Tara Donovan Ripple1998
This is made of deconstructed copper wiring cut into little pieces. It’s like a freeze-frame pond at sunset.
hyde or die
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Lucien Freud has a new muse and she’s 25…
I can say with 73% certainty, that I would let Lucien Freud paint me naked.
Actually. Probably not, I would get too nervous.
Gisèle Freund Virginia Woolf (NPG P440) 1939
National Portrait Gallery is posting a new photography show Gay Icons (2 July-18 October 2009) is going to celebrate gay icons in our society and all of their contributions. In the art world, as I have encountered it, homosexuality is not an issue whether it be the artist, the artwork, the buyer, or the passer-by, but this is a really important step that the National Portrait Gallery is taking. Depiction of homosexual icons is a subgenre to general portraiture just as paintings of wildflower fields is a subgenre to landscapes, and while these photographs would be just as at home in another photography show or portraiture exhibition, it is nice to see them in contexxt to one another.
Last but not least, check out this list of celebrity curators:
Waheed Alli, Alan Hollinghurst, Elton John, Jackie Kay, Billie Jean King, Ian McKellen, Chris Smith, Ben Summerskill, Sandi Toksvig and Sarah Waters. via…
Helen Levitt, New York, 1988
Helen Levitt, who has been called “the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time”, died in her sleep at her home in Manhattan on Sunday.
Levitt grew up in Brooklyn. Dropping out of high school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. While teaching some classes in art to children in 1937, Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children’s street culture of the time. She purchased a Leica camera and began to photograph these works as well as the children who made them. The resulting photographs were ultimately published in 1987 as In The Street: chalk drawings and messages, New York City 1938–1948. via…
One reason Larry Gagosian may be hurting, beyond being out the $3 million in gold that he purchased for his postponed Chris Burden exhibit due to a court order involving alleged fraudster Allen Stanford, is that some of his associates and big spenders are turning out to be crooks. He’s lost at least this prince of a buyer. According to an article in today’s Globe & Mail, which details the clients (Bill Cosby, Tim Burton, Justin Timberlake, and 50 Cent among them) of the indicted Marc Dreier, the one-time legal honcho spent $10 million of his firm’s money at the Gagosian Gallery last year. (You can read Artnet’s report about Dreier’s art collection here.) via…
Well, this is some news.
Can I get into semantics though? I’m not saying $10 million is not a lot of money, it’s a boatload. But for someone who has 8 gallery locations, and counting, along with the staff, taxes and all the other expenses, a client who is spending on average less than $850,000 a month doesn’t seem like the loss they are trying to blow it up to be. Will it hurt? Yes, of course. Is it a devastation that is going to be the 2nd to last nail in the Gagosian coffin? Far from it.
I do find it entertaining how everyone seems so extremely eager to watch the Titanic that is Gagosian sink. I don’t understand why, the art loss alone would be tragic, and if you really want to break it down the jobs lost would be significant. Not counting the ‘gallerinas’ employed, but everyone from fabricators (Carlson) to the printers making the invitations that go out 5x a month would be significantly hurt.
Now excuse me while I step off of my soapbox now, it’s a little difficult to do so quickly in these heels.
Georges Adéagbo The Colonization and the History of the Colonized 2009
This is one of his “assemblages” that he has installed now at MAK. I am so into little precious objects. I can’t wait until I can get a new bookcase and I can pack it full with my little objects. It will be fun. Probably only for me though.
Here is my official, if tardy, review of the Streamy Awards, in bullet point form.
· It was really cool to be a part of something that I know is going to really matter some day, and to meet people who are a part of it. That being said, I recognized like 3 people, Joss Whedon, Neil Patrick Harris, and that chick from Dollhouse.
· One of the creator’s of one of the more nominated series asked me if I watched his show. I said “No. Since I ‘borrow’ my neighbor’s internet it doesn’t really bode well for streaming video, I’m sure it’s great though. I’ve heard a lot of good things (lie).” He laughed. I think he was humoring me. Then we laughed about Irish people and potatoes, and had a genuine laugh. It’s ok, he was British.
· It was really cold in the theater. Like, too cold.
· The award looks a little like an upside down octopus. Just an observation.
· The girls from the show Sorority Now screamed like sorority girls every time their show was nominated. Sometimes art imitates life. It also gave me bad flashbacks to college.
· Something really exciting might have happened in the end but I left early because I was cold and had to help set up the after-party.
· I got a t-shirt! Then I left the t-shirt in my friend’s purse.
