A Long time ago a very nice lady Emily Harvey started a gallery for her Fluxus friends artists. She bought a old building in 1985 from French Fluxus Artist Jean Dupuy on Broadway and decided to show only Fluxus, mail art and performance art. People like;
Olga Adorno, Eric Andersen, Ay-o, Brian Buczak, Philip Corner, Jean Dupuy, Henry Flynt, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Albert Fine, Geoffrey Hendricks, Christer Hennix, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Jackson Mac Low, Larry Miller, Alain Arias-Misson, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Takako Saito, Carolee Schneemann, Daniel Spoerri, Berty Skuber, Anne Tardos, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Bob Watts, Emmett Williams, Christian Xatrec, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela.
Now Emily is dead. But the building is still here and curator Christian Xatrec works here in the spirit of fluxus. It has become a foundation, with also a space in Venice.
A few of these artists live in the building now. Nice old artists that did crazy stuff, but no money. And now the best part of this story; The ground floor space is being rented by Guess Jeans (the rent is probably between 30 and 40.000$ a month). Making not only these senior fluxus artists live for free, but also getting a allowance!
Monday, November 10, 2008
DREAMS by Jim Shaw
Found the perfect bed reading book; This book was first published in 1995 and has now just been reprinted.
I saw a big show of Shaw a year ago at Metro Pictures and totally felt for his work.
He's been around for a long time, but not that well known. His work is very divers; always a slow career.
These dreams are from 87 - 95. But the drawings date from 93 - 95.
Like most dream art; To be taken in small doses.
3 or 4 Dali's I can enjoy. But a whole museum of Dali, becomes like a amusement Park. Makes me visual immune . That's also a bit my problem with the famous dutch dream drawer Paul Kleemann.
But here in this book, the simple texts by the artist guide you through his brain after-closing time. On the right side of the page the dream is written down in the very fragmented way dream are. On the other side of the page the visualisation of the dream in precise pencil.
A real joy to go from text to drawing and vise versa. Perfect artistbook. This book is cheap, rich , funny and thick.
obama-fatigue? Hell no!
Michelle Obama by Elisabeth Payton (NY art scene-society art star) at The New Museum (painting is a few days old)
(sorry for the bad pic ; "NO PICTURES!!" a guard shouted at me)
(anyway, the painting is not that great)
(I prefer the Sid Vicious looking like a cute, gay, fashion doll)
(more on this show soon..)
Some soundbites from todays NPR radio.
(the word Obama is heard at least once every 5 minutes)
'don't ask what Obama can do for you, but ask what... etc,etc'
"New progressive patriotism."
"copies of last wednesday's NYTimes go for 1000$ on ebay"
T-shirts, hats, jumpers, posters, etc, etc. Everybody adores him.
Even Bush & McCain love him. It's great.
He's the new Santa Claus
(sorry for the bad pic ; "NO PICTURES!!" a guard shouted at me)
(anyway, the painting is not that great)(I prefer the Sid Vicious looking like a cute, gay, fashion doll)
(more on this show soon..)
Some soundbites from todays NPR radio.
(the word Obama is heard at least once every 5 minutes)
'don't ask what Obama can do for you, but ask what... etc,etc'
"New progressive patriotism."
"copies of last wednesday's NYTimes go for 1000$ on ebay"
T-shirts, hats, jumpers, posters, etc, etc. Everybody adores him.
Even Bush & McCain love him. It's great.
He's the new Santa Claus
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