RICHARD PRINCE / CHARLIE FINCH – it rhymes !!!!
RICHARD PRINCE RETROSPECTIVE/GUGGENHEIM/PHOTO COURTESY: supertouch
STRAIGHT OUT OF BIG MOUTH KNOW IT ALL .. and artlovers-critic-at-large: SIMON CERIGO who reports:
“W.R. says ‘CHARLIE FINCH doesn’t even go to 50% of the shows he writes about.’
He didn’t go to the RICHARD PRINCE opening – I know, because I WAS THERE.
He thinks if he already knows about the artist, he knows the whole story – he figures he already has baggage about the artist – and that becomes the story – so it doesn’t matter what the show is like.
With RICHARD PRINCE – ‘SPIRITUAL AMERICA’ – that way of thinking proved to be a fatal flaw.
The show is so good, so elegant and so concisely edited, that not only does it look good – but everyone is re-assessing the artist’s production, and redefining (upwards) his influence on the scene around him, from its early days.”
O..K.. – IF YOU SEE ANY PART OF THIS HAS BEEN DELETED – esp. the W.R. quote – you’ll know SIMON GOT INTO TROUBLE, with his big mouth again . . . & . . if you have to ask who W.R. is – you didn’t read it here. – !!!!
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM NEW YORK
~RICHARD PRINCE/CHARLIE FINCH |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 10th, 2007, 12:33pm
CERN just sent in 2 links to YouTube clips:
Spacern Animation – Mural by Space and Cern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QlUTzqwbHA
TROPICALIA in FURS – Mural by Cern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0e0WCTSCfk
~YMI CREW/CERN/SPACE/YouTube |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 10th, 2007, 12:17am
JAMIE O’SHEA’S supertouch has an amazing series of posts that have just gone up . . . .
art by SPACE INVADER
UK///LONDON’S SPACE INVASION
Jamie O’Shea writes: “French artist SPACE INVADER finally brought his 8-bit style street art indoors when his first solo show in London, “Space Invasion & Bad Men part II” opened at the tastemaking LAZARIDES GALLERY …” with plenty of knock-out photos of the exhibition, by SICHI – check it out!
art by RON ENGLISH
LONDON///GOOD THINGS COME IN “SMALL, MEDIUM, AND LARGE” PACKAGES…
Jamie O’Shea writes: “Lucky London shoppers had the rare chance to take home fresh pieces in a trio of sizes from some of their favorite artists when ELMS LESTERS’ innovative, “Small, medium, and Large” group show featuring art by ADAM NEATE, ANTHONY LISTER, DALEK, DELTA, FUTURA,
JOSE PARLA. MARK DEAN VECA, PHIL FROST, RON ENGLISH, SPACE INVADER, STASH and WK INTERACT opened on Friday nite in Fogtown.” above photo/Small, Medium & Large by RON ENGLISH – check it out!
art by R CRUMB on SUPREME BRAND T SHIRT
SPEAKING OF R CRUMB….
Jamie O’Shea writes: “…In what must be the most out-of-let-field collab of 2007, art-minded skate brand SUPREME has teamed up with the certainly street fashion oblivious R CRUMB to produce this limited run of shirts & hoodies bearing panels from the Zap Comix artist’s 80’s era work. We can’t say ….” – follow the rest of his thinking & see more shirts..
art by MATT FURIE
LA///THE CRY OF LOVE…
we really jumped.. when we saw this post – HOMEBOYS TAYLOR McKIMENS & MATT LEINES HIT LA – BIG TIME !!!!
Jamie O’Shea writes: “Hollywood’s underground art hotspot NEW IMAGE ART was awash in clor when the “In Full Cry” group show curated by MATT LEINES & TAYLOR McKIMENS opened its doors this past saturday nite. Featuring an eye-popping array of big and small works by MARK BELL, MELISSA BROWN, ETHAN HAYES-CHUTE, JAMES BENJAMIN-FRANKIN, MATT FURIE, LEIF GOLDBERG, JOSEPH HART, JASON HOLLEY, MISAKI KAWAI, JEFF LADOUCEUR, MATT LEINES, TAYLOR McKIMENS and RYAN MROZOWSKI, the exhibit represented a closely-affliated group of East Coast artists whose faux-naive styles often mask their technical virtuosities…”
with a great series of pix of the artists, guests, & work: including home town faves TAYLOR McKIMENS & MATT LEINES; a great shot of a MATT LEINES “tiger”; 3 incredible “tied-up” pieces by TAYLOR McKIMENS; 2 knock-out MISAKI KAWAI offerings; 6 “The Fury of MATT FURIE” images; and a photo of MEGAN WHITMARSH with her new baby – and yes, Megan cut off her braids !!! – check it out !!!!!
RICHARD PRINCE RETROSPECTIVE at THE GUGGENHEIM
and last, but not least, JAMIE O’SHEA agrees with the art lovers assessment by SIMON CERIGO
– the RICHARD PRINCE – “SPIRITUAL AMERICA” retrospective at the GUGGENHEIM, CHARLIE FINCH notwithstanding – is for TRUE BELIEVERS !!!
POSTED SEPTEMBER 29, 2007 (& now in his ‘previous entries category’) Jamie O’Shea writes:
“Here at Supertouch, we don’t usually dip too deeply into the whole uptown museum scene, but RICHARD PRINCE’S amazing retrospective, “Spiritual America”, that opened this Friday at the Guggenheim Museum is one of the city’s best shows in years. … FOLLOW HIS THOUGHTS, HERE !! – with 12 additional large scale photos of the exhibit by DIANA HONG.
ALL IMAGES – COURTESY: supertouch
~supertouch/SPACE INVADER/LONDON/R CRUMB/LA-IN FULL CRY/RICHARD PRINCE-GUGGENHEIM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 9th, 2007, 10:38pm
we first come across: ERIK FOSS and JAMIE O’SHEA !!! at Little Cakes in 2004 !!
above, left, ERIK FOSS, of FUSE GALLERY & LIT BAR with, right, JAMIE O’SHEA, then Chief Editor of JUXTAPOZ, now running: supertouch – “a blog-type thing from Jamie O’Shea” – a cutting edge web journal with an international reach and a super edgey eye.
at the ‘Yes in the Age of Wood’ opening – a FALL 2004 Little Cakes show that featured the work of DAVID ARON and CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, Little Cakes Little Gallery, East Village, Sept 27, 2004
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
artlovers was then posting in artnet – here’s the original post/11-17-2004 – ERIK & JAMIE didn’t make artnet editor WALTER ROBINSON’S final cut !!
~ERIK FOSS/JAMIE O’SHEA/1st ENCOUNTER/2004 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 9th, 2007, 9:14pm
I first saw JAPANTHER during an opening in front of DEITCH PROJECTS a few years ago. They played this really frenetic set, out of the back of a small truck, which I coined as “Hard-Core Sing-Along” – since a lot of the kids in the audience sang along … I don’t remember the art show they played at, (it was Swoon), – but I’ll never forget their rock-on, fuck-on performance. The songs were short, fast, catchy, and full of NICK CAVE guttural screams .. into … their signature, handmade microphones-manipulated-from-old telephone handsets.
All this is caught seamlessly on their newly released CD – Skuffed Up My Huffy. My favorite songs are the johnny rebel ones, like: Challenge, River Phoenix, and Tender…. but, all of the songs have a low-fi hard-core charm that is undeniable.
So, all you never-die teenagers, grab this CD, a case of beer, and have a wild, arms akimbo party,
. . . singing . . . Fuck-ON!, JAPANTHER.
Artwork: by JAPANTHER / IAN VANEK (drums & vocals) & MATT REILLY (guitar & vocals)
. . .”we are an in-house art directed band” – I.V.
JAPANTHER, Skuffed Up My Huffy/MENLO PARK RECORDINGS RELEASE/SEPT 11/2007
www.Japanther.com
www.myspace.com/official Japanther page
artlovers archival photo/IAN VANEK/2004
artlovers archival photos: IAN VANEK & MATT REILLY at AU BAR/SPRING 2005
(you can see a red telephone handset/microphone, just above IAN VANEK’S head
in this 2005 photo of him, at the drums, at Au BAR, in the WEST VILLAGE.)
~Japanther |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews | By Simon Cerigo | October 9th, 2007, 5:05pm
we first come across – IAN VANEK !!! at Little Cakes in 2004 !!
above: left, PATRICK HENRY of NIGHTAMERICA and right, IAN VANEK of JAPANTHER,
at ‘Yes in the Age of Wood’, the FALL 2004 Little Cakes show that featured the work of DAVID ARON and CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, Little Cakes Little Gallery, East Village, Sept 27, 2004.
that is DAVID ARON’S work behind them.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
artlovers was then posting in artnet – here’s the original post/11-17-2004
IAN VANEK wasn’t a big enough celebrity to make it past Editor WALTER ROBINSON’S chopping block !!!
~JAPANTHER/IAN VANEK/1st ENCOUNTER/2004 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 5th, 2007, 3:23pm
the new JAPANTHER CD – ‘Skuffed Up My Huffy’ – has just !! been !! released.
UP-DATE: TUES OCT 9, 2007:
note: JAPANTHER does all their own artwork – ..”we are an in-house art directed band” – Ian Vanek.
also, IAN writes …”JAPANTHER did all of the art and took all of the photos on the Skuffed record. Mainly me Ian Vanek. tags and building them in to cities has been the theme of my work for the last year. 99mm zine is evidence of this.”
99mm zine seems to be a very hard core Metal Music site out of Russia. (?)
here’s the only link we could find – 99mm
it’s bizarre – it must be it – it’s major metal music – but couldn’t find the Japanther connection ?
artlovers’ music critic – SIMON CERIGO – reviews Skuffed Up My Huffy next week !!
scheduled to post: TUES – OCT 9, 2007
MATT REILLY, guitar & vocals, JAPANTHER, ‘LOVELY DAZE’ issue #1 AFTER PARTY,
ICU BAR, WEST VILLAGE, Oct 22, 2005
IAN VANEK, drums & vocals, JAPANTHER, ‘LOVELY DAZE’ issue #1 AFTER PARTY,
ICU BAR, WEST VILLAGE, Oct 22, 2005
MATT REILLY, of JAPANTHER, incognito, with a book by his fav artist – ARKITIP,
‘LOVELY DAZE’ issue # 1 – book launch, PRINTED MATTER, Oct 22, 2005
ALL 3 PHOTOS – NANCY SMITH, NYC, Oct 22, 2005
here’s the original artlovers report/that the pix first surfaced on:
Nudes or DUDES/2006-01-17
JAPANTHER has a great website: www.japanther.com
here’s their myspace page: www.myspace.com/officialjapanther
~JAPANTHER/Skuffed Up My Huffy |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 5th, 2007, 11:27am
the card for: ‘Wide Open’, McCAIG & WELLES, BROOKLYN
‘WIDE OPEN’ – CURATED BY: R. NICHOLAS KUSZYK – with 100 artists !! including:
SWOON, RICH JACOBS, MAYA HAYUK, JAPANTHER (!!!), STO, KELIE BOWMAN, CYCLE, CORNDAWG, RAMBO, JOHNSTON FOSTER, PORTS BISHOP, MIAMI ICE MACHINE, USAISAMONSTER, . . .
. . .”It’s a benefit for – Food Not Bombs – and there are like 100 rad artists in the show.
It’s gonna rule!” – press release. (I bet !!)
‘WIDE OPEN’ – McCAIG & WELLES GALLERY – 129 ROEBLING ST, SUITE B – BROOKLYN
SEPT 8 – OCT 7, 2007 – !! – last 3 days – !! – SUNDAY OCT 7 – IS THE LAST DAY – !!
HOURS: TUES-FRI 11-7PM, SAT & SUN 12-7PM
UP-DATE: TUES OCT 9, 2007:
MARTIN BROMIRSKI of the blog: anaba / social sculpture ?
covered this show, with interesting text, & photos:
read his POST: ‘Wide Open’ at McCaig-Welles/POSTED: OCT 05, 2007
don’t miss the 1st NICK KUSZYK link, and check out photos of work by:
PETER SUTHERLAND, KAI VIERSTRA, PETER CORRIE, TUNDE ADEBIMPE, & Chip7 ….
thanks for the great link, Martin – much appreciate !!
UP-DATE: WED OCT 17, 2007:
CAUGHT UP WITH NICK KUSZYK & PORTS BISHOP at the recent CINDERS OPENING:
‘MY PRAYER FOR YOU’ – NEW WORK BY STO – OCT 12, 2007
from left: PORTS BISHOP and NICK KUSZYK
from left: NICK KUSZYK, PORTS BISHOP
from left: NICK KUSZYK, PORTS BISHOP
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, CINDERS, OCT 12, 2007
McCAIG AND WELLES GALLERY
~WIDE OPEN/McCAIG & WELLES/last days!!/up-date/anaba/NICK KUSZYK & PORTS BISHOP |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 5th, 2007, 11:05am
the card for: ‘HANDPLANT’ – ALLYSON MELLBERG & JEREMY TAYLOR – PHOTO COURTESY: CINDERS GALLERY
‘For those about to rock’, fabric, homemade ink, egg tempera, Allyson & Jeremy, $1,200
‘Head Planter’, fine china, china paint, 24k gold, Allyson, $200
‘Head Planter’, fine china, china paint, 24k gold, Allyson, $300
‘Bunny Seedling Planter'(s), fine china, 24k gold, china paint, Jeremy, $75 ea.
‘Is This What You Eat?’, fine china, china paint, 24k gold, Alyson, $250
‘Hans Christian Anderson’, cut paper, silkscreen, Allyson, $100
ABOVE 6 PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, CINDERS GALLERY, Sept 27, 2007
‘HANDPLANT’ – ALLYSON MELLBERG & JEREMY TAYLOR
SEPT 7 – OCT 7, 2007 – !! – LAST 3 DAYS – !! – SUNDAY OCT 7 – is the LAST DAY – !!
CINDERS GALLERY – 103 HAVEMEYER ST – BROOKLYN – WILLIAMSBURG
HOURS: FRI 2-8PM – SAT 12-8PM – SUN 12-7PM
ALLYSON MELLBERG and JEREMY TAYLOR currently live and work in Charlottesville, VA.
Generally speaking, Allyson makes the figurative human pieces and Jeremy makes the animal depictions. They both collaborated on the show’s card, and the big fabric animal sculpture on the floor – ‘Friends of Mine’ – 2nd image/top.
… the eerie atmosphere, despite the gentle subjects, & the ‘monochromish’ coloring results from the fact that – “all materials are natural and non-toxic: homemade walnut ink washes mix with squid and spinach inks..”
The little red ‘measle dots’ on some of the works, (see card/above – 1st image) refer to the toxicity of the environment gradually affecting the young and most innocent earth habitants.
more pix on the gallery website.
CINDERS GALLERY
~HANDPLANT/ALLYSON MELLBERG & JEREMY TAYLOR/CINDERS/last days!! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 5th, 2007, 9:33am
– caption reads: “And now I’d like to sing a song about this guy I blew last night . . .”
ALL IMAGES – RICHARD PRINCE PAINTINGS – BARBARA GLADSTONE 2005
ARCHIVAL PHOTOS BY: NANCY SMITH
TAKEN AT: ‘RICHARD PRINCE / APRIL 30 – JUNE 18, 2005’,
BARBARA GLADSTONE GALLERY – CHELSEA, NYC, June 15, 2005.
SIMON CERIGO BEGS TO DIFFER WITH THE RECENT “DISPOSABLE ART” TRASH ASSESSMENT – CHARLIE FINCH – JUST POSTED ON ARTNET – OF THE NEWLY OPENED RICHARD PRINCE RETROSPECTIVE AT THE GUGGENHEIM . . . . . .
SIMON CERIGO, artlovers-critic-at-large – a man of few, but, well thought-out words, writes:
RICHARD PRINCE’S retrospective at the GUGGENHEIM is a great show despite the overbearing ‘hipness’ that pervades this elegant conceptualist’s art objects.
Though I have been a fan of the joke paintings since the early 90’s – I have also noted his relentless self-promoting and career moves. But seeing this big & diverse survey of his work, so well organized, and hung beautifully, changed my mind about the value of his aesthetic position.
Even though I am not totally convinced by the ‘Nurse’ paintings – (WALTER ROBINSON’S appropriation of 50’s pulp illustrations in the early 80’s was more effective) – the ‘Marlboro Man’ photos made me a believer.
RICHARD PRINCE – ‘SPIRITUAL AMERICA’ – SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
SEPT 28, 2007 – JANUARY 9, 2008
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
BARBARA GLADSTONE GALLERY
~RICHARD PRINCE/SPIRITUAL AMERICA/GUGGENHEIM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Simon Cerigo | October 4th, 2007, 3:35pm
