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1 week agoReconnecting With Cyprus, the Complex Isle of My Childhood
Cyprus is a culturally rich island grappling with its modern identity amidst a complex history of migration and foreign influence.
Jeff Koons's "Banality" sculptures of the late 1980s are anything but ordinary: few can easily forget the sight of the Pink Panther embracing a partially naked woman, for one. But there's nothing quite so out of the ordinary about the artist's recent creations such as his 2016-21 sculpture Aphrodite, an eight-and-half-foot-tall nude that made its public debut at Gagosian gallery in New York last week.