In Jeff Koons’s busy studio in Manhattan, his computer-aided but hand-made paintings and sculptures develop slowly, with a large team of dedicated assistants, in the manner of a Renaissance workshop or atelier. “Artists should embrace all the tools of art to communicate as strongly as possible, as clearly as possible,” says the artist. “But at the same time, there's a morality that comes along with that, and that's just the respect of other people, that their rights are equal to yours.” For the

One of artist Jeff Koons’ famous ‘balloon dog’ sculptures, believed to be worth approx $43,000, was tipped over and shattered at an art exhibit in Florida on Feb 16. The patron who knocked over the artwork was an adult woman who, according to the Miami Herald, had tapped the sculpture with her finger in order to test if it was really made of balloons (it’s not). We know the real question you’re probably asking: You break it, you buy it? Not the case here. According to the Herald, the piece was c