In 1992, the first major Jeff Koons retrospective was held in San Francisco. Already both lauded as a visionary and reviled as a provocateur, Koons is in energetic good humour as he and his wife—Italian porn star/politician Ilona Staller—roll into town for the show. Intriguing and canny in equal measure, Jeff, Embrace Your Past features everyone caught up in Koons’s success— the curators, the consultants, and the collectors—and captures the artist on the cusp of greatness. Plays with Abandoned Goods (dir. Pia Borg & Ed Lawrenson, 2014, 37 min.). Between 1946 and 1981, patients at a rural English mental hospital participated in a pioneering art therapy program. Like a time capsule from inside the asylum, Abandoned Goods mines a rich archive of thousands of works to become a profoundly moving exploration of outsider art. (JH)