This volume provides a fascinating inside look at the controversial Skin Fruit show curated by Jeff Koons at the New Museum in New York City in 2010. Each of the installation photographs in this book are framed shot-for-shot, just as Koons himself envisaged the different art works from the Dakis Joannou Collection interacting with each other. Realized in media incorporating anything from acrylic to chocolate and video to elephant dung, works included in the show ranged from artists such as Pawel Althamer, David Altmejd, assume vivid astro focus, Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Barney, John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Dan Colen, Roberto Cuoghi, Haris Epaminonda, Urs Fischer, Robert Gober, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, Liza Lou, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Chris Ofili, Charles Ray, Kiki Smith, Christiana Soulou, Kara Walker, Andro Wekua and Franz West, among others. With color photographs accompanied by a candid interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons: Skin Fruitis a rare opportunity to delve inside Koons' private thoughts on collecting, curating and the nature of art.