Design
Paris: 'Please Do Not Give Us This Jeff Koons Sculpture'
Wrong art, wrong location, say critics.
At first, it might have sounded too good to be true. In November 2016, American artist Jeff Koons offered the city of Paris a huge new piece of public art that would cost the city nothing.
Koons’s 40-foot high Bouquet of Tulips would sit outside two of the city’s most important art spaces, the Museum of Modern Art and the Palais de Tokyo, and function as a defiantly colorful monument to the 130 victims of the November 2015 attacks. Its construction would be funded by private donors.