Greek Cypriot industrialist and heavyweight European contemporary art collector Dakis Joannou has brought together an all star team to create the most unique watercraft on the sea. Named “Guilty”, the 35 meter long yacht is decked out with sleek, artistic interiors by Ivana Porfiri and a pop-art exterior camouflage design by Jeff Koons. This design experiment injects a dose of eccentric fun and innovation into the traditional design language of classic nautical architecture.

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With its £2 trillion surplus, China’s economic might dominates the world. Now its painters and sculptors are developing, collectively, into a contemporary arts superpower. Asian artists, and in particular those from China, dominate a new list of the world’s best-selling contemporary artists of last year. Among the world’s most sought-after artists are the unfamiliar names of Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun and Zeng Fanzhi. (more…)

Neue Nationalgalerie presents today Cult of the Artist: Jeff Koons - Celebration, on view through February 8, 2009. A National Gallery Exhibition, made possible by the Friends of the National Gallery, supported by E.ON. Jeff Koons is rated as one of most successful artists of the present day. And he is surely one of the few living artists who largely owes his popularity to the cult he has systematically built up around his own personality: the way he presents himself in {...}

for what you are about to receive Thursday, 18 September - Saturday, 25 October 2008 Gagosian Gallery at Red October Chocolate Factory 3rd floor Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaha 6 Moscow 119072 Russia http://www.Gagosian.com Opening reception: Wednesday, September 17th, from 8 to 10pm Aaron Young performance Arc Light: Wednesday, September 17th, 9pm Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce its second major exhibition in Moscow, “for what you are about to receive.” This exhibition follows the first presentation of Gagosian artists in the capital last year and continues to build upon Gagosian’s {...}

David Byrne / Jeff Koons 52 Bond St /Summer 1975