{"id":14607,"date":"2014-12-20T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=14607"},"modified":"2014-12-20T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T18:42:10","slug":"art-in-disguise-a-koons-or-not-a-koons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/12\/art-in-disguise-a-koons-or-not-a-koons.html","title":{"rendered":"Art in Disguise: A Koons or Not a Koons?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see in a report from Paris that someone is threatening to sue Jeff Koons for copyright infringement<\/a> over his depiction of a pig and seminude mannequin. Koons has been accused of infringment before, three times successfully. He has also accused others of copyright violation<\/a> of his balloon dog<\/a>. Here in New York I was walking across town the other day and took a photo of these gigantic holiday decorations opposite Radio City Music Hall. So what makes a Koons better than or different from this display, except that these baubles are not meant satirically — unless the thought occurs to you, as it did to me, that you could take them for humongous hand grenades in disguise. Or maybe they’re a Koons in disguise. <\/p>\n

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This display has been around for years, by the way.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I see in a report from Paris that someone is threatening to sue Jeff Koons for copyright infringement over his depiction of a pig and seminude mannequin. Koons has been accused of infringment before, three times successfully. He has also accused others of copyright violation of his balloon dog. Here in New York I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KOONS-OR-NOT-A-KOONS-aa640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-3NB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14643,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions\/14643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}