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Jeff Koons's "Balloon Dog (Red)" (1994–2000), along with 16 other sculptures, will remain on view at the Palace of Versailles through January 4.

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The exhibition of 17 Koons sculptures, including the porcelain Michael Jackson and Bubbles and the monumental, brightly colored steel Balloon Dog and Lobster, has drawn more than 250,000 people to the 17th-century royal chateau since it opened on September 10. Scheduled to run until December 14, the show will now stay open through the holiday season, closing on January 4.

On its opening day, the show drew protesters who said that showing Koons's monumental Pop works was disrespectful to French heritage. "He can have an exhibition anywhere he wants, but not at Versailles,'' said one protester. "This is not art. Art involves history, research. To blow up balloons and put them here and there, no.''