Deitch - on the "Train to NoWhere" - MoCA move?

Word today was Deitch may be heading out to MoCA to pull Jeff Koons Train to nowhere out of the station" which has a rumored price tag of $25 million and is currently stalled due to financial difficulties.

New Year's Shootings on Broadway. Some dudes nephew & Scorsese / Chanel Commercial.

2 Things got Shot on my block already this year.


A) A guy got shot beside my laundry drop off spot, the Gothamist picked it up: Article

Forty-nine-year-old Mauro Lopez was playing pool with a relative, on January 2 in the back of a bodega on Broadway, when he stormed out of the makeshift pool hall, announcing that he was going to get a gun. As promised, he returned with a pistol and fired a deadly shot into his nephew's chest.

B) Scorsese was shooting at my brunch spot, and Gawker picked it up: Article

"So...Martin Scorsese and a Chanel Commercial Walk Into a Williamsburg Bar.

Martin Scorsese was apparently filming an ad for Chanel in Uber-Hipster (and Uber-Chasid) Williamsburg right under Moto near the Hewes Street JMZ stop the other night. Could've been worse. At least it wasn't for APC jeans. Or Sparks. [Dossier]"

Thank God “Tony Baloney,” the man who has been trying to get me to work on a film on the "Secret" life of our block since the day I moved in is on the scene. According to Free Williamsburg he was all over it. Funny because "Whacked" is the first word that came to my mind.
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MOCA Set to Name Jeffrey Deitch Director?

Looks like the rumors are real and we may loose our favorite dealer to L.A. We heard he was the hardest hit by the current economic issues so this make sense.
Deitch is best on an Epic scale & he has the Art / business , performance / event, & corporate know how / connections MoCA needs. Hope he keeps spaces here.

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Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970 // David Zwirner is going back to Cali

David Zwirner is going back to Cali with a museum quality show of East coast "Light and Space" Artists.

Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970 is both heady and light, combining transcendental properties with visual play. These "Finish Fetish" Artists were influenced by industrial paint on cars and surf boards as well as plastics in the aerospace industry. Light and space Artists explore celestial space through man made industrial products.

A Primary Atmosphere is an atmosphere of a planet that forms by accretion of gaseous matter from the accretion disc of the planet's sun. At Zwirner "Primary Atmosphere" is the light at the end of the tunnel by way of the korova milk bar.

The unique California experience was highlighted today as lights went out in parts of the state when a 6.5 earthquake struck off the coast.

You can download the Press Release here: Press

Serra on the move - Hiram Abiff !

Urs Fischer: Glory Holes

We got a hint of Urs Fishers S&Mey tendencies when he gauged out the walls of the Whitney in the 2006 Biennial to reveal a hot wax drinking candelabra.

We got a kick out of him puttin the Artworld in a hole in 07. - And its irresistible play with space when viewed from the bottom of the pit.

After wandering through the New Museums Marguerite de Ponty 3 floor dungeon we are shocked to read such bland reviews of such hyper sexual work.
We admire his many plays on space, object, light and games with reproduction and reality.

However far away from Art spaces photos of Noisette, 2009 licks them all. NM posters advertising the show plaster every other NYC cab and subway car with a glory hole that no one seems to take offence to.

Brilliant.

And the harder they come, the harder they fall

Word on the street this week was the contemporary art market had lost 40% of its value in a year. The Asian Market was sited as particularly hard hit clocking an 80%-90% percent loss.

I was raised on the idea that the stock market was in a state of constant growth, wise investments like property gained value over the years, and the future is a bright utopia for conservatives.

I went to Art school on the idea that if you attended classes, adapted to your classmates styles, and opinions, and expressed yourself with in certain parameters you would be O.K. No one spoke about a structure or community after graduation or even your loans. "If you can't make it good make it big, if you can't make it big make it red, if you can't do that make multiples" ... Or "If it doesn't work out there are plenty of teaching jobs".

With such terms as "ride the wave", "jump the shark", and "surface surfer" still in heavy rotation this year, I am feeling a heightened awareness of the churning, Operatic, Oceanic nature of the Art world. It appears as less and less as a goal oriented mountain to scale and more a state of being. The size of the swells vary but they will always churn. The loss and gain of value of Fine Art is part of the natural regulating cycle of the open market Art world. Of work that fell only a certain percent of Artists will recover a small percent of the original value, some not at all, some will surpass their own prices during the next peak, and new blood will be introduced to the system.

if that's all there is my friend then let's keep dancing

Zhang Huan: Neither Coming Nor Going. December 11, 2009 — January 30, 2010 PW 22.

WHITNEY BIENNIAL: THE LIST
Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari announce the artist list for 2010,the Whitney Biennial.

Tires in 2009

What would you like to see in a MoMA phone app ??

What would I like to see in a MoMA / I-Phone app. -- provenance & price !

Happy Fall Season is about to Open.

THE REMAINS OF THE DAY - a decade indeed !

1999 - i was graduating from undergrad school in Detroit Mi with a BFA in Studio Art ... plotting on how to move to NYC and survive with nothing in the bank.

it all came back in a flash reading this article ...

THIS ARTICLE
Don’t look now, but another art season is upon us and also the end of another art decade. It has been a decade bracketed by 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama, and, in our corner, by art world market dominance and deep insecurity.

For the art world the beginning ten years of the new millennium can be branded The Synthetic Decade, a dual meaning of artificiality and synthesis. Paradigms of identity, subject matter, instant communication and materials exploded all over the planet, to the point where notions of "movements," "styles" and "trends" became meaningless. The late Jason Rhoades is the most symbolic creator in this matrix, a man constantly enveloping one culture over another in his chaotic installations.

Google: annie Lebowitz finance

when you get the attention of: nytimes.com, reuters.com, msnbc.msn.com, www.afterellen.com, telegraph .... as a photographer you know you've hit a chord.

Dante's Lift.

Matthew Barney meets Andy Warhol in the Standard hotel. Created out over 300 video clips & installed in an elevator. Marco Brambilla takes us on the journey threw Dante's Inferno.

Marilyn Minter & Madonna

To of my fav. sexy role models have teamed up ! check out Marilyn Minter “Green Pink Caviar" as the backdrop for Madges tour.

Respect ... & where I have been.

Hi - I have been away from this space & the Artworld for a bit working on my video lab. I am happy to report that I have almost completed my project.

1) I would like to take a min to pay respect to NYC Downtown Artist Dash Snow. He played an important role as the villain of academia .. to be missed.

2) I would like to pay my respect to MJ an Artist who has had a profound effect my life and work.

Now may they have found the Peace they never could on earth.

Love.

Mappa Mudia at MoMA

One of the best indications for one to determine on how they intuitively relate to a show is that "Initial Reaction"... the almost reflexive first impression. My eye was immediately drawn to a spherical sculpture wrapping around itself like a rubber band ball intersected with lines .. *Snap* the - latest Depeche mode album cover! " Sounds Of The Universe". <<>> = "Mappa Mudia" (globe of the imaginary planet) at MoMA / León Ferraris" Planet" & Gagarin named after Soviet (Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin or the first human in outer space). <<>> = Camo infront of my favorate Unisphere. In swine flu death site Queens Ny.

I thought myself rather clever as i mused over the humor of these associations and prepared to travel through a rather formal stanch heady show. My afternoon took and amusing twisted as i further ventured into Mr. Ferrari and Mira Schendel's show to discover a sometimes "LOL" quirky pairing. Clearly questioning form by way of Ad Rienehert cartoons. The high point for me included Collage pairing kamasutraic couples encounter with Catholicism. Sex Sells.

Not to be missed - León Ferrari, universes drawings which defy verbal description. Run don't walk. .. I will follow this up with some thoughts on Aernout Mik la8er.

when the going gets tough the tough go to the Disco.

New Attitude

Boys Night out at Mary's and MoMA's Wild Wild West.

Gallery pic of the week is at Mary Boones 24th street location. Terence-Koh's Urinal, Mike Kelly's castings of Popular toy's and Koon's containers played off each other in material and form for a real boys night out. Mary was donning a pair of jeans and black leather coat.

"If you are reading this, thank you. My purpose in assembling this exhibition was not to emphasize a curatorial message as such, but rather - quite simply - to put three of my favorite American artists side by side. No tricks, no gimmicks, no bullshit just sculptures representative of each artist's practice. I hope you enjoy looking." - Javier Peres, Berlin, February 18, 2009

enjoy i did. Earthy and Moving Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West is a MoMA must see. Here Historical photos of the self made American hero are placed salon-style beside those of Hollywood Iconography and Contemporary Art Royalty. Gritty notions of reality, fantasy and rugged glamor pour together and are pulled apart in the cool clean crisp frames of Modernism. wishing on a star.

More to come on Gladstone, X- Initiative, PS1 and a few other shows for the lets tie this all together bondage addition for Spring 2oo9 season.

electric banana.

kenneth anger ps1 - X Initiative... * * * * *

i will do a post about the significance of the Anger show at PS1 and media in X Initiative later in the week when i get a chance to absorb the full programs at both further. In brief the You-Tube Asthetics and devices are directly out of Experimental film and not Hollywood. Children approch video in a mode with much in common with avant-guard film makers.

One of the lovelier moments of my life in a mues. happened today while sprawled under a red lightbulb leafing through Angers Hollywood babylon. A group of 15 10ish year old school children came in during the Gang Bang scene and wandered around for about 5 mins before the guard and monitor noticed... what was on the screen. I feel i witnessed a formative moment in these kids life, seeing the roots of media that is second nature to them.

spring fairs

Spring Fairs 2009 - NYC - a heightened level of maturity, irony, anger and rock. The Fairs are where one can witness a dealers true colors. Our romance with the pre-pubescent has slipped from vogue and figure is back in a big way. We cuddle up to the classics in times of economic hangover. Over all the fairs struck me as painterly with out being academic and have reached a level of maturity in the both the stage of carrier of the Artist being shown and construction. The Armory is international and crowds were light for a Sat. The piers were separated into "Contemporary" and "Modren". Matthew Marks has sold his crown. Chelsea is no longer king. Satellite Fairs are the focus. Rock n Roll has not left the building. The work felt solid and stronger then it has in years and I fantasied about taking a good chuck home with me. Work I would have grabbed - scope - Hubert Kretzschmar's Resurrecting The Dead Boys, Armory - “Keeping Faith,” by T.V. Santhosh and Mounir Fatmi. i will write more when i fully recover.

support.

ladies night

figurative painting is dead. long live figurative painting. the 'gold' stock of the Artworld. word on the street is the dealers are warming up for auction looking back at the big winners from last season... scroll down in blog for pattern. - the currin current.

lisa yuskavage latest show moved from the confessional to the cheap and confused.

opening the same night susan rothenberg's show is a bridge over troubled assets. gorgeous.

Burning Ring of Fire.

For this seasons Jackpot "of the time show", burning lustful nihilism by way of childhood wet dream fantasy Jack the Pelican is a must see. If its so bad why does it feel so good? Its not about winning or loosing its about being in the game - or is that what got us into our current fiscal conditions?. Equus Maximus Equally as gripping are Apocalypse now school girl pop fantasy paintings in the front gallery.

"Second Nature"

The work of Amy Talluto brightens Jan at Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn where nature serves to express the multiple facets of the body and mind.

A little of the old in-out in-out Manzoni & Rottenberg

Bad Boy Piero Manzoni's Museum style retrospective curated by Germano Celant at Gagosian Gallery, 24th street is a must see. The only pic I was able to snap was of his famed excrement in a can. A guard promptly approached and tried to force me to erase it however I managed sneak away. The level of irony of this action did not go unnoticed. This show pairs Manzoni's work along with those Artists he influenced and those that influenced him.





Another to add to your list is Mika Rottenberg's stills for for W Magazine at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery. I was first introduced to her Barneyesque video's at PS1's Greater New York show in 2005. I enjoyed the work in various moods and states on my multiple visits to the hey day of Summer Warm up. Some of the noted Artworld personalites in attendance were Artnet's Walter Robinson, Artist Marilyn Minter and Mega-Dealer Mary Boone.


Just for fun - and overheard - MB "Obama's call for change has inspired her to work with other dealers and not be an such and elitist in the new year". Perhaps we can look forward to a Rottemberg experience at Mary's.

Robert Irwin, - staring into the sun lyrics / Allora & Calzadilla, - Dark Side of the Moon

Robert Irwin has long been at the top of my top Artists list. I often say that his fascinating phenomenological phantoms and impeccable essays he taught me to see. The current show at Pace Wildenstein is no exception. Looking right at the Flavinesque neon work is like staring into the Sun - it bores and burns. The meat is in the reflected light RED DRAWING WHITE DRAWING BLACK PAINTING can be nicely felt in this blurry snap of Chuck Close. Apologies for the quality of these photo's I had to act quick as Pace has a no camera rule. - or perhaps they are exactly the way Irwin would have us focus.


The most esteemed Charlie Finch would disagree who decidedly felt it was his Worst Show ever and contained none of the signature elements of his work.



"To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perception." - RI




Then on the Dark side of the Moon - Barbra Gladstone - WTF - note to Allora & Calzadilla if your going to bother to build yourself into a piano PLEASE come up with something less TRITE then Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Saturday Night Fever

Some bold moves from Peter Doig at Gavin Brown's enterprise away from his representational work.



Over at Metro Pictures David Maljkovic Is covered in the same thin dust of modernism as Disney Worlds tomorrowland,.








just for fun a pic. that Anthony Haden-Guest brightened my day with, he is so witty this is going right over my bed.

Cookie Cutter Monster - Zeitgeist on a Fri. in Chelsea.

Sunglasses by day... by way of Cookie Cutter Artworld.

The Zeitgeist work of 09 so far is in a group show at Leo Koenig "Born in the morning, dead by night,". that focuses on the difficulty of maintaining stability in life and the tension between the vitality of hope and the disappointment of failure


Shapes from Maine also captured the Chelsea moment at Friedrich Petzel Gallery - in a more self reflexive way. This eye catching arrangement of shapes lets it all hang out - Just another shape just another Art show just another day. And recalled the MFA dictum "If you can’t make it good, make it big. And if you can’t make it big, make it red if you can't make it red make lots of them".


And back in the BK - they stripped the facade of my fav. brunch spot Moto and it is lovely to the soul !

The Secret saved my life!, (Amazon Review Art)

I want to post this to make sure it lives on the interwebs for ever:

3,776 of 3,821 people found the following review helpful:
The Secret saved my life!, December 4, 2007
By
Ari Brouillette Please allow me to share with you how "The Secret" changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of "The Secret" is the science of attracting the things in life that you desire and need and in removing from your life those things that you don't want. Before finding this book, I knew nothing of these principles, the process of positive visualization, and had actually engaged in reckless behaviors to the point of endangering my own life and wellbeing. At age 36, I found myself in a medium security prison serving 3-5 years for destruction of government property and public intoxication. This was stiff punishment for drunkenly defecating in a mailbox but as the judge pointed out, this was my third conviction for the exact same crime. I obviously had an alcohol problem and a deep and intense disrespect for the postal system, but even more importantly I was ignoring the very fabric of our metaphysical reality and inviting destructive influences into my life. My fourth day in prison was the first day that I was allowed in general population and while in the recreation yard I was approached by a prisoner named Marcus who calmly informed me that as a new prisoner I had been purchased by him for three packs of Winston cigarettes and 8 ounces of Pruno (prison wine). Marcus elaborated further that I could expect to be raped by him on a daily basis and that I had pretty eyes. Needless to say, I was deeply shocked that my life had sunk to this level. Although I've never been homophobic I was discovering that I was very rape phobic and dismayed by my overall personal street value of roughly $15. I returned to my cell and sat very quietly, searching myself for answers on how I could improve my life and distance myself from harmful outside influences. At that point, in what I consider to be a miraculous moment, my cell mate Jim Norton informed me that he knew about the Marcus situation and that he had something that could solve my problems. He handed me a copy of "The Secret". Normally I wouldn't have turned to a self help book to resolve such a severe and immediate threat but I literally didn't have any other available alternatives. I immediately opened the book and began to read. The first few chapters deal with the essence of something called the "Law of Attraction" in which a primal universal force is available to us and can be harnessed for the betterment of our lives. The theoretical nature of the first few chapters wasn't exactly putting me at peace. In fact, I had never meditated and had great difficulty with closing out the chaotic noises of the prison and visualizing the positive changes that I so dearly needed. It was when I reached Chapter 6 "The Secret to Relationships" that I realized how this book could help me distance myself from Marcus and his negative intentions. Starting with chapter six there was a cavity carved into the book and in that cavity was a prison shiv. This particular shiv was a toothbrush with a handle that had been repeatedly melted and ground into a razor sharp point. The next day in the exercise yard I carried "The Secret" with me and when Marcus approached me I opened the book and stabbed him in the neck. The next eight weeks in solitary confinement provided ample time to practice positive visualization and the 16 hours per day of absolute darkness made visualization about the only thing that I actually could do. I'm not sure that everybody's life will be changed in such a dramatic way by this book but I'm very thankful to have found it and will continue to recommend it heartily.

Is There Anybody Out There? - Encounter at the End of the World.

If ur feelin a) cold b) isolated 3) heavily teched out and a bit insane +howeves+ part of the space time continuum - have i got a movie for you! Werner Herzog's Encounter at the End of the World opened tonight at the Tribeca Film Fest to my great joy.. "Are penguins gay? im trying to make conversation" - warning *spoiler* My new hero is the penguin who walked off from rationality, community and sanity . And I always dreamed that under the ice was the sound of Pink Floyd :)

Domestic Delusions: 303

Most of the shows openings in Chelsea this weekend rang irrelevant. A few works at both 303 gallery's were worth noting and a second return. My post Christmas hangover interest was piqued by Mary Heilmann's crazy kitchen floors by way of stumbling stock market lines paintings and the domestic dystopia of Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager Cloud Cuckoo Land installation.
I attended the opening yesterday fresh from the limited TV viewing on the treadmill at the Piers. The show I settled on for half an hour was pitching how to by government foreclosed homes to flip. Images of the Kitchen emblematic of the "American Dream" are a horse of different color in 2009.

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler - Gago - gone?

Fun Fact #1 - 2009. - Reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest & snarky gentleman, co-author of Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula and Artnet's Bad Boy Critic Charile Finch currently hold a wager as to if MEGA dealer Larry Gagoisan will have his doors open in spring or not. The stakes? why a 1000 dollar dinner at Nobu of course.

Wild Wild West. Stephen Sprouse/Liz Renay

Art, Artifact, Artisan... Pilot, Performer, Plaything..

Openings at Mr. Deitch's Projects ignite me. Tonight perhaps by a first glimpse at an Impecably curated and shockly gentle rageaholic dichotomy between oldtimey drag and the height of futuristic fashion - (underscored by an over heard mentioning that he is "more kinky then all the trannies in the room combined"). Or are The Projects simply the best spot to meet up with old friends who have "not gone out in years". Uptown - Downtown... whateves, Artword from your trans euro express, rock out with your cock out magic right down to your True Colors your timeless - shine on you Crazy Diamonds.

Nice `N Easy

"The evening got off to a strong start. John Currin's 1999 ``Nice `N Easy,'' depicting two nude young women, went to an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $5.46 million. The seller was Los Angeles television executive Dean Valentine. Currin's previous auction record of $847,500 was set at Christie's International four years ago with a painting of two men making pasta." - Nov. 12 (Bloomberg)

Kehinde Wiley - "Down" and out of the closet at Deitch

न्य आर्ट बुक फेयर - ओं यौर कनेस्स boy

METROPOLIS APOCALYPSE (L. E. S. Riot Era Artists 1988-2008) in commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Tompkins Square Park Riots

will edit down video and post asap.. lovin the Genesis P-Orridge.

Shoot to Thrill: Doug Aitken / Deitch's Projects Aurel Schmidt & Kembra Pfahler

The inaugral exibition in 303's 21st street space, Migration by Doug Aitken is the stand out show of the season. Facades are one of Doug Aitkens strengths. The signage on the front exterior of the building leads the viewer into Mr.Aitken's anxious neuroitic enviroment.

Projected on three billboards the images range from urban landscapes that complement the screens to displaced animals pacing pastel, faded and dated motel rooms. A close up shot of a buffalo pawing and printing carpet the color of my childhood memorys is particularly griping. Up for another month Migration alone is worth the trip to Chelsea.






Jeffrey Deitch brings together the doped up sexual idenity conflicted work of Aurel Schmidt and similarly effected Kembra Pfahler from Karen Black. I admitedly have an affinenty for Art about Art. Schmidts impecably rendered instantly recognizable drawings rift on the the heavy handed bluechippers Dekooning and Morris Louis. These magic eye kaladeiscope afterparty floor pieces act as pop critic on paper. In the front gallery Kembra's personal rear end works self described as "a new inverted golden mean" both refer to Karen Blacks famed Performance piece "Wall of Vagina" and rib at the formal qualities of Yves Klein. It made me recall a lecture where a critic stated that Klein clamed never to have touched the women that were his medium, and then trumphantly presented a slide where Kleins finger graced one of the nude forms.

Aurel Schmidt

Morris Louis

Aurel Schmidt


Dekooning

Kembra Pfahler making a new inverted golden mean

Yves Klein

Kembra Pfahler geared up..

Me! this is what I look like now come say Hi!

back on the horse... whatz up bitches.

hey there - 2 hours later and i have logged back into blogger... and that is half the battle... taken a little breather & washing away the sins of the summer. lookin forward to being back in the saddle this season. For those of u who e-mailed me big thx... sorry i had not logged into this account for a few months. All is well that ends well ! Ill be picking up a new camera when I get back to the city and checkin ya all out soon.

.. and so it begins.

nab - 2008

im in Vegas for Nab 2008... hit me up if ur round. - otherwise hope to jump back on the Art train asap. IN HD.

- e.

nowhereman... ABOVE THE LAW

Hi, thx everyone who wrote to me about where ive been... its been one manic monday to worken for the the weekend - with so many balls in the air there has been no time to reflect. Its not all together yet so this will be brief. - OH I started making Art again - will have 2 drawings and a video piece in this show yes - DLF disco liberation front. In between hit the pool and steam room at the chelsea piers.

I got my VIP pass in the mail for Scope NY - so look for me at the Tribeca Grand For the Opening night party.

Darling I don't know why I got to extremes! - HAPPY 2008 !!!!!

HAPPY 2008 !!!!!

So if you ran into me already on my jaunty glitter rampage.. you will already know that 2008 is about :
A) A new attitude - ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES.. 2008 is about ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES and giving up a false sense of control. screw it give it to me ;)
B) 2008 is a great number, phonic and aesthetic! its like a number you can jump in bed with - just look at its sexy sleek curves - in comparison to say 2007 just look at it! NASTY and sharp and stupid and looks AWFUL on those glasses...- say it out loud! two-thousand-seven, NOW two-thousand-eight - it has a certain phonic ring.
C) i want you all to remove Gnarls Barkley Crazy from your i-pod and add - BIlly Joel - I go to Extremes ( please see mov clip inline - its just audio now working on imagery now...)
c) That i had no New Years plans other then going out alone with
1) A glitter dress
2) A bottle of booze
3) My new attitude

so my new room mate that fate thru to me (well nick who is moving to new orleans for a full ride program in video - ((i gave him the assignment while i was out of town most of the month to replace himself with someone who would make me happy if he wants his security back... )) is french and bitchy - AND has his education in training corporate managers - we love him.

2008
2008
2008!

Call me a joker, call me a fool
Right at this moment I'm totally cool
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel like I'm in the prime of my life
Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast
I don't know how long this feeling will last
Maybe it's only tonight

Darling I don't know why I got to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens
And if I stand or I fall
It's all or nothing at all
Darling I don't know why I got to extremes

Art is Dead - long live Art - Disco is Dead - long live - Disco.

Finalend just left a few offerings and IM'ed this pick. Every sunset is a new dawn.

See you in the New Year. I think im going to be bar backing at the same Gay Bar we end up EVERY holiday - drop us a line. (i think i may dye my halloween costume black and work it as sweeney todd).

Carousel of Progress

more to come - BEST Disney Moment Ever!.!.!..!...

Carnivalizing the Carnival - The Mallification of Disneyworld and a Merry Christmas to All :)

"Fitzkee starts by denigrating the current state of magic, saying it is old-fashioned. Though published in 1943, this statement contains an enduring truth. All entertainment is or is about to become old fashioned. "

Steve Martin - reflecting on "Complete Discussion of Audience Appeals and Fundamentals of Showmanship and Presentation" in his Biography Born Standing up. Mr.Martin picked up this volume while serving at his first gig in the Illustrious Main Street Shop shop at Disneyland.

Disneyworld's The Magic Kingdom in Orlando is a replica of LA's Disneyland creating a sort of Baudrillard Simulacra to the second power. In Florida we are twice removed from our synthetic history however afforded greater physical and developmental freedom. The walled garden of Disneyland had its own urban & Archiectual Dreamscape limitations. Walt could only afford to develop his properties so far. In Florida Walt Disney used various dummy corporations and cooperative individuals to acquire 27,400 acres (110 km², 43 mi²) of land. His masked marauders Ayefour Corporation (a pun on Interstate 4) & RETLAW which spelled backwards is WALTER amongst others were a part of the Florida Project creating the future footprints for 5 attractions - The Magic Kingdom, Epcot, MGM, Animal Kingdom and Downtown Disney.


It was my childhood nostalgia for a world where constantly rotating mechanisms first whirled me into my love of technology that brought me back to Walts world for the past 5 days. The "Magic" of "The Magic Kingdom" is a time folding tesseract where one can travel in complete safety between the wildest regions of the world, from the rooten tooten west to the deepest jungle only to be whisked into the realm our most loved on screen/storybook friends and villains.

One knows when they have reached the highest possible level of respect in Disney's world because they will find themselves embodied in an Anamotronic Form. The most effective being in Epcot's America Pavilion "The American Adventure". My dream is to have drinks with Baudrillard and Andy Warhol in its hallowed halls (or at least have it created in robotics) . The American Adventure is a sort of updated and Pop version of the "Hall of Presidents" . It is worth noting that in the Hall of Presidents the audience cheered for Anamotronic JFK and Anamotronic Clinton where Anamotronic Bush was met a heart felt mixture of boos and claps. In the American Adventure the audience earnestly mouthed the Americanrific speeches along side our robot friends while moved to tears - beautiful. Over in Epcot Ellen reminds us that the only non-renewable energy source is our MINDS. Nevermind oil. I found myself swept up in nostalgia with those areas of the parks that remained untouched.

I hope John Waters has a Patent on his "It's not just television... it's smellivision!" because the concept materializes from The Animal Kingdoms Bugs life theater to the truly awful Stitch's Great Escape interactive films.

The immensity of the situation really hit on a brief stroll thru Downtown Disney This self touting "Shopping Extravaganza" held an almost 1:1 relationship to stores found on 42nd Street in Manhattan. And included a gallery with works ranging from whimsical crafts and posters with Andy Warholia to "Original" Murakami Toys.

Is Magic of Steve Martins Mainstreet shop reinventing itself to come from being old fashion? is this a product of the homogenization of the Dreamscape of Modern Man to escape the terrors of contemporary society - or rather a fulfillment of the Warholian dictum:
"I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting."?

Either way within the heartbeat of Disney's safe repetition of the consumer magictacualar dreams pulses a place where the reality is the caravel, genuine human experience is augmented by the simulacrum and real emotions are triggered by the spectacle.

Merry Christmas - And Happy Holidays Everyone!



See you in ARTWORLD 08 !!! Come find me I brought back Mickey Mouse Lollipops for everyone.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

"I want you in my room...face to face...I'll be waiting in my favorite place...I want to be your dog..."

Art Basel: Miami Beach.. A thousand miles for you... Art Fairs: the new Museums or just a pretty packaging?

iconic Glen Rubsamen - no sign of tech. just palm trees in this Fair.
Xu Zhen’s, ShanghART Supermarket in earlier install.
Koons "Rabbit" - from Macys day Parade
Koons "Package" - from Made in Heaven series


My old school video camera did not make it past the guards into the fair - and they did not change shift over the day. :( - to the pleasure i am sure of number of Artworld members who did the "Duck and Cover" when I entered the booth - oh well watch out next year. ;)

Art Basel's 07 (Miami) convention center's terrain has the topography of 4 Armory shows - side by side. Over all Miami is a very "user friendly" fair - the works forming a labyrinth of shinny polished surfaces as far as the eye could reflect. While a certain retina blazing self portrait of a black letter "I" on a white ground made multiple appearances.

(i recalled many a moon ago jerry saltz mentioning in his class - "that as a rule of thumb the viewer reacts well to reflective work & seeing themselves" as a segway to a a slide of Jeff Koons rabbit. I was out of town this thxgiving but heard the helium filled version made quite a splash at the Macy's day parade this year sparking to the wonder of child and consumer alike, clearly the masses have put aside the 'made in heaven debacle - or remain perhaps blissfully blinded by the cool refection of 23.6 mill - a pretty package indeed)

Today I was left with an equally exhilarating and exhausting feeling from the potpourri of attention grabbing/sustaining devices employed by the Basel Art fair which make it virtually impossible to keep ones bearings. With nothing left to the wind, the most intentional well thought out moments of the fair were the multiple examples of "bad (brat) boy" contributions ranging from Mr Carpenters "Die Collector Scum” to the commonly uncommon Oliver Payne / Nick Relph's tongue in cheek mall displays of Ash Lange. On the same well planned page was the not so brutal art brut works of Mr Messe easy to digest and lined up all in a row.
Marketing device and content jumped right into bed when "Art Kabinett" invited 22 galleries the opportunity to present curated - slightly sadistic exhibitions (my fav being Daughters of New York Dada).
Art Nova offers attractive rates for showing the latest works of their Artists - keeping up with its own mission statement of "promoting young Art". Conventions of labeling the work ranged from novel length large wall texts to Go-Go's minimal approach. Art Basel: Miami, offered discounts for class trips, audio and other guided tours. The Kenneth Whiley's had a deeper layer of dust then the one from the auction a few weeks earlier.

The most stand out work was Xu Zhen’s, ShanghART Supermarket - a Chinese convenient store with nothing but the air filled packages bringing to mind Duchamps Paris Air, - Art bubble? + the China/US Effect? - in Xu Zhen’s -- 'Dada in reverse' store the package is made to order or is the order made to package ?


Duchamp's Paris Air

item from Xu Zhen’s ShanghART Supermarket

For now the market is the meaning - this adds up to one thing - a veracious appetite for More! More!...More, more, more!

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Preimere

Go see it! see it on the big screen - I predict Oscar, - by far Mr.Schnabels greatest work premiered at the Ziegfeld theater last Wed. - a Royal event. The Diving Bell's compelling narrative is forwarded seeped with an forwarded thru moving Art reference. The film avoids pretentions and communicates on a multi-teared level. Each Frame is composed with the scale, grace and simplicity of one of Julians paintings.
In an early scene where our protagonist eye is sewed shut from his POV one can not help but understand the film as a reverse study of the most famous work of early French avant-garde cinematic surrealism - Un Chien andalou. When Jean-Dominique Bauby is in his "favorite place" a solitary view over the ocean and a light house I was over taking with the feeling of the first time ringing Schnabels bell while looking over queens from PS1's bell tower. A true step forward for Art Film.

I will fill this post in with images from the opening when I get the photos off of the camera - JS was wearing purple crushed velvet pj's and flanked with friends and family here are the Red Carpet shots.

Based on the following:

the Diving Bell and the Butterfly (for the meaning see diving bell and butterfly) is a translation of the French memoir Le scaphandre et le papillon by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition called locked-in syndrome.

Salem's Lot's

Hit the brunch today for the following at Christie's.
Selections from the Allan Stone Collection, New York, 12 November
Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New York, 13 November
Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Sale, New York, 14 November
Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Sale, New York, 14 November


so this photo of my old roomie is from around May, 01, 2006 - where the painting is in Kehinde's studio. The following photo is from Lot 0356 note the Provenance: Acquired from the artist.


The state of the Market is one of an ever closing gap between the Primary and Secondary Market. We are at the Razors edge of Media.

My camera is still out of charge - so need to put up halloween pics and stuff. been really buzy.

- e.

Rip...

been busy and sick - will update more later.


- Jesus told me
- Jesus

That the world would be against me
- If he changed
- Changed my
My
Name

OMG shoes.

Omg - winters coming - boot to shoe time - i love these.

urs fischer @ gabos - holein it up

This show is endlessly entertaining to me - i could watch the Artworld descend into a hole all day. Peter Brant is just plain hot.

kenny sharf@Kasmin Gallery // CocoRose @ Deitch

Kenny Sharf was ever the gent at Kasmin Gallery with his special brand of sexualized snacks & CocoRosie Bring Freak Folk Fun to Deitch as a part of Pipe Dreamz A Revelation.

it is imperative to examine the new art which deals with our lack of closure

Chicks and Checks, in a somewhat blur... This weekend openings are brought to you through the filter of by my 4 year divorce from my Gay husband. Some how both Mr. Richard Prince's Gugg debutante ball, Spiritual America and Neumann's The Incomplete at the The Chelsea Art Museum openings hit a chord.

"We live in an incomplete world.
Therefore it is imperative to examine the new art which deals with our lack of closure."

indeed.

2007 NY Art Book Fair

We had a blast at the opening of the 2007 NY Art Book Fair. The bottomless Martinis and Mr.Waters run in put me in good cheer so i picked up one of j-morrison's snazzy book bags to hold my new shinny copies of "This is a paper Trinket For You To Wear - by David Shrigley and Feedback Television Against Democracy by David Joselit. The Fair in the Dia center at 548 West 22nd, From 28-30th - bet you don't walk out empty handed.

Richard Prince's Spiritual America at the guggenheim 2nite :)

guess that show, artist, sceanster, collector - chelsea gallery images from past few days - will write captions when i get a chance

Derelict Deitch and Dan Colen - on the nest - "its just phonebooks crumpled up"

This highly mannered conveniantly you tube served video makes no particular point about the Nest.. other then underscoring my thoughts on its relationship to earlier "Nest" pieces as well as my faith the Artworlds ability to make TV. Im going to take a long shot here and guess that they think that this grainy black and white approach lends some form of 70's conceptual credit to the "Nest". And that this is further reflected in the rather tongue in cheek nod to Dia Art Foundation funded New York Earth Room. Don't be afraid of your glamor Artworld its 2007 - live in it.

Interesting that this "Artnet TV" is served by YouTube.

images from past few days.. will write later going to hit up some shows now

Clayton Patterson & Raymond Pettibon: smack is back

Hit up what is now Kinz, Tillou + Feigen last night for the opening of Clayton Patterson's the Lower East Side. I was only familiar with Clayton's embroidered hats in the past and was pleasantly surprised by what turned out to be a rather captivating multi-media show. Attendees ranged from Taylor Meed to Carlo McCormick - i didn't have my camera on me nor did i venture to the back room - so ill add more to this later. Prob to what roomer has some form of Champagne Saturdays that beg a return to view in full a documentary on Patterson and the Lower East Side titled "Captured" by Dan Levin, Ben Solomon and Jenner Furst.

Hitting Zwirner's Raymond Pettibon show tonight - a timely 911 opening entitled - Here's your Irony Back.

Art Parade 2007