I attended a private view of the Jeff Koons Exhibition at the Ashmolean last Friday. After coffee and croissants, Xa Sturgis, the museum's director, told us the story of how the Exhibition came to be: An Oxford University student society named after Edgar Wind, first Professor of Art at Oxford (see https://edgarwindsociety.co.uk/) decided to inaugurate a prize and present it to Jeff Koons. Koons was evidently thrilled and flew straight over from the States to receive his prize. He was slightly surprised to be greeted by 35 students in the basement of the Ashmolean, but was sufficiently impressed by the museum to subsequently agree to work with them to stage this exhibition. If you like steel representations of balloon animals and blue meditation balls in unusual settings, then this is definitely the exhibition for you.
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February 2023
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