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no hands harvard.

Seventeen people, and not a single hand... maybe the photographer directed them to do that?

Diagnosis: Weirdos.
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Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton is suing an artist, stating "as an artist yourself, we hope that you recognize the need to respect other artists' rights and Louis Vuitton's Intellectual Property rights...".

This from the company that most recently collaborated with Richard Prince. Too funny.

Richard Prince on appropriating Jim Krantz's work for Marlboro - “No one was looking. This was a famous campaign. If you’re going to steal something, you know, you go to the bank.''

Read LV's initial cease-and-desist letter here.
Nadia Plesner's website.
Techdirt.
Eyeteeth.

UPDATE: this fashion blog brought up the Prince/Vuitton thing before i did.

ps - i still want these sunglasses.... they do not like it when you take pictures in their store.

make you laugh #1

check out the WORLD's FIRST google image search sculpture today. maybe it is different on different computers, but on this computer today it is pretty funny.

this is a fluid sculpture.

This edition is unlimited, temporary, site-specific, and unownable

Here is a google image search sculpture. Act Fast. This edition is unlimited, temporary, site-specific, and unownable.

(It's a mock Buchel)

doll couple

doll couple

Hoosick Rocks!!!

Hoosick Falls is doing a chair-ity auction of artist-painted rocking chairs... they are in all the windows, and inside shops.




Key Bank.


The blue one is by Roy Egg. He does everything eggs.






The seat says Protect Me From What I Want.


The back says For Grandma Moses.

It says Action Causes More Trouble Than Thought across the top of the front.




For Rent Fo Rent...

I'm excited about this auction... it's in October. All the money goes to cystic fibrosis and to help maintain an old house. There is a massive beech tree in front of that house, it's gorgeous.

Here is my Hoosick Rocks flickr set. Thomas Moses has one, but I haven't seen it yet.

Michael Hakimi, PLUS!

Michael Hakimi, at Andrew Kreps. This is a two-person show - with Ellen Gronemeyer, also good - but I want to post the Hakimi alone first.

The piece above is paper, the black is spray-paint, and I wasn't thinking of it as representing anything, but it's actually a stencil of a city-scape. Knowing that, I still read it first as form. I'm reading the positive space (which i guess is actually the negative space)... just liking the colors and hanging. If anything... I see it as a hanging robe, or maybe a bat form.

Interesting because it is a painting, a sculptural element, as well as the thing left-over from the making of another painting, possibly part of a performance... without the performance-relicness taking away from the individual objectness, the way that sometimes can.

He's got some other pieces - large, free-hanging, purply digital prints - that read as abstract (and could be paintings), but which also reference buildings and skylines... although not so much that once you realize it you lose the abstract reading.


Two small floor pieces are separate individual works, but placed under the wall hangings.

Twelve small coins on a small sheet of square paper, which you can see in the first picture posted, and six belts on a German newspaper. Maybe the coins and belts and newspaper are more city references? Something male? This show looks almost too good... too handsome, too well-designed.

Michael Hakimi shows at the Glasgow gallery Sorcha Dallas, as does Charlie Hammond and a number of other interesting artists.


That's my belt. I couldn't resist.

Art Basel: Stuffy's Photos!!! PLUS... where are they now???

Douglas Witmer sent me his Art Basel: Stuffy's photos! LOOK, this is it! The pieces on that first wall are me, Michael Lease, 3 by Drew Liverman, and Rachel Hayes. Check out all the booths!

I saw today that Drew has an EIGHT-PAGE spread in the current issue of Beautiful Decay! wow. PLUS, Rachel has a review in NYArts Magazine.

Oura Sananikone, Bruce Wilhelm, Travis Conner, Timothy Sean Johnston, Don Crow, Scott Eastwood.

Bruce has got a lot going on.... Don is back in Richmond for the summer.... Scott is where? Last thing I know is Scott made Boozefox with Drew and Jules, in Austin... and it LOOKS AMAZING... Travis is probably in a boxcar somewhere?

UPDATE: Travis RIP


Timothy Sean Johnston and Don Crow.


First wall - Drew Liverman, Travis Conner, Rachel Hayes, Barbara Tisserat.

Back wall - Scott Eastwood, Travis Conner


THE SIGN!


Drew Liverman, Tom Harte, Drew Liverman, Scott Eastwood, Travis Conner.


Don Crow, Scott Eastwood, 2 by me, Paul DiPasquale, Drew Liverman, Travis Conner, Rachel Hayes, Barbara Tisserat.

I think Paul is probably the only one here that has had a movie made about him..


THE STAFF!

Scott Eastwood, Travis Conner, Scott Eastwood.

2 by Tom Harte, Fiona Ross, Drew Liverman, Travis Conner, 2 by Michael Lease, Oura Sananikone.

Fiona just finished a residency in Ireland.

That is almost the whole show, only a couple spaces not shot. One artist, Michelle Arthur, isn't pictured here, these photos were taken at the end of the show and she had just picked up her stuff.

Jerry Saltz at Art Basel: Stuffy's!!! We are still waiting for the review!

RELATED: Secret Origin of Stuffy's.
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More POTATOES found!!!

YAY! I found more stuff from the Potato Year in my storage locker! Sometimes I am a little nervous posting OLD stuff... but they really made me laugh when I saw them again.


Star-Spangled Potato, 1989

It's a xerox of a potato covered in pushpins.


Normal Potato VS. Insane Potato, 1989


Celestial Potato, 1989

I used to be so weird at the supermarket with the potatoes...

Good thing I'm not weird anymore!


Two Potatoes - Two Worlds, 1989

Oops, I spelled "potatoes" wrong. It was made before Dan Quayle made the famous spelling mistake. One side says something like "He was the All-American Potato", the other sides says things like "He was a quiet potato", "a loner", "nobody ever expected anything like this to happen". I think I originally had this set flat with two potatoes on it...

I still need to figure out what happened to the potato mystery train, and some others. That was a really weird one...

The potatoes grew into the Humbertos. Humberto's brain was a potato. Actually... Humberto at one point eats a poison potato and dies; his soul flies away in the form of a potato.

But the torment continued...

RELATED: if you are fascinated by my potato work of 1989, go the flickr set to see the potato polaroids, texas potatoes, potato elvis, boxing potatoes.

kids on free sofa

Kids on the free sofa across the street from my undisclosed location... they are waving at the cars driving by.

punks!

Leslie Hall... Leslie and the Ly's

photo by Megan Leners.

Leslie Hall - performance artist, comedian, musician, painter (maybe former painter), curator, internet everything. Wow... she is awesome, like (b)ananartista... I am so impressed by these artists.

Gem Sweaters - here is the Gem Sweaters video. I think this is what set her on internet fire.

Willow Don't Cry - the gemworld!! don't interfere with her viewing passions! GOOD SONG!

LOOK AT THIS VIDEO!! Made by Ron Howard and George Lucas!!!

Myspace page with more music is here - the band is called Leslie and the Ly's. the photo above is from her myspace page, a fan/friend took it.

RELATED: Leslie Hall, Keeper of the Gems - on net neutrality. Peter Pan - on net neutrality. Tron Guy - on net neutrality.

(b)ananartista, Hans Heiner Buhr, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, the internet, Saatchi thing, Uber thing, PLUS

Hans Heiner Buhr, bad chicken arrives, 2007

Hans had a nightmare -

"I dreamed last night, that I sold a piece on Pulse. It was a photo-poster of a book reading tramp in b/w, what was a print and very popular in the former German Democratic Republic. I remember I just signed and framed that poster and it got sold in minutes for USD 16.000"


Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Shock of the New Shit/Art Shows Make Me Paranoid, 2006

Esiri is an artist in London... her paintings are full of details and stories, all of which are talked about on her blog.












(b)ananartista!!! Have you watched his youtube videos yet??? Okay, if you click on some of those it warns of "adult content"... but just do it... it's not explicit. Do it for the sake of humanity.

The internet is amazing... I didn't even get e-mail until 2001... how would I have ever heard of these artists before the internet??? One is a German living in Tblisi, one is in London, and one is in Italy; I "met" Hans on blogs, Esiri on flickr, and (b)ananartista through youtube.

I put some stuff on the Saatchi site... I had reservations, because there is just so much stuff on there it is overwhelming, but Hans is on it, Esiri is on it, and I'm already on the Artists Space site; neither site is curated/juried... what difference does it make.

I'm not on re-title, but re-title isn't free... although I can't figure out from the site how much it costs to join. I think I had an early chance to get on re-title for free when they were starting, but I stupidly didn't do it. re-title lists anaba, thanks re-title.

Uber is the newest one... this is LA based, and free... here is MY UBER PAGE. This site was complicated, for me... but I finally got it. You have a lot of control with this one... and it's kind of like myspace. Mark Creegan is on it, Carol Es is on it... we all designed our own pages. Glenn Kaino and Lauri Firstenberg are involved with it somehow.

Inliquid - this Philadelphia site is the first one I had my work on, before the other free on-line ones started up, but I'm off now.

I can't believe it's been so long since I made this first post on artist's websites....

It would be nice if the White Columns registry were re-activated, and was utilized. I think that was the only juried one.... just something small to shoot for. It was a first break for so many.

Deborah Kass, 1999 -

"White Columns is 'ground zero' for emerging artists at the moment," says Kass, referring to the well-known alternative space now located on West 12th Street in Manhattan. "They're always showing interesting work -- that's where we first saw Christina Mazzaluppo, Eric Parker and Karen Heagle. We own works by each of those artists, and they've all been seen in White Columns group shows or solo shows."

ArtReview blog VS. Artworld Salon

James Westcott's ArtReview blog on Myspace VS. Spiegler, Stewart & Szantsos' Artworld Salon

These are both interesting blogs, and I do like them both.... BUT...

Artworld Salon's Ian Charles Stewart on the ArtReview blog - "my view is that the MySpace product looks amateurish, functions poorly and may be rejected by the MySpace community for invading their space under false pretences."

Artworld Salon's Marc Spiegler on the ArtReview blog - "I’m not a MySpacer, but I’d hazard a guess that at this point they are pretty used to people hijacking their “community” for commercial purposes."

Yikes, it looks like the Artworld Salon guys don't exactly know what they are talking about. Isn't that called.. gossip? Not a good sign for a blog that only allows comments from fellow approved "experts" and claims not to be a place for gossip.

So, what does ArtReview on myspace talk about? Um, pretty much just art. Anybody, or at least anybody who has a myspace account, can comment on the ArtReview myspace blog.

So.. due to an unseemly combination of ignorance, hypocrisy, and pretension... THE WINNER IS ARTREVIEW ON MYSPACE!!!


on notice.

RELATED: on Artworld Salon last week, Ed Winkleman and commenters on Artworld Salon yesterday

(b)ananartista!!!!!!

oh man, he is so funny...
i thought i had made an okay painting salesman commercial, but then i uploaded it and saw (b)ananartista's.

he's italian. these are youtube -

1. for the sake of humanity! BUY IT!!! this is the commercial.
2. boobs monster hot cartoon
3. BECOME AN ARTWORK OF (b)ananartista®!!! take part of the greatest artwork of the world.

so good... music, drawings and videos, so funny. they are all short, like one minute.

Art Basel: Antarctica

Clyde Du Vernet Hunt

Clyde Du Vernet Hunt's strange statue outside the Bennington Museum. Abraham Lincoln considering naked woman and naked boy.


These pictures with the snow are the best... makes it even weirder.

HOT.

Noel Black: Sculpture Puncher Church Kicker

Sculpture Puncher. More Colorado Springs sculpture getting punched here.


Church Kicker. The horrible horrible churches of Colorado Springs getting their asses kicked.


Church getting whupped.

Noel Black's Blog.