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Jeff Koons Design Two Bottles for Evian’s 200th Anniversary

Jeff Koons Design Two Bottles for Evian’s 200th Anniversary

Evian water, filtered through glacial rocks in the town Évian-les-Bain in the French Alps, was discovered in 1789, and 37 years later, in 1826, it was first bottled by the King of Piedmont-Sardinia. The ubiquitous and bougie water brand is now celebrating its 200th anniversary by collaborating with a cohort of athletes (tennis stars Carlos Alcaraz, Emma Raducanu, and Francis Tiafoe, and golfer Céline Boutier) and the artist Jeff Koons. Koons’s limited-edition clear glass bottles are for both still and sparkling water. The still bottle has a pink top and an image of one of the artist’s iconic, stainless-steel pink balloon dog; the sparkling one features the same design but in blue. Both are wrapped in a silver ribbon. Related Articles Jeff Koons with his limited-edition Evian bottles. Courtesy Evian Koons’s 12-foot-tall balloon dog sculptures are perhaps his most recognizable artworks. They first appeared in the mid-1990s, as part of the artist’s now-notorious “Celebration” series. Many versions of these exist, in a variety of colors (pink and blue, like on the Evian bottles, plus yellow, …

In LA? Watch Out For LED Truck with Art World’s Jeffrey Epstein Emails

In LA? Watch Out For LED Truck with Art World’s Jeffrey Epstein Emails

Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still sits on the board of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, for example, as does Ronald Lauder. Some have stepped down—French museum director Jack Lang resigned his post, as did School of Visual Arts chair and former museum director David A. Ross—but for Lippy, the penalties haven’t gone far enough. Related Articles So on Saturday morning, as hordes descend on the Santa Monica Airport for the latest edition of Frieze Los Angeles, Lippy will send a mobile LED truck there, bearing photos and video of emails with art world figures, or that mention art world figures, that appear in the Epstein files. The title of the piece, All Of the Gang, comes from an email in which a redacted person asks Epstein if he knows megadealer Larry Gagosian. He’s the dealer to …

Jeff Koons Says He ‘Did Not Have a Relationship’ with Jeffrey Epstein

Jeff Koons Says He ‘Did Not Have a Relationship’ with Jeffrey Epstein

After correspondence between Jeff Koons and Jeffrey Epstein‘s representatives emerged last month via a newly released set of files, the artist distanced himself from the convicted sex offender. Among those files is an email from Koons to Epstein’s assistant, confirming his presence at a dinner held at Epstein’s house, as ARTnews previously reported. Other documents in the newly released files show that Epstein sought a visit to Koons’s studio with filmmaker Woody Allen and Neil Gershenfeld, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Related Articles These new files appear to confirm rumors of the studio visit that were first reported in 2023 by the Wall Street Journal. When ARTnews reached out to Koons’s representative on Monday afternoon, the artist did not respond. Then, in an article published by Hyperallergic on Monday evening, Koons issued a statement in which he said that the studio visit did not end up happening. “To the knowledge of myself and my staff, Epstein never visited my studio,” Koons said. He also addressed the dinner party, telling Hyperallergic: “Upon the …