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Nicole Eisenman, with proud parents.

***Nicole Eisenman and Arlene Shechet at the Tang!***


Tang Museum, at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. Sol Lewitt wall piece at left. Nicole and Arlene each have a solo show on the second floor.


Arlene Shechet with her work. Took some nice photos at her Elizabeth Harris show two years ago.


Museum 52's Matthew Dipple.

Anya Kielar at Museum 52, on anaba 8/1/09.
Joe Bradley and Sarah Braman at Museum 52, 5/28/09.
Sarah Braman at the Armory Show, 3/6/09.
Without Walls, at Museum 52, 12/22/08.


Joanne Greenbaum and friend. Joanne's show at D'Amelio Terras is up through October 31st. Francesca Fanelli at far right.


Artists Stephanie Gonzalez-Turner and Kadar Brock.


Admiring one of Nicole's fantastic paintings... love the cloud turds. I'll go back soon to spend more time with these paintings. She has a show at Leo Koenig opening at the end of October.

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James Kalm has been requested by School of Visual Arts' Communications Director Michael Grant to take down his Dave Hickey SVA lecture videos.

From yesterday's post -

"Dave Hickey on art (from about 8:18) - 'Art doesn't do any of the things that we expect of American creativity... you know what I mean... it just makes a bunch of Jews a bunch of money'. Was that a gaffe or a planned quip? Fuck. I thought the whole talk was a ramble. Oxygen... you know what I mean? Love the SS shadow bolt across the red curtain while he is at the podium smearing the Jews."

Maybe Jerry can have his Glenn Beck show at SVA.

UPDATE: Charlie Finch on Dave Hickey at SVA, Charlie Finch on Dave Hickey - Hickey the Phony - 7/2001.
UPDATE: Las Vegas Weekly profile on the sad sack duo of Hickey and Lumpkin, 3/26/2009.

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Guy Trebay on a bad experience with Takashi Murakami. Tate-shakai Murakami.

Dave Hickey on art (from about 8:18) - "Art doesn't do any of the things that we expect of American creativity... you know what I mean... it just makes a bunch of Jews a bunch of money". Was that a gaffe or a planned quip? Fuck. I thought the whole talk was a ramble. Oxygen... you know what I mean? Love the SS shadow bolt across the red curtain while he is at the podium smearing the Jews.

Katherine Markel on early Richard Prince.

Richard Prince on receivership, in 1982 - "Later, maybe, the receiver will be domestically located. In our homes I suspect. We’ll be getting subscription pictures over the cable. It’ll change the whole notion of what’s 'homemade'. It’ll he fun. It’ll be threatening too. A lot depends on who thinks they have control".... "The degrees between amateur and professional will possibly become quite indistinguishable. Anyway, they’ll be a lot more ripping off or at least a contesting of each other’s territory."

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Guy Ben-Ner at Mass MoCA. Eight films played large in eight spaces. It takes about an hour and forty-five minutes to watch them all (each is 10 to 20 minutes)... WORTH IT!

Moby Dick, 2000
Elia - A Story of an Ostrich Chick, 2003
Wild Boy, 2004
Treehouse Kit, 2005
I'd Give it to you if I could but I borrowed it, 2006-2007
Stealing Beauty, 2007 - the IKEA one.
Second Nature, 2008 - fox and crow
If Only It Was as Easy to Banish Hunger by Rubbing the Belly as It Is to Masturbate, 2009

If Only It Was as Easy to Banish Hunger by Rubbing the Belly as It Is to Masturbate is an adventure/comedy buddy movie starring Mass Moca Director Joe Thompson and artist Guy Ben-Ner as they track themselves by airplane, car, and bicycle while having a conversation mostly by reading from and referencing books like Around the World in 80 Days, King Lear, The Little Prince, Through the Looking Glass, Don Quixote, The Divine Comedy.

Thompson pilots a plane which crashes, then they get in a car - without putting on their seatbelts, Thompson driving - which crashes, then they get on a tandem bicycle with Thompson doing all the pedaling... until they arrive at a dead end sign at an empty dirt field. The borrowed literature conversation is friendly banter on issues of commitment, compromise, inevitability, purpose, mid-life crisis, and (divorce) contracts.

GET IT??- Christoph Buchel vs Mass MoCA


Guy Ben-Ner and Joe Thompson on a bicycle built for two, with Thompson doing all the pedaling.

Joe Thompson: I think we're going uphill now.
Guy Ben-Ner: No, I stopped pedaling.
JT: It's getting harder.
GBN: I said I just stopped pedaling.
JT: Start again.
GBN: Give me a reason to.

JT: Start pedaling
GBN: It's too late for that.
JT: You can say that again

Don't want to mislead anyone into thinking this piece is only an elaborately sly Buchel piss-take... it's more... I'm just sharing a layer which most people would never catch on to. When they get to the dead-end field one of them says "no circus here", and the seating is even recycled from the abandoned Buchel theater.

PLUS1: Mass MoCA has five other shows happening concurrently, including the must-see Sol Lewitt building.
PLUS2: Still waiting for the written decision on Christoph Buchel's appeal.

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WTF? The first "real" artist to show at Triple Candie in almost four years is former head of VCU painting Richard Roth? aka Dick Backscratch?

How did that happen? Did he move to Harlem? Oh I get it... Roth had Nesbett/Bancroft give the keynote address at the 2008 Southern Graphics Council Conference.

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Just recently found out that Ethan Greenbaum has been producing an online arts journal for two years... called ***The Highlights***(!)... can't believe I never heard of it. Make sure to check out the archive!!


Dushko Petrovich at Rachel Uffner, July 2009; Dushko had two good paintings in a show curated by fellow painter Roger White. Dushko Petrovich and Roger White publish Paper Monument.

(can't find a website for Dushko's paintings... check out what I posted to flickr and I can update later with something better).

Nancy Smith, artloversnewyork. Nancy's show at Other Music has been extended through the end of September.

Loren Munk interview with Victoria Webb. It's good, read it! Loren Munk studio visit.

Joanne Mattera opening at Metaphor 9/18. Focused on painting.