About Jeff Koons, pop art and the art (hidden) in the dark.

(...) We are in a period of art history in which even the director of the Museum of Modern Art can state that art history is not linear; hence, as reported recently, the galleries in the new MoMA building will have multiple doorways so that the viewer will not be forced down a single path.(...) True, art history is not linear. But it is also not made up of neat little gravestones, such as Here Lies Pop Art, 1961 - 1968. Just because Warhol was shot in 1968 doesn't mean his or anyone else's Pop Art was over. Another way of looking at art is to see that it is the critical spotlight (or nowadays, the marketing spotlight) that moves about, leaving a lot of art in the dark.

And when someday we turn on the houselights, what will we see?

From Artopia, written by John Perrault. To read the full article (and more), click here.