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 ...

Jeff Koons, best known for his Balloon Dog sculptures that have sold for as much as $58 million, has collaborated with Lexon Design and The Broad museum in Los Angeles to make his iconic artworks more ...

A story went viral Wednesday about Alibaba selling a version of Jeff Koons' famous balloon dogs for only $500. But since then, the dogs have disappeared. Koons' real balloon dogs, of course, set a ...

When one of Jeff Koons’s massive Balloon Dog sculptures sold at Christie’s New York this past November for $58.4 million it made him the most expensive living artist anywhere. At a recent party at ...

Cj Hendry’s new project is blowing up. Literally: she’s taken to creating balloon sculptures, twisting and modeling balloons of every color into forms so absurd she’s only calling them “knots.” She is ...

The $42,000 sculpture was destroyed last week it toppled over at a Miami event in what a collector called "one of the most crazy things I've ever seen" It might be broken — but Jeff Koons' "Balloon ...

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 ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Balloon ...

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, ...