Interview

Marc Jacobs is a fashion designer who's changing the meaning of that job. He does what an ordinary superdesigner does, i.e., create fashion-changing clothes for his own labels and for a great French house, but he also does so much more.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

14 ARTISTS REFLECT HIS VISION, AND DOZENS OF FRIENDS REMEMBER HIM  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

He is one of our most successful and prolific artists. And a golfer, a car nut, a collector, and a connoisseur of the side of American culture they don't write about in books. He's a hepcat who removed himself from urban bohemia to explore America from a ruined rural landscape in hollering distance of the Borscht Belt. A pioneer of appropriation, lately he's been suggesting art could be a car, a handbag, or a video game.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08

Walt Disney may have invented the theme park, but Jeff Koons is the undisputed all-American master when it comes to filling the physical world with outsize work that deftly reflects all the mixed-up dreams, romances, anxieties, and desires of the psychological one. And if it seems like his big, brash, and occasionally mind-boggling art has taken on a life of its own recently, then it's with good reason: Because everything is going according to plan.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/26/08