Why Doesn’t The Art Establishment Respect The Most Successful American Artist Since Warhol?

“Much has always been made of the fact that [Jeff] Koons is in league with the plutocrats and once worked on Wall Street, selling commodities. But he’s always been quick to refuse the art world’s carefully patrolled shibboleths – that work has personal meaning, that it must contain some social criticism, that it express ambivalence about the art market. Koons does not make ambivalent work.”