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Googling iGoogle

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Nick Haramis

Googling iGoogle For the next three nights, the cyber-Gods over at Google are hosting an art event in New York's Meatpacking District to celebrate their new iGoogle application. Google commissioned over 70 artists—Jeff Koons, Philippe Starck, and Diane Von Furstenberg among them—to design their own unique iGoogle themes, which will be presented "in a very unique way" throughout the Gansevoort Plaza. (We tried to Google what "unique" really means in relation to the Google event, but our computer had a stroke.) The installation gets underway tonight at 8-ish p.m.

Jeff Koons Invades the Met!

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Nick Haramis

Jeff Koons Invades the Met! When we aren't waiting with breath that is bated for updates to Lindsay "Ronson" Lohan's probably fake Facebook profile, we sometimes like to gawk at art. On display to the public, starting today, is "Jeff Koons on the Roof" at the Met. Featuring three large-scale installations—most notable among them, Balloon Dog (Yellow), pictured left—the 10,000 square-foot rooftop space is the perfect place to showcase playful works by the iconic American artist. Koons's work will be on display until mid-October (LiLo's wall probably won't be).

Koons Invades Chicago!

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Jeff Koons

imageAttention all art aficionados! New York City is no longer the center of the art world! At least not from May 31 to September 21! We’ll stop yelling! Calling New York ‘no longer the center of the art world’ might be a tad harsh, but we don’t want to detract from the major exhibit landed by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, between the dates mentioned above. Jeff Koons, y’all. The provocative artist will be bringing his works—many of them iconic—to the museum’s halls in what will be the largest Koons exhibition in 15 years. The show will include his famous sculptures metal Rabbit (left), Balloon Dog, and Hanging Heart. Koons worked closely with the MCA to select the pieces, which will include the staged-sex photos and sculptures he made with his porn star ex-wife, Ilona Maller.