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How Jeff Koons Keeps it Real

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For a guy whose work is so fantastical—giant topiaries, stainless-steel balloon animals—the artist says he’s all about realism. Blake Gopnik on Koons as perfectionist

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Matthias Willi

Jeff Koons takes knotted balloon dogs and enlarges them in stainless steel. He cross-breeds a rocking horse and rocking dinosaur, and then realizes the hybrid as a house-high topiary.

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