Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and art collectors have their eyes on the shattered pieces of a Jeff Koons sculpture. "Balloon Dog (Blue)," a $42,000 porcelain sculpture from the neo-Pop artist, ...

If balloon dogs weren’t so easily recognizable and reproducible, if they weren’t so commonplace and lowbrow, his shiny gigantic ones would have no meaning, power, or existence.

Welcome to a new NPR series where we spotlight the people and things making headlines — and the stories behind them. If we're being honest, the main character in this story is the woman who bumped ...

Breaking News: A woman accidentally smashed a $42,000 Jeff Koons “Balloon Dog” at an art fair in Miami, Florida. Shattered beyond repair, it's one more hollow Koons piece swept into the trash heap of ...

MIAMI (WFLA) — A woman at an art fair in Miami made an expensive blunder when she broke a sculpture that was worth tens of thousands of dollars, according to reports. The Miami Herald reported that a ...

Editor's note: this story was originally published in February 2023. Modern art is basically a con game. And by that I mean, the value of a piece of modern art is not intrinsically in the item, but in ...