Arthur Jafa Has a Wild Theory About Jeff Koons – The
New Yorker gave filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa the profile treatment. Among the oddball art-historical theories floated by the influential artist: his tongue-in-cheek idea that Jeff Koons is actually “a very light-skinned Black guy passing for white.” As evidence, he cites Koons’s vacuum-cleaner sculptures, which he argues “refer to Black women” and “domestic workers.” He also insists the artist’s pair of floating basketballs “are testicles, connoting everything from castration to Black sexual prowess.” (
Inside the Latest Deaccessioning Controversy – In justifying a big sell-off from its collection, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach said many first-rate artists are “overrepresented” in its holdings. Such “cockamamie” reasoning for deaccessioning 59 artworks is sketchy at best, writes