{"id":4990,"date":"2010-07-28T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2010-09-27T13:14:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:14:56","slug":"im-jealous-of-rxart-jeff-koons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/im-jealous-of-rxart-jeff-koons\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of rxart &#038; jeff koons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rxart_jeffkoons.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4991\" title=\"rxart_jeffkoons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rxart_jeffkoons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"1688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\" www.rxart.net\" target=\"_blank\">RxArt<\/a> is an amazing New York based non-profit organization who have taken it upon themselves to brighten the often drab and depressing spaces in hospitals, with beautiful and inspiring contemporary art. I wrote about them for the first time last February when I featured the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/im-jealous-of-mary-temple\/\" target=\"_self\">Mary Temple<\/a>, and today, I&#8217;m writing about their latest project. One of my favourite artists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffkoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Koons<\/a>, worked with them on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rxart.net\/project\/jeff-koons-ct-scanner-for-advocate-hope-childrens-hospital\" target=\"_blank\">CT Scanner project at  Advocate Hope Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a>. Instead of sterile white <em>{and that awful washed out green that hospitals always seem to be}<\/em> this room is filled with bright colours, monkey heads, and of course, a huge dog balloon! I think anything that could make a child, and their worried parents, feel a little less scared in a situation like this is absolutely inspirational. Keep up the wonderful work RxArt!<\/p>\n<p><em>{The other little tidbit about this story that I love, is that Jeff Koons waved any kind of fee for his involvement in this project&#8230; now that&#8217;s some very nice art karma if you ask me!}<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\"><em>Copyright Jeff Koons<br \/>\nPhotos: Michael Tropea, Chicago<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RxArt is an amazing New York based non-profit organization who have taken it upon themselves to brighten the often drab and depressing spaces in hospitals, with beautiful and inspiring contemporary art. I wrote about them for the first time last February when I featured the work of Mary Temple, and today, I&#8217;m writing about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,285],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}