Scott Rothkopf is the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Curator and Associate Director of Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Despite his titanic art world status, Jeff Koons has never been the subject of a retrospective, nor of a book this comprehensive. Charting every significant series of works, from basketballs and vacuum cleaners to paintings and pornography to blown-up tchotchkes and balloon animals, along with a wealth of ephemera, the catalogue delivers. Eight pithy texts from a diverse array of academics, writers, scientists, and museum folk (the contributions from novelist Rachel Kushner and Renaissance scholar Alexander Nagel particularly shine) augment Whitney curator Scott Rothkopf's essay. -Zoe Lescaze, ARTnews -- Zoe Lescaze ARTnews Rothkopf's clear and coolly measured catalogue introduction must be read by any serious critic of Koons, pro or con. -Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker -- Peter Schjeldahl New Yorker