New Museum (Venue Partner)
235 Bowery
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Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection curated by Jeff Koons
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Mar 3, 2010 – June 6, 2010
Wednesdays (noon–6pm)
Thursdays–Fridays (noon–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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- Price
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$8-12
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"Skin Fruit" includes over 100 works by 50 international artists, spanning several generations. Focusing on the body in contemporary art, the exhibition will spotlight the age-old preoccupation with the human form as a vessel of and vehicle for experience. Curator Jeff Koons' title, "Skin Fruit" alludes to notions of genesis, evolution, original sin, and sexuality. Skin and fruit evoke the essential tensions between interior and exterior, between what we see and what we consume. This is the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This will also be the first exhibition curated by Koons, whose early work inspired the evolution of the Joannou Collection.
