Koons

A profile of a survivor of the attack at the Bataclan:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/12/surviving-bataclan-you-have-to-live-life-to-the-full-for-all-the-people-who-died

Commemorative sculpture :

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/22/jeff-koons-sculpture-tribute-paris-attacks-bouquet-of-tulips

The American Post Modernist artist Koontz is creating a sculpture to commemorate the terrorist massacre at the Bataclan in France. I was struck be the vapidity of it and to learn more I found the following critique of an earlier work that shed a lot of light on his work. 

"So, when Koons says his work has no meaning, it's because he believes it shouldn't, and that's what makes it good. This kind of hardline Postmodernism has been discredited as overstating the case to the point of stupification and vapidity, partly for the irony of trying to appear more profound by denying profundity exists. I would have understood his art better, and sooner, if I'd had a lobotomy before looking at it. "

From: https://artofericwayne.com/2013/11/21/how-to-understand-jeff-koons-paintings-and-why-they-are-an-attempt-at-original-art-includes-a-top-ten-list-of-his-key-features/

If all that people see is a bunch of cartoon flowers, I'm not sure the message of hope and solidarity is going to come thru.