Upper West Side Collection Devices

An impossibly smart matron—who, now that I write about it, may just be precisely Koons's audience—wrote this to me concerning the world's best-selling extant artist:

'To me, Jeff Koons is as good a self-promoter as Andy Warhol and as shallow an artist. What do you think people see in their so-called art?

Are they hoping for a contact cool?'

The oldest story at Sotheby's. And yet: Who doesn't want it? And also: People don't buy art for their health.