What with the Brooke Shields furore at the Tate and Jeff Koons recent show at the Serpentine, Pop Art has hit London. The Koons show (sadly now finished) was hugely intriguing, his trademark juxtaposition of the banal and everyday, the crafted and the manufactured. Children's inflatable toys float, captured and entwined with metal and plastics, the nearby sign being the only suggestion that everything is not as it initially seems - the toys are actually anodised aluminium. You don't believe it - every crease, fold, valve and type is faultless, so the urge to reach out and touch, to be sure, is contained only by the hovering gallery staff standing next to each piece. As such, the experience becomes frustrating yet remains fascinating, as smiley rubber rings, try to escape rusty 8ft industrial fences they connect with. A typically shallow Koons experience that sits with you for a long time.
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The Tate must be taken to task for removing the Brooke Shields photo and suppressing it in the catalog. It did so without any court order, simply on "advice" from the OPS. And they've gone and censored themselves again by removing 34 images by Graham Ovenden from their website. You can see the proof here.
http://notthetate.blogspot.com/
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