Simon Cerigo

Simon Cerigo died Sunday.

he made every scene more interesting

Bye Simon

Simon in the hat with horns and lights, making Deborah Warner laugh, at Mark Kostabi's tv show.

Love to Nancy

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Maria Walker

Nudashank, at Art Blog Art Blog... Wed-Sat Noon-6PM... last day is this Saturday!!


Seth Adelsberger and Paul Wackers


Ted Gahl


Ken Weathersby


Maria Walker


The Artist Pat Berran!!!


berranimal


Alex Ebstein


who is this artist??? two strange and wonderful pieces side-by-side.

UPDATE: Sam Falls!!


Aw Shucks Abelow.

Abelow is Art Blog Art Blog!!!


Kadar Brock




Meridith Pingree

Meridith has a fantastic piece in a show opening at F+V 6/23.


Simon Cerigo


Maria Walker again... i love her DEAL WITH it!

Title This

Title This is a Game Show in which Celebrities compete to title Mark Kostabi paintings for Ca$h Award$!!!


David Coggins and Glenn O'Brien, two of the Greatest Minds in New York. David Coggins is a surly bastard, Glenn O'Brien really is cool as shit.


The live music accompaniment was GREAT... didn't get a picture but it was Rob Schwimmer on the piano.


Emcee Mark Kostabi takes a break from titleing to auction a painting to the audience. He got a woman in the audience to bid a thousand dollars for it...


but it wasn't enough so Mark took a boxcutter and slashed up the canvas...


he pulled it over his head and jumped all around.


Carlo McCormick.


Regulars claiming their spots in the audience.

The show was a double-taping. We did one and I thought it was all over but then a stack of pizzas got delivered and we all stood around and ate pizza and talked.


TV Party.


Audience.


Audience members this day included Deborah Warner, Simon Cerigo, Anna Rockwell, Eric Mitchell, Derek Storm, MORE.

At the end of each episode an assistant comes out with a STACK of dollar bills and throws a few at a time up over a fan. Dollar bills are flying all over the bleachers and everybody is trying to catch them. It was crazy. I got $eighteen dollar$ on the first episode!


There is an entire bookcase of books on Kostabi, and after taping he said we could take whatever we wanted, for free. I chose two monographs with the help of Simon Cerigo... one by Walter Robinson and one by Glenn O'Brien. A few people picked up the scraps of slashed paintings and Kostabi signed them also.

If you ever get a chance to go to one of these tapings DO IT! it was a lot of fun. Hard to believe I was in Chelsea.

A Kostabi-curated show at the New Museum would probably be more fun, generous, surprising and unexpected than the planned Koons one... is it too late to switch it up? Let Kostabi do the New Museum and let's have the Koons/Joannou show at Mass MoCA... that would be an awesome and unpredictable switch-up.

Israel

This old man was standing outside taking a photo of the gallery with his cell phone... he was taking photos up and down the street. I asked him why he was taking all of these photos and he said because he had lived here for 25 years and it was his first time back in 50 years.

I took this photo of Israel at 5 Rivington, where Thierry Goldberg is now. ArtLoversNewYork's Simon Cerigo and Nancy Smith had their studio and home here, from 1987 through 1996. Richard Prince's Spiritual America was at this address, 1983.

RELATED: Check out the Lost Art of New York map being created at 16 Miles of String.

anaba paparazzi

Kelli Williams!

***Art-Stars attend Barnaby Whitfield's opening at Stux Gallery***


Simon Cerigo!... of ArtLoversNewYork!!!


Debra Hampton!


Amanda Browder!


Barnaby Whitfield!