Cindy Sherman, adding more Cindy Shermans Irak's superstar Zaha Hadid making big, ugly shiny ornament-sculptures
Andreas Gursky, sorry for the terrible picture: a big gay-party crowed in a supersize architecturehorror night club. (Hadid?) Everybody's happy and sharp. Anton Henning.... Eric Fischl! Still makes good paintings . But this?; please!
This was actually in Soho at Deitch. Kehinde Wiley's Super-xxxxl-size painting of horny black streetkids on a bed of daisys. I'm getting tired, really tired... I like this painting by Barnaby Furnas
Thank You Fischli & Weiss! You saved my day. Back to work.....
Busy Fridaynight;went to a talk for PS1Radio by a curator from Kyrgyzstan at The Lower Manhatthan Cultural Centre ( Wallstreet). I have this CD with overtoonsinging/mouthharp music from Kyrgyzstan and it's been my favorite CD from the last 2 years. So I was curious about the art scene in Kyrgyzstan. (Who isn't!) Kyrgyzstan is very, very remote, rural and empty. It's a crazy idea to me. Anyway the lady, who's invited to NY by the Swiss (http://www.swisscoop.kg/) Didn't showed anything and was a little mysterious. (little suspicious to me..) I can't really remember much from the whole talk, actually. Later I had a little chat with here and showed here this clip, from my favorite Kyrgyzstan-band; She had never heard of them! (I don't want to give the impression I know the Kyrgyzstan arts scene better then this lady, but..well)
(correction, I was all wrong; Read the comment below by the real expert Mark van Tongeren; )
Went to the Emily Harvey Foundation where my friend Joao organizes several events this month . Tonight one of them was this by Alison Knowles. People taken from the audience had to sing together a different song. Then, they all tried to jump up in the air at the same time. Always a great time with the fluxus spirit & people!
After that we (3) went to Bushwick at a new club called Bushwick Starr.I think my first time in this park of Brooklyn. Great place, cheap drinks , nice people; a cute girl asked mefor a dance .Quite some people smoking inside! ( obama? people not scared anymore??). Met 2 people from Amsterdam I know. Crazy how many people I walk into every time.
(It's been a while...this years wasn't that great, or did I missed something?). Charlie Kaufman ( Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation) takes the idea of art imitating life into many extrem forms. It's a whole aspect of the arts, but Kaufman takes it to an other level, without loosing it. Might be his best movie so far. It's packed & stuffed with ideas, big & small ones, that do fit well together. I need to see it a second time. Going from the dollhouse idea to SecondLife and from spying to translation. All these imitations of our lifes or other peoples lifes. It's also a depressing movie, but in a strange good way. It's very very J-L Borges, and probably hundreds of other writers. But there's also a lot of things in it that reminded me of stuff happening in the visual arts at the moment. Georg Schneider, Christopher Bücher and other hyperealistic sculptors. What does the artist? Why, and why the artist keeps on failing, for ever and ever and ever.
I have kept a few copies, from distributing . Email me if you want a copy.
"Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had come to an end.
If, that is, they happened to read a "special edition" of today's New York Times.
In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, 1.2 million papers were printed at six different presses and driven to prearranged pickup locations, where thousands of volunteers stood ready to pass them out on the street.
Articles in the paper announce dozens of new initiatives including the establishment of national health care, the abolition of corporate lobbying, a maximum wage for C.E.O.s, and, of course, the end of the war.
The paper, an exact replica of The New York Times, includes International, National, New York, and Business sections, as well as editorials, corrections, and a number of advertisements, including a recall notice for all cars that run on gasoline. There is also a timeline describing the gains brought about by eight months of progressive support and pressure, culminating in President Obama's "Yes we REALLY can" speech. (The paper is post-dated July 4, 2009.)
"It's all about how at this point, we need to push harder than ever," said Bertha Suttner, one of the newspaper's writers. "We've got to make sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do. After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start imagining heaven."
Not all readers reacted favorably. "The thing I disagree with is how they did it," said Stuart Carlyle, who received a paper in Grand Central Station while commuting to his Wall Street brokerage. "I'm all for freedom of speech, but they should have started their own paper."
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!
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.
Cindy Sherman, adding more Cindy Shermans
Andreas Gursky, sorry for the terrible picture: a big gay-party crowed in a supersize architecturehorror night club. (Hadid?) Everybody's happy and sharp.
Anton Henning....
Eric Fischl! Still makes good paintings . But this?; please!
This was actually in Soho at Deitch. Kehinde Wiley's Super-xxxxl-size painting of horny black streetkids on a bed of daisys. I'm getting tired, really tired...
I like this painting by Barnaby Furnas
Thank You Fischli & Weiss! You saved my day.
