If someone could write me my bio* I would be greatly appreciated. I will send you a signed photograph of someone else, a la Richard Prince, but it will be more fun because it’s from me.
*I am having a difficult time referring to myself in the third person.
Laura Vere-Hodge of Christies walks along a gallery containing Picasso’s “Femme et Fillettes” (L) and “Flag” by artist Jasper Johns at the auction house in London.
LONDON.- Christie’s is honored to announce that it will offer at auction this spring in New York major works from the collection of the late Michael Crichton. Best-selling author and screenwriter, film director and producer, Crichton is renowned for his terrifying and sometimes controversial scientific thrillers such as The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, The Lost World, Rising Sun, and State of Fear, and for creating the television series ER.
Crichton is also acknowledged as a leading authority on the American artist Jasper Johns.…
Early in his career, Crichton developed a keen interest in contemporary art and friendships with David Hockney (who made a portrait of Crichton in 1976), Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. In the 1970s, Crichton also became a close friend and an avid collector of Jasper Johns. He was asked by Johns to write the catalogue for his major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1977. This publication and its revised and expanded edition are considered one of the preeminent studies on America’s foremost living artist. via…
Ryan McGinley Hannah Keamey, Freestyle Skier (Moguls), 2010
Ryan McGinley did an entire series of athletes from the Winter 2010 Olympics decked out in Rodarte clothing. See the rest here.
New magazine that I will lust over alert:
The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns - encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by ARCHIVE BOOKS and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands.
I don’t want to go to the website because I don’t want to see that it’s $30 an issue 2x a year. Alright, I just checked anyway and it’s only half that, if you subscribe.
Megan Feldman Anna and Michael at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center 2010
Look what Flavorpill did:
Even if you haven’t wandered up to 86th Street recently, chances are you’ve heard whispers of something unusual afoot. That something is courtesy of performance artist Tino Sehgal, whose ephemeral pieces rely on empty space and spectator involvement. One such piece in his current solo show at the Guggenheim, titled “The Kiss,” involves a couple embracing on the floor of the rotunda in a “changing, slow-motion, amorous” entanglement. We at Flavorpill love staging elaborate photo shoots in museums and decided to reinterpret Sehgal’s performance piece in five New York City art institutions: The Metropolitan Museum, New Museum, Rubin Museum, P.S.1, and the Brooklyn Museum.
I kind of did some kissing at a museum this weekend, but nothing was documented. I guess I will have to settle being not as cute.
And yes, it is that Anna and Michael.
Seen on lamp post down the street from my apartment. It is fairly high up, I am curious how long it has been there and how many people have seen it.
