McCollum, Allan, 252–53

McCraw, Gary, 15

McKenna, Terence, 143

Me, I
(Mutu),
54
, 56