In “I was Jeff Koons’s Studio Serf” John Powers talks about his time working for Jeff Koons on the Celebration Series, as a studio assistant in 1995, casting light on the system behind production top works of contemporary art at auction. “The goal was to hand-fashion a flat, seamless surface that appeared to have been manufactured by machine, which meant there could be no visible brush strokes, no blending, no mistakes.”

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