A pig with a green ribbon is being pushed by two young angels (alongside it) with a young boy dressed in a tracksuit behind it.[27] Ushering in Banality was ruled to have "deliberately and exactly copied" a photograph by Barbara Campbell. Koons had instructed his Italian studio to replicate Campbell's Boys with Pig using it as a model for the design.[6]

At a Sotheby's auction in November 2001 one of the three editions of Ushering in Banality sold for US$1,875,750.[31]