{"id":2154,"date":"2010-06-12T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2010-06-12T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T13:44:02","slug":"oh-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Culture: A Koons at the Seagram Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/woof.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/woof.jpg\" alt=\"woof\" title=\"woof\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/woof.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/woof-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I imagine Mies would not have been pleased to see Jeff Koons&#8217;s kitschy pink balloon dog standing guard in the lobby of the Seagram Building, his masterpiece of pristine austerity. Philip Johnson? You&#8217;ve got to figure he would have smiled at the juxtaposition. It would work better without the plinth\/velvet ropes, but there&#8217;s something about the object and its formal simplicity (prettiness?) that fits. If you were inclined, you could write a thesis on the nature of art, commerce, and cynicism inspired by the combination.   <\/p>\n<p>A largely unknown fact: Mies had actually planned to design a pair of sculptures to sit in the two pools in the plaza of the building, but eventually decided against. Just imagine a pair of Koons dogs in those pools, standing sentinel like Patience and Fortitude at the NYPL. For what it&#8217;s worth, here&#8217;s Susan Sontag (chief theorist of kitsch), and Philip Johnson (sometimes practitioner thereof) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UirwUtTCfLY\">in conversation<\/a> about the Seagram Building. Too bad they&#8217;re not around to comment today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine Mies would not have been pleased to see Jeff Koons&#8217;s kitschy pink balloon dog standing guard in the lobby of the Seagram Building, his masterpiece of pristine austerity. Philip Johnson? You&#8217;ve got to figure he would have smiled at the juxtaposition. It would work better without the plinth\/velvet ropes, but there&#8217;s something about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Culture: A Koons at the Seagram Building<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}