Have no idea whether this post will begin and end in a puddle or a pier/pyre. I just got inspired to juggle notes again by my new internet friend. Katy writes such great lyrics, rather: she sings the real from her puddle or her pier.
I am still tryin' to shake whatever $&@* I have-so no Armory/Volta art fairs today. Eating loads of raw garlic. I moaned at this opening to an assistant and she said her mother is a nurse and she didn't know what was wrong [with her] either! and then I didn't feel so bad about the raindrops and kittens in my throat. Sara Gernsbacher initially created these works as frames for her photographs (which she hoped i'd never find on Google;). Well worth a peek. Franklin Parrasch Gallery is a huge supporter of Forrest Bess. They also welcome alien life forms. Nice not to be forced oftentimes always to hide one's fin....
I am pleased for so many people in the last week. Their talent, trust, does the word 'loyalty' still exist in the lexicon of today...? But: sir cinematographer Roger Deakins won his 1st Oscar on Sunday! He is now Roger A. Deakins. I was thinking of changing my name too to Andrew Spielberg Lucre. :)
i remember Mike Radford and Another Time, Another Place ...Stormy Monday...
btw- Defence of the Realm is a very...very.. film. I am currently unemployed and available as your alien film programmer..riffin' here but Alec Baldwin was doin' a Cambridge University special lecture thing (with his newborn as best critic;) and he asked, or rather the student film society 'head' asked and couldn't answer the like 'Godard' easy question.
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i should prob drop this line of pixels (not pixar): i can think of countless 'Lenny Bruce' jokes that are so relevant/contemp: is crazy.
so: 2 iguanas walk into Jay-Z's after party in nyc, sporting headwear baskets after their brains were frozen in 2018 Florida. They still don't remember why they r there...
a floor reflection of one of 7 large Jeff Koons' paintings Easyfun-Ethereal series which were first presented together at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin in 2000 and opening tonight at Gagosian 24th St NY. Mr Koons' dealer is nowadays Mr Zwirner. Does Gagosian own the copyright of a floor reflection? Just curious. {addition after the fact-Bumped into, quite by serendipity, a rep who clarified that Gagosian Gallery and Mr.Koons still had a 'relationship' that could include both past and future work.} So don't believe everything u read on...! And tonight (not this post tonight but in the future) discovered another very smart erudite humanoid who is an...ummmm..a radical connoisseur.
Photo: Andrew Lucre (that is what I saw btw, taken with my aging Nokia phone-tiny Photoshop light balance but no tricks)
ahhhh! take me back to crazy #45$(% induced gnomes named Henri Michnaux in Ohio. That's more Jim Jarmusch than me...let's get real. ..ummmm.maybe not, thinking too much may get one an an Oscar and then Gnome forbid ....Ibsen's Button-Moulder was always right....!
Caught the tail-end of today’s discussion with artist AA Bronson, on occasion of the recently released Ziggurat: General Idea 1968-1994. Aiding their semi-fictional “1984 Miss General Idea Pageant,” the ziggurat was a representation of progress, power, and success, repeated, coupled, and combined to express control through a basic form. The book consists of paintings that are fully illustrated in color alongside images of drawings, installation, sculptures, and other works that incorporate the ziggurat form, and is accompanied by a foreword written by Bronson and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
AA Bronson when asked of General Idea’s own use of ‘spectacle’ spoke of the “deadpan”. The spectacle they created and the spectacle that they destroyed cancelled out each other.
Still true today in so so many ways/forms...
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2018. The world's biggest 'Antiquarian Book Fair' and I had never attended! It was one of the most fun and exciting evenings I have had ever in NY (sorry AIPAD u r a close 2nd;) Thank you so so much for inviting me. I lasted the full 4 hours opening and only just touched the surface of almost every exhibitor. My IG post says it and HERE just a few wonders that caught my eye.
Just one fascinating conversation was with Nestor Masckauchan (Tamino Autographs). He was a bio-chemist interested in cancer research at Columbia University. One thing and another, he quit and followed his hobby. He seems a very very happy person!
At Liber Antiques they unfolded extraordinary pages documenting the last Sicilian auto-da-fé, "celebrated" on April 6th, 1724, which ended with the burning of two heretics. The detail is quite mind-blowing. "A nun, Sister Pietra Maria di Gesù, who refused to abjure her accusation that a confessor had solicited her for sex. Sister Pietra, the only person who refused to recant that day, was condemned for having given false testimony with malicious intent and sentenced to two years in prison and three years of exile." The 'pizza' food vendors ensuring everyone had good times on the bleaches at the 'cook out'.
How times have changed...
Spring/Break Art Fair is the only Armory Week art fair playing tomorrow Monday. Very mixed and always very fascinating. An artist who easily ‘knocks the socks off’ most conventional materiality sculpture (though would not exist without the greatest) is Alexander Reben. He uses Deep Dream software to create the video Deeply Artificial Trees inputting/re-working Bob Ross’ series The Joy of Painting and says this gave him an insight into what these algorithms are "thinking." Reben processed each video frame on either a VGG model on Keras or Google Deep Dream models on TensorFlow. The audio, on the other hand, is synthesized from a WaveNet model of Ross's voice and combined with portions of reversed audio. The result is a kinda AI LSD!
I do apologize for not getting to Scope and Independent (art fairs this year). Was a bit worried that if I collapsed in an aisle today (Sunday) you would call a medic (nice paid work n' they always will get it- did i go too far with that?) rather than a bottle of rum;)! The Gravy Train to Heaven- is that the new Ricky Gervais series? Can just see you with a stethoscope (well as you know my title was was Stethoscope to Heaven but middle-New Jersey...nah...just kidding).
As i saw nothing it is fairer to link to nothing. How olde worlde am i...
Did I mention NADA (yes on IG). Well there was more than that...:) ...
