How to pronounce “koon” in English

Love Jeff Koons.

Painting with Willem de Kooning.

I say nothing negative about Jeff Koons, for instance, in the book.

We have everything from Jeff Koons to Basquiat.

And it was King and it was Koontz.

And it was called the Koontz Komfy Kot.

And so the pamphlets had Koontz Komfy Kot, and the K were bigger than anything else, so you read it as KKK.

And today I'm very excited to welcome Dean Koontz.

Jeff Koons-- you may know his work.

I knew Koons’s early work consisting of vacuum cleaners lit up majestically with fluorescent tube lights and displayed in the vacuum seal of perfect Lucite boxes.

So please join me in giving a very warm welcome to Dean Koontz.

And you know, could walk into a museum and know a Pollock from a de Kooning, but not necessarily who a lot of other guys were.

And I also have a mirrored version that was chromed by the same chromers as Jeff Koons.

And what he then didn't quite say, but clearly meant to say was, artists like Jeff Koons are not what he regards as the highest art.

And he has an El Greco painting, a 430 year old El Greco painting on one wall, a de Kooning on another wall,

Before I had time to process this image fully, we wandered into the Jeff Koons