«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Sometimes, the insular art world is like a village, but sometimes, it's a townhouse. A very short list of collectors, dealers and art-lovers swanned into the Luxembourg & Dayan townhouse Gallery last night on New York's Upper East Side for the opening of Jeff Koons' "Made in Heaven." Carnal, blatant, acrid, and perhaps gorgeous, the huge photographs printed on canvas feature artist Koons and his ex-wife Ilona Staller (the Italian porn star known as Cicciolina) in extreme close-up and, apparently, in various stages of intercourse. The titles say it all, Fingers Between Legs and Dirty Ejaculation among them.

-New York Observer
Oct 6 2010