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Wet 'N' Wild.(Dakis Joannou's artful yacht)
Byline: Photographed by Raymond Meier
Is it a motor yacht or a moving sculpture? Art collector Dakis Joannou has enlisted Jeff Koons and a crew of contemporary artists to create the most original sight on the seas. Dodie Kazanjian reports.
Anyone cruising the Aegean this season should be warned: That fantastically colorful, wildly eccentric apparition cutting across your bow is not a mirage. It's Guilty, Dakis Joannou's new boat. Joannou, the Greek construction magnate who is also one of the world's most active and astute collectors of contemporary art, asked his close friend Jeff Koons to paint the yacht's exterior, and Koons, a master of art-expanding ...
- Dakis Joannou M/M (Paris): as the debate over whether fashion is a true art...
- Magazine article from: W Bagley, Christopher November 1, 2007 700+ words
...DOING IN A HALLOWED SPACE NORMALLY RESERVED FOR WORKS OF ART? BUT ONE READER WHO WAS MORE INTRIGUED THAN OFFENDED WAS DAKIS JOANNOU, THE GREEK INDUSTRIALIST WHO HAS SINCE BECOME ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTORS. "I BECAME VERY...
- Jeff Koons will curate an exhibition drawn from the collection of Dakis Joannou...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie November 1, 2009 700+ words
Jeff Koons will curate an exhibition drawn from the collection of Dakis Joannou for the New Museum in New York. The show inaugurates "The Imaginary Museum," an exhibition series showcasing private collections...
- The golden Greek: with a vast budget and an appetite for controversy, Dakis...
- Magazine article from: W Kerwin, Jessica October 1, 2004 700+ words
...Parthenon and the temples of Zeus and Athena. But while the rest of the world was busy marveling at those colossal classics, Dakis Joannou, the renowned art collector, was pushing impatiently toward the future, importing the high-profile gods and goddesses...
- Recalibrating the markets.(NEW YORK: SALEROOMS)(Sotheby's auction)
- Magazine article from: Art Monthly Gleadell, Colin July 1, 2009 700+ words
...Untitled, 1988, went into the sale with record-breaking expectations of $3.5/5m. Consigned by Greek collector Dakis Joannou and guaranteed by an 'irrevocable bid' (ie, a bid a client agrees to make before the auction) it sold after little competition...
- Assemblage required: Elliott Hundley's sculptures take collage to the next...
- Magazine article from: W West, Kevin June 1, 2007 700+ words
...even before he received his M.F.A. from UCLA in 2005, and both the Museum of Contemporary Art and super-collector Dakis Joannou bought early pieces. "He was already a very mature artist," says Gary Garrels, chief curator and deputy director of...
- Talent show: introducing five up-and-coming artists, from painters to...
- Magazine article from: W November 1, 2006 700+ words
...Pompidou in Paris and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and has been bought by collectors like Francois Pinault and Dakis Joannou. "I start somehow and find some structure," says Fischer, "but then it makes itself in a way. It's always a test...
- Breaking records.(NEW YORK)(art sales on the rise)(Statistical data)
- Magazine article from: Art Monthly Gleadell, Colin February 1, 2006 700+ words
...Schamberg sent several works including Hans Hofmann's Stardust, 1959, which brought a record $1.6m. Greek collector Dakis Joannou dispensed with a rare metal and plastic 1964 architectural sculpture by Robert Smithson that made a record $710,000...
- Barry McGee.(MARKET INDEX)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Kuo, Michelle April 1, 2008 700+ words
...been private." McGee's exhibition record has kept pace with this market ascendancy in all sectors, with appearances at Dakis Joannou's Deste Foundation in Athens (2001 and 2004) and the Fondazione Prada in Milan (2002). All this would seem to point...
