Alexis Rockman, Titanic (2019–20)
The truth about The Titanic that many still don't know.
Everyone's 'in-box' is inundated by notifications of art gallery virtual presences. Not at all complaining! The future has always had a way of manifesting itself in the present. Just read the great sci-fi writers. If someone had written this time last year that this year the world would shutdown due to a global pandemic, no-one would have taken that as truth let alone prophecy.
The Metropolitan Museum is still closed, but its 150th-anniversary exhibition, Making The Met is online (though not a virtual walk-thru).
The Met 360° Project
The Pace Gallery's next installment of online conversations (Thursday, Apr 23-5 PM EDT) brings together Lonneke Gordijn, co-founder of DRIFT, and Lee Ranaldo, American musician, visual artist, and co-founder of alternative rock band Sonic Youth, for a discussion on visual art, music making, and creative collaboration in light of the contemporary moment, creative reflection, and unclear futures.
The talks have been uploaded in the past with transcripts.
Tim Steiner, is a former tattoo-parlour manager from Zürich who offered his back as a living canvas to the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. He sits 'live' on a plinth at the MONA museum in Tasmania, Australia. The Delvoye exhibition, Tim, runs online until 30 April.
Ten great virtual museum experiences HERE.
Massimiliano Gioni and Peter Saul in conversation at The New Museum.
The Shed. Justin Hicks, Kenita Miller-Hicks, and Jade Hicks perform as The HawtPlates, sharing work created in conversation with Charlotte Brathwaite. In a social distancing experiment—with participants currently in Indiana and the Bronx—the trio will present a DIY recording session of selections from their song cycle House or Home: 690 Wishes, inspired by Toni Morrison’s novel Home and the experimental writing of French author Georges Perec.
Nothing that virtually new on the Whitney Museum website. But everyone awaits the museum re-opening to see the extraordinary Agnes Pelton show that opened and closed almost the same day in March (Covid-19 public ...). She's akin to Hilma af Klimt, one needs to get up close and personal to these artworks. No reproduction could possibly do them justice (well, maybe in 20years time). Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint streaming-on-demand documentary ($12) just released.
Sir Richard Branson's offer of a small loan seems very fair-minded. Yeah, he's a rich 'f***cker but….a nice one! Does anyone care to remember or even research all the shit that British Airways (in collusion with…perhaps…) perpetrated and threw at him way back when when he challenged virtual airline monopoly? All true. No conjecture. Of course that kind of 'horse play' has never occurred in AMerica.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/battle-of-the-airlines-how-the-dirty-tricks-campaign-was-run-martyn-gregory-reports-on-bas-dirty-1478010.html
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[disclosure] I seem to remember Virgin offered me a 1st class return, or something flight when they totally fffffd up! (A lot of mulla!) That was a very (very relatively) long time ago. And, believe it or not, I didn't redeem the flight/s. But when u r relatively rich, those offers…nowadays…any chance of redeeming my coupon Sir Richard? Joking! One small foot for a mouse, one small step…
I always resisted on 'hitting' on an airline steward/ess..although…one did hit on me- way after the none-event;) Disclosure;)
Hope Company makes it back to Broadway, in technicals then…WHAM!…
The cat that wanted to be a 'cat' admitted in a recent 'cat cast' that the great Stephen Sondheim gently advised her, remember the 'th'. It's kinda unthinkable, nowadays, that some Broadway cast recordings, went recorded as history as 3am! in the morning. Go figure. It's freaky, but I kinda know that is true…
And I know this is sentimental, I would argue sentiment, and that is forever real!
INT. MORNING.
Kitty is practicing her singing scales.
Kitty: THe cat in THe hat, THe cat in THe hat, THe cat in THe hat,
Andrew pops his head round the door frame.
Andrew: THe mowse in THe howse…
Kitty wiggles her 'eyebrows' up and down jovially.
Kitty: Is THere a mows in THe howse?
Andrew: (singing) Not while Kit's around.
Where is the cat with all the money, it’s cheap at half the price…;)
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