TIM EADS – ‘THE TAXONOMY OF TRASH’
HEADS UP: PHILLY ARTIST – TIM EADS – WILL BE GIVING A PERFORMANCE TO-NITE – SAT APRIL 7, 2012 at 7PM
FAMILY BUSINESS GALLERY – 520 WEST 21st ST – CHELSEA, N.Y.
note: the gallery advises: BRING A PILLOW – THIS WILL BE BORING.
see: THIS IS TIM EADS
see: THE TAXONOMY OF TRASH
TIM EADS, APRIL 7, 2012, NYC.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
so, apparently his pitch to take over the world, or at least New York City, was a pop-up bubble in a pop-in kinda gallery – thing & by the time I strolled by – it was over. I was told the huge bubbles his pedal-powered bike-like contraption generated – wafted over the nearby High Line. well bubbles, better than cranes bearing 3 ton locomotives . . . is all I can say. the Empire State building to the mid-north was lit up like an Easter egg – definite the way to go. I also caught a glimpse of the BLACK LABEL tall bike crew tooling around Chelsea, terrorizing traffic, no brakes, dude, with SADUE in the lead, thick hardcore bad white boy Rastafarian locks flying back, in the light nighttime breeze coming off the Hudson River.
see: the FAMILY BUSINESS PRESS RELEASE regarding TIM’S “Plot for WORLD DOMINATION” and a cool photo of a bonafide Amish family using his pedal-powered butter maker !! Tim apparently hails originally from TEXAS. wouldn’t you just know it !!
TIERNAN ALEXANDER, Tim’s wife, accomplice and cheerleader. April 7, 2012, NYC.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING – LIT LIKE AN EASTER EGG. . . APRIL 7, 2012.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
~TIM EADS – HEADLINES FAMILY BUSINESS, to-nite. PIX JUST POSTED . . |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 7th, 2012, 1:46pm
‘FOLIO’ by 2-UP – OPENING TODAY – SAT APRIL 7, 2012 / 6-8PM
the show runs: APRIL 7 – 29, 2012
SOLOWAY – 348 SOUTH 4th ST – BROOKLYN
HRS: Saturday and Sunday, 12-5PM
SOLOWAY presents ‘FOLIO’ – an exhibition by the group 2-UP.
from the press release:
Over the past few years 2-UP has produced a series of poster publications. This will be the first group exhibition of the individual members’ work in a gallery space. The exhibition is structured in 2 parts: a free newspaper that dissembles into 7 double-sided posters, and corresponding works in the gallery.
Each participant has been given a 2-page spread of the newspaper publication. The only constraint beyond the format of the page is that each contribution exists in some relation to objects exhibited or events taking place at SOLOWAY. They may predict, document, or become materially incorporated into works in the gallery. In addition to the opening and gallery exhibition – there will be a closing event with readings and performances.
2-UP was formed in February 2010 as a cross-disciplinary group of artists working in visual arts, curating and writing. For each edition, 2-UP pairs 2 members to produce a double-sided poster, packaged in sets of 2. All of 2-UP’s activities are entirely funded by its members. 2-UP is currently participating in the Millennium Magazines exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. In addition, a survey of posters ‘This is 2-UP’, is on view at the Bowery poetry club, curated by SUE SCOTT.
Members of 2-UP participating in the exhibition are: COLLEEN ASPER, MATTHEA HARVEY, CHRISTIAN HAWKEY, CATHY PARK HONG, ZEREK KEMPF, BENJAMIN KRESS, NATHAN LEE, PAUL LEGAULT, JEN LIU, MORES McWREATH, ADAM SHECTER, JOE WINTER, and MONIKA ZARZECZNA.
see: THIS IS 2-UP
ABOVE: 9TH 2-UP EDITION / SECOND SERIES / 2-SIDED POSTER SET – A COLLABORATION by DOUG ASHFORD & CHIP HUGHES, IMAGE C/O 2-UP
~2-UP OPENING at SOLOWAY, to-nite |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 7th, 2012, 12:46pm
artist/photographer KEVIN KAY on the streets of Chelsea, New York City . . . April 4, 2012.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
first of all, congrats to KEVIN and his wife, SASHA on the birth of their first child, a baby girl, CAMILLE LUCIA, now approaching 3 months.
a native New Yorker, KEVIN was born in Brooklyn in 1974, and that is also where he currently works and lives. A self-described “urban hunter and gatherer” his work combines photography, video, painting, and found objects, with the end result quite haunting and mysterious, or as his website puts it: “a glimpse of an ephemeral world often described as . . from another world.” His camera of choice is an old Polaroid SLR 680, which was in common use in the early 80s. He often uses expired Polaroid film, though that might be the only option today ?
o.k. a little more info on that !!
KEVIN relates that he has a stock of expired Polaroid film, and that “he is constantly buying it from various different sources when it comes up.” He also has about 150 (!!) Polaroid cameras in his possession. Kevin notes that you can buy (fresh) ‘Polaroid’ film from the impossible project,NYC. Polaroid no longer makes film, but impossible “took over where they left off” . . . but, he prefers to use the older stock, for it’s ‘accidental’ ambience, and color effects.
KEVIN KAY has exhibited his work, in the US and abroad, most recently at the AIPAD Photography show in NY, and in ‘Food For Thought’ at the ROBERT MANN GALLERY, NYC.
you can check out, a sampling of his portfolio, here: kevkay.com
He has a wonderful, drop-dead sensual !! very haunting, very lyrical, very poetic, very color ‘play’ intense – 3 piece Polaroid work – in the upcoming BAM 2012 BENEFIT SILENT ART AUCTION, which commences next week, APRIL 11th, with the online bidding ending April 22, 2012 at 6 PM.
BETH RUDIN DeWOODY is this year’s honorary curator.
KEVEN KAY, Untitled ‘Nettie’, 2011. Triptych, Polaroid 600. 4.25 x 3.25 in. (ea.) in BAM – SILENT AUCTION 2012.
IMAGE: COURTESY THE ARTIST & ROBERT MANN GALLERY, N.Y. c/o Paddle8.
see: KEVIN KAY – BAM ART 2012 SILENT AUCTION – on Paddle8
see: BAMart / Eighth Annual Silent Auction
see: BAM / BROOKLYN ACADEMY of MUSIC
p.s. BAM is celebrating it’s 150th ANNIVERSARY – check it out !!
~KEVIN KAY . . . in BAM 2012 SILENT AUCTION |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 7th, 2012, 11:47am
1. first up:
THE NICHOLAS STEINDORF VIDEO PRESENTATION at ENTWINE – OPENING NITE PIX !! – JUST POSTED !! SCROLL DOWN . . .
JEREMY ALLEN of vogue.com, KATE CERIGO, graphic designer currently working at vogue.com, and NICHOLAS STEINDORF at ENTWINE – for an evening of Nicholas’s short video clips, presented by CoWorker Projects. APRIL 3, 2012.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
2. just posted today, FRI APRIL 6, 1 PM:
the MICHAEL SCOGGINS GALLERY TALK & PIX – FROM HIS FREIGHT+VOLUME EXHIBIT: ‘US AGAINST THEM’ / ‘The War Between the Classes’ !!
JUST WENT LIVE !! – SCROLL DOWN . . .
MICHAEL SCOGGINS gives a very fun & informative talk about his work, and his thinking !! at FREIGHT+VOLUME, APRIL 4, 2012.
yep, of course, that’s one of his pieces behind him . . .
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH
~ok lots of catching up to do !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 5th, 2012, 11:27am
MICHAEL SCOGGINS WILL CONDUCT A SHORT TALK FOLLOWED BY A Q&A ON HIS SHOW,
‘Michael L. Scoggins: US AGAINST THEM (The War Between the Classes)’
to-nite WED APRIL 4, 2012 starting at 6:30 PM
the show runs thru this SAT APRIL 7, 2012 – so this is a good chance to come see it – before it comes down.
FREIGHT + VOLUME – 530 WEST 24th ST – CHELSEA
NOTE: read that title again !! this is all about the war between the classes – the haves and have-nots !! not a war between the USA and anybody else. ok, got that ? though there seems to be some kind of referencing to the ‘red commies’ – so, I’m gonna ask him about that – to-nite !!
yeah, we know we are a war-like country. we’re also a war-like peoples !! plural, global. nobody escapes the ancient hard-wired survival genes, esp as some of us never got past the greedy lying sociopath sub-primal ones, aunt piggy – anybody ?
I know I got one – in my family !! ha.
you can see: a nice selection of works from the installation plus artist background & theory, here.
MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Red Sonja’, 2012. marker on paper, 84 x 66 in.
MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘America’s Favorite Drawing’, 2012. graphite, marker, prismacolor on paper. 67 x 51 in.
BTW:
that’s a very heavy-duty over-size roll of paper, he works on. not the everyday ordinary thin stuff you have on your desk, ha. that’s part of the illusion. part of the Scoggins – game plan. check out those dimensions, again: 67 x 51 in. which translates as: 5 ft. 7 in. x 4 ft. 3 in.
see: they have a nice run of gallery installation shots – on the website. – which makes that clearer !! the works are definite: 3D – as in sculptural !!
ABOVE IMAGES: COURTESY FREIGHT + VOLUME
a good-natured MICHAEL SCOGGINS gave a brief talk at his show, which is doing quite well, bye the way – this past Wednesday, April 4, 2012.
he is standing in front of his piece, ‘I Am A Man’, 2012.
MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘I Am A Man’, 2012. graphite and prismacolor on (torn) paper, 22 x 51 in.
MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Who’s on Top?’ 2012. marker, graphite, prismacolor on paper. dimensions vary as to how you decide to exhibit it. ($9,000. for the 2 pieces)
he began his talk emphasizing that his issue is with the fat cat corporate or ‘big daddy’ power trippers who are behind all conflicts – exploiting and dividing the masses around globe – who bear the brunt, and fight the wars (!!) of these eat’em up and throw them a bone once in a while – cutthroat dominators . . . MICHAEL said he grew up in the cold war decade – so that explains the ‘commie’ reference. it was pretty clear that there was a lot of thought behind the images, which therefore radiated a visual power beyond their child-like surface scribble. He also said he was aiming for a more ‘minimalist’ field in the work, itself – on a purely plastic or compositional level. mission accomplished.
detail, MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Who’s on Top?’
he also spoke a bit about how and when, in grad school, the lightbulb went off in his head to blow-up his notebook sketches . . . which sketches, as well as the seeds of all kinds of ideas, apparently he does non-stop, and has done so, ever since childhood.
he explained how he first makes several batches of the ‘sheets’ of lined ‘notebook’ or blank ‘sketchbook’ paper in his studio, cutting them from big rolls, and then carefully blue ‘lining’ the notebook or binder-like sheets, and cutting out the margin holes, etc, and then he works on the compositions. he also manipulates and bends the sheets in various corners, or other selected ways to further enhance the illusion of a ‘ruled’ notebook or blank sketchbook – page.
detail, MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Who’s on Top?’
in this show, he also ‘tore’ the sheets to resemble ‘scraps’ of paper, and in this case. most engagingly: flags.
one fun fact he re-counted was that his mother, who was an artist, saved all his childhood drawings, so he can still go back and consult with his younger self !!
and, yes he was into comics. in fact that’s where he thought he was heading when he was younger – to life as a comic book artist. (!!)
HANNAH HINDS stands beside a full page MICHAEL SCOGGINS’S piece – ‘Art is a Weapon’. (!!)
the piece is dated 2011, graphite and prismacolor on paper, 67 x 51 in.
($12,000.)
detail, MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Art is a Weapon’, get it ?
MICHAEL SCOGGINS with long time pal, and now wife, artist ALEX GINGROW. MICHAEL and ALEX both have advanced academic connections to the prestigious Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia.
behind them: MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Long Live the King!’, 2011. graphite, marker and prismacolor on paper, 67 x 51 in.
you can see Alex’s work, here: alex gingrow
and, YES, it friggin’ rocks !! – check it out !!
in the middle room: at left, a large wall-sized installation of smaller individually hand-colored silk screened pieces (ranging in scale/individual prices: $50, $75 & $150) that are adhered to the wall with velcro – titled ‘War is Good’, 2012 – and – the less politically charged work, maybe !! – at right, titled ‘Explosion Drawing #1’, 2012. marker and prismacolor om paper, 67 x 51 in.
detail, MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Explosion Drawing #1’.
note: how well he does the uniform paper ‘margin’ holes, and the ‘torn’ chads from where the paper ‘was torn out of the book’ – it’s easy to overlook that precision as you encounter the visual compositions . . . but this precision mimic-ing of torn paper, almost puts him into the class of sculptor, in my book !!
it’s also interesting to pause a moment and contrast the precision production – to the child-like lettering and draftsmanship – to the grown-up thoughts.
detail, MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Explosion Drawing #1’.
detail, MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Explosion Drawing #1’.
MANDY, AMANDA JOY BROWN, beside one of my fav pieces in the show, and I just don’t know why – but it rocks and rolls !! so drop dead funny, totally droll, and against the grain, I guess. really nice off-the-usual-color-chart hue, dead-on composition, and authentic format too. MONOPOLY !!
MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘Know Your Place’, 2012. marker and prismacolor on paper. 51 x 67 in.
originally from Texas, and visiting from Savannah, Georgia, you can catch AMANDA JOY BROWN, here: amandajoybrown.wordpress.com
we’ll give the last word to: MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘All-American Family XVII’, 2012. crayon and prismacolor on paper, 67 x 51 in. which hangs over the gallery’s front desk.
the back story: after Michael produced a series of tongue-in-cheek, see below, diverse (!!) American family portraits, circa 2007 – with him, stuck into the ‘inclusive’ groupings – collectors began to commission him to paint portraits of their real families. and yep, that is Michael aloft in the little plane. looks like his game plan, took off – in all respects.
a page from the past: MICHAEL SCOGGINS and his ‘integrated’ family !! and yeah, he’s the blondie !!
MICHAEL SCOGGINS, ‘All-American Family’, 2007. marker and prismacolor on paper, 67 x 51 in. Private Collection. Courtesy of ART VENTURES INTERNATIONAL . . . in the softcover catalog, ‘Michael Scoggins: Sic Semper Tyrannis’, 2008, CAD/CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER of VIRGINIA, which is available at the gallery.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~MICHAEL SCOGGINS TO GIVE A TALK – & – PIX JUST POSTED !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 4th, 2012, 11:42am
CoWorker Projects Presents Works – by NICHOLAS STEINDORF
TUESDAY – APRIL 3, 2012: 7PM to MIDNITE
at ENTWINE – 765 WASHINGTON ST – btw WEST/10th ST & GREENWICH ST, just south of W12th, WEST VILLAGE, NYC
see: map
A PRESENTATION of selected videos, including Superstition, Hey Jude, 52, and How to Disappear.
from the CoWorker press release:
STEINDORF’S videos make use of accessible subject matter to eliminate complicated signs and ask the audience to enter and ponder what happens inside it. The superficial qualities of these works disorient the viewer from the original image – encouraging further analysis and examination emphasizing experience through image, time, and formal experimentation. This selection of videos oscillate between recognizable pictures and abstractions.
NICHOLAS received his BFA from Columbia College in Chicago in 2009 and he currently resides and works out of Brooklyn, NY. His work appeared in various group exhibitions over the past five years including EX (International Arts Movement, NY, 2012), Sans (Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, 2012), Collection (The Arcade, Chicago, 2011), Indestructible Youth (Kunz Vis Projects, Chicago, 2010), Frame (C33 Gallery, Chicago, 2010), Regeneration (New York Center for Art and Media Studies, NY, 2010), and Venice Biennial Workshop Ancillary Exhibition (Venice, Italy, 2009).
CoWorker Projects is . . . the creation of former co-workers and friends YULIA TOPCHIY (a partner at Entwine) and JESSICA SAIN who previously worked alongside each other at GOFF+ROSENTHAL GALLERY and Entwine in New York City. CoWorker Projects find them co-working again to show weekly art videos in the downstairs lounge at Entwine, a full bar in the heart of the West Village.
The artists and the videos change weekly.
YES !!
I WENT TO THE OPENING & HAD A GREAT GREAT TIME. THE SHORT CLIP – VIDEOS WERE GREAT. THE SOUNDTRACKS WERE EERIE & AWESOME, TOO. PLUS, SOMETIMES IT’S JUST REALLY NICE TO LEAVE THE ‘TABLOID’ WORLD BEHIND & REACH FOR THE REALM of PURE ART, PURE VISION. PURE COLOR.
PLUS DOWNTOWN, SERIOUSLY WEST-SIDE WASHINGTON ST. – IS SO FUN – IT’S LIKE A CLUBBY BROOKLYN in MANHATTAN, NICE & EASY ON THE WEARY MIND.
OPENING NITE PIX – NICHOLAS STEINDORF – SHORT VIDEO CLIPS / Presented by CoWorker Projects – at ENTWINE, NYC. APRIL 3, 2012
JEREMY ALLEN of vogue.com, KATE CERIGO, graphic designer currently working at vogue.com, and on the right: NICHOLAS STEINDORF.
originally hailing from Wisconsin, Nicholas recently spent some time in Chicago, and is now based in Brooklyn.
you can check out more of his work, which includes paintings and prints as well, at: NICHOLAS STEINDORF.
the evening’s curators: YULIA TOPCHIY and JESSICA SAIN of CoWorker Projects.
coworker is such a ‘hot’ button word these days !!
as in . . MEGA MYSTERY: She says she’s got the winning MEGA MILLIONS ticket. Co-workers say she’s cheating them.
so much for office lottery pools.
MICHAEL FLEMING, who with his brother ALAN – are known as the FLEMING TWINS – a collaborating art duo, are also now based in New York.
They meet up with Nicholas at a residency called ACRE in Steuben, Wisconsin – last August 2011.
They currently have work up in an exhibit titled: ‘Game-On: SOLO’ at threewalls, a gallery space in Chicago, March 9 – April 20, 2012.
you can see more of their work on their website: Spatial Interventions
MARISSA PEREL . . is a performance artist, and curator now based in Brooklyn, NY. She is also a contributor to the PBS affiliated arts blog: Art21
you can see her own work, here: MARISSA PEREL
MARISSA PEREL, under that huge black shawl . . .
a drop-dead great temporary tattoo she acquired at the recent HENNESSEY YOUNGMAN curated – at FAMILY BUSINESS GALLERY opening !! FAMILY BUSINESS GALLEY, oft referred to on the street as the CATTALAN FAMILY BUSINESS GALLERY, (!!) is a pop-up space in the ANNA KUSTER GALLERY on W. 21 St just below 10th Av – operated by those fun guys: MAURIZIO CATTELAN and MASSIMILIANO GIONI.
see: FAMILY BUSINESS GALLERY
there’s some good, super lively coverage of the space on: what we like (!!)
p.s. more info on Marissa’s temporary tattoo.
it’s an art project that was conceived and carried out by CHRIS GOLAS, an artist working out of PHILLY (!!).
He also coordinated the Indian Food Truck and the spotlights . . .
JOSHUA RAYNER. we had a spirited discussion on the pros and cons of the proposed ‘hanging’ of the JEFF KOONS life-sized replica locomotion near the High Line. he’s all for it. and yes, he did make me re-think my position, a bit !! I dunno, maybe it’s a guy thing.
Joshua Rayner is currently a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies.
you can see his work at: JOSHUA RAYNER
. . . the comfy downstairs lounge at ENTWINE, where CoWorker is presenting their pop-up video series . . . with the NICHOLAS STEINDORF clips – being the first to be shown, that were made by a New York City-based artist.
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, ‘Superstition’, 2011.
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, ‘Hey Jude’, 2011
it kind of looked like an eyeball and a clock, with a tiny futuristic spaceship, here at center left, hugging the rim, as it travels around the orb. metaphors for space, time, travel, the human condition, and comparative scales – come to mind.
all the while accompanied by an eerie, yet subtle spaceship-like ‘white’ noise.
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, ‘How To Disappear’, 2011.
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, ‘How To Disappear’, 2011.
NICHOLAS STEINDORF, ‘How To Disappear’, 2011.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC. APRIL 3, 2012.
~NICHOLAS STEINDORF – presented by CoWorker Projects – OPENING NITE PIX – just posted !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 2nd, 2012, 11:10am
happy APRIL FOOL’S DAY !!
PHOTO: Image by JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS, DILLER, SCOFIDIO + RENFRO, and JEFF KOONS. COURTESY of Friends of the High Line. c/o NEW YORK TIMES
read all about it: ‘High Line May Mix . . .’, NEW YORK TIMES. MARCH 26, 2012.
they’ve got to be joking, right ?
UP-DATE: MONDAY APRIL 2, 2012
JEFF KOONS wants to hang a full-scale, steel and carbon fiber replica of a 1943 steam locomotive, weighing several tons – near the High Line park, so . . . no – it’s NOT an inflatable. and, no – not even a transparent one at that. too bad.
but for some commonsense – there goes the inspired respite of the High Line.
forget the swinging baby metaphor, it’s more like: take down a tree, and put up a parking lot.
(or, as they like to update it in Brooklyn: take down a Cinders and put up a nail salon.)
the Koons’ train that is – not the High Line, which is subtle and sublime, welding visionary design with function. all the while keeping it low-key enough to give its park goers true respite, delight, inspired greenery, and open vistas – which is the right direction to go – fast forward into the city’s future, while guarding it’s historic past.
. . . the last thing this city needs is a threatening, over-size heavy metal urban metaphor dominating the landscape, and upside down to boot … you done seen one too many Independence Day movies, Jeff. put it in the desert, or put a lid on it.
and enough with the hangings already, CATTELAN opened and closed the book, and most charmingly, on that. it’s not a genre. if you really want a train museum, take it down from that dumbest-idea-ever crane – and install it on a barge, floating off the Chelsea piers – and charge people a dollar and a half – to see it. and why replicate it, don’t they have any real ones lying around somewhere crying: help ? it’s so pumped-up artificial, conceptually backwards, not to mention basically uncrass, un-green, and really non-lyrical, what could anybody ‘crushing’ on it – be thinking ? so much so . . . one’s tempted to say, must be the money.
Koons might be thinking big, but it sure ain’t smart. whatever happened to gigantic hush puppies built on the thinnest of infrastructures – filled with flowering plants, once so ahead of the game, you look to be bounced off the tarmac. yo, keep it light, it’s the only way to hang, I mean fly !! . . . into the future.
UP-DATE: TUES APRIL 3, 2012
they’ve got be joking, TAKE TWO.
or: FILE UNDER – OOPS, DID I DO THAT ?
omg, does a little bit of art world joking invoke a thunderstorm these days, or what. who knew there were so many art world aficionados out there, beyond the usual suspects, like Williamsburg, Bushwick . . . and San Francisco ?
I mean seriously, I did just crow about having ‘radar’, an original ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ co-pilot – but I’d really hate to think these guys would pick up on such small ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’-like oneliners coming out of NYC, and what happened to artistic originality anyways ? you’re stepping on my copyright, dude.
oh man. if it wasn’t too sick for words, I’d be laughing.
“CHILLING: This bizarre announcement is appearing in several Arabic Web Forums”, is the caption under this image – published in the NEW YORK POST, on pg 31. today APRIL 3, 2012.
see: ‘THEY’RE BA-ACK – COPS PROBE SPOOKY QAEDA ‘THREAT’, by JAMIE SCHRAM, NEW YORK POST, APRIL 3, 2012
guess there is no joking these days – that’s the scary thought. you’ve got to ask yourself: is the New York City art world the last bastion of humor – ? there are some serious haters out there in the world, and I guess the sad conclusion is: don’t ever forget it.
on the other hand, I guess it’s fair to say, wiseguy – watch the rhetoric, it’s a tinderbox world, and the old rules are out whack with the ways & reach of the web ?
someone tell me this is just my imagination – please.
well so much for the power of an image. no, the hanging train was not a good idea. and apparently making fun of it – was not either.
and I don’t think it’s just my imagination.
so, time to re-consider art criticism ? how about freedom of speech ? how about giant suspicious hanging packages ?
no jokes – and no bullying . . . in the brave new internet world, we are gonna have to learn a new language: bland speak.
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC. no joke.
and I thought my biggest problem was having my hip hop graffiti artist pix – lifted by 3rd language websites, and re-published without my permission, no original source photo credits, and NO good way to resolve – now that’s copyright violation. and that’s the future for original content providers – that’s where web pirating is heading: into the void of global babel. you think it’s bad now, just wait. though apparently an image can still speak a thousand words.
guess it could be worse – I could be talking about the upcoming art ‘fairs’.
b-o-r-i-n-g.
or joking. is there no middle ground anymore ? nope, not that I can see.
~JEFF KOONS, no no no . . . & OMG, did I do that !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 1st, 2012, 11:05am
so, where are you now, ONDI TIMONER, the ONLY (!!) 2 time winner at SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, ever, with:
‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – winning the GRAND JURY PRIZE, DOCUMENTARY in 2009, and . . . ‘DIG!’ winning the same award, GRAND JURY PRIZE, DOCUMENTARY, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, in 2004.
‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, 2009 – WRITTEN & DIRECTED by ONDI TIMONER.
‘DIG!’, 2004 – WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY ONDI TIMONER.
LOOK NO FURTHER, FIND OUT RIGHT HERE: . . . and, yes it is !! – JAMES FRANCO as MAPPLETHORPE !!
ONDI !! SHE DIG! DONE DID IT.
Indiewire:
“ONDI TIMONER’S ‘MAPPLETHORPE’ starring JAMES FRANCO Tops Tribeca Institute’s All Access grants for 2012”.
The Hollywood Reporter:
“MAPPLETHORPE” in which FRANCO would play the artist who defied censors and died of AIDS in 1989 is to be the narrative film debut of ONDI TIMONER, best known for directing “WE LIVE IN PUBLIC”.
GREETINGS (!!) friends of Interloper . . .
It’s been a long time . . . over a year since we last filled you in.
In January 2011, we had a great trip to our snow-filled second home at the Sundance Film Festival, beckoned by the inimitable JAMES FRANCO who had just signed on to star in Ondi’s first pre-scripted actor film . . . James asked Ondi to film the installment of his ode to Three’s Company at the fabulous New Frontiers exhibition. Actor & director had an opportunity to spend time together at his 70s style bash.
JAMES rocked the Suzanne Somers look, and Ondi, well, she rocked Ondi.
JAMES FRANCO & ONDI TIMONER at SUNDANCE 2012 – PHOTOS COURTESY INTERLOPER.
INTERLOPER continues:
The long hours of writing … have passed and the result is a highly visual and detailed portrait of one of America’s most revolutionary photographic artists. Ondi’s next film is an intimate portrait of ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, a visionary whose controversial photography electrified the contemporary art world and immortalized a generation ravaged by AIDS.
A two-part love story, ‘MAPPLETHORPE’ explores Robert’s attempt to reconcile his homosexuality with his Catholic upbringing through his artistic expression . . . .
The feature-to-be was recently awarded a Tribeca All-Access Grant, where it swept the headlines in over 100 publications around the world. Working with her fellow producers, ELIZA and NATE DUSHKU and MILES LEVY, the Mapplethorpe team is moving full speed ahead towards getting their goal of shooting ‘MAPPLETHORPE’ this summer.
you can follow: Ondi on Facebook, here.
rocker PATTI SMITH and ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE in New York, 1970 – PHOTO: NORMAN SEEF/Artinfo
read all about it: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe Biopic Starring JAMES FRANCO…’ by GRAHAM FULLER/Artinfo
so, what I want to know is: WHO in THE WORLD – IS GONNA PLAY – PATTI !!!!!!!
~ONDI TIMONER, where are you now ? |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 31st, 2012, 5:23pm
yep, 12 years after the fact, cutting edge, NOT!! Artforum has finally caught up with JOSH HARRIS.
LORETTA FAHRENHOZ, “an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin and New York” . . . put JOSH HARRIS on her TOP TEN list – in the mag’s MARCH 2012 issue.
‘View from within JOSH HARRIS’S QUIET: We Live In Public, New York, December 31, 1999.’
Photo: DONNA FERRATO, c/o Artforum
that’s the photo that accompanied the article.
JEFF GOMPERTZ, now based in Thailand, designed and built that pod hotel structure – which housed 99 artists over the 2 week run of this huge million dollar+ blast-out millennium 2000 artist party / installation – which was open to the public 24/7.
that’s JUDGECAL, mostly know as CAL – the (now) deceased king of the Vampires, in the gas mask. and yes, that is the ubiquitous party crasher and long time art world fan, STEVE KAPLAN, bottom right. guess we’ll never stop hearing about how he made Artforum, from now on. he is wearing an in-house crew work shirt that had been silkscreened with a red ‘target’ by the, also now deceased, and much missed artist, MARK ENGER of EXPLODING SKY.
this the article’s text:
see: Loretta Fahrenholz, ‘Top Ten’, Artforum, MARCH 2012
in fact, QUIET does not QUITE just live on as: “clips of undressed, drugged-up subjects in baby pools humming off-key tunes (which) haunt the Web like howling ghosts of the prophecy QUIET performed.” In fact it became the ‘hard’ core of a widely, as in globally, acclaimed documentary: the notorious ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, (2009). Written and directed by ONDI TOMINER, the feature-length film kick-started its run with a huge huge win – a coveted SUNDANCE GRAND JURY PRIZE DOCUMENTARY, in 2009. ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ then went on to have its New York City premiere at the MUSEUM of MODERN ART/MOMA, in the spring of 2010, and was later honored by that museum by being formally added to their prestigious film collection.
After the huge Sundance win, it beat out “THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE” the heavily publicized doc on Anna Wintour and her Vogue magazine (!!), ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ toured the globe, hitting all the top film festivals – and every small indie one in between !! – all over the world – to much popular and critical fanfare, generating tons of international press and discussion. In fact, ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ still pops up in cutting edge film, technology, future science, social networking conferences, and art festivals. About the only place it didn’t blow up big, despite the MOMA premiere – was it’s hometown – NYC, and this likewise despite a huge series of glowing write-ups in the New York Times. don’t even get me started on that. you know, the same old same old – the mainstream art press here can’t seem to make the intellectual leap to the top 1%. let’s just say, 12 years after the fact in Artforum ? ghost clips on the web ? and leave it at that.
or we could re-direct back to Ms. Fahrenholz herself, with her ‘last words’ reference to “the prophecy QUIET performed”. what’s that they say, about the prophet never being recognized in his own homeland. some (Biblical) truths never die. and now you know why. circa 2012.
you can watch ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ . . . for free on Hulu, now !! . . . and it’s also out there everywhere else, from iTunes to Netflix.
you can also browse the film’s official website: WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – where there are some fun photos, including these:
JOSH HARRIS, at ‘QUIET’ – the artist/producer, money-man, and founder of ‘QUIET’ & the then evolving ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ concept, 24/7 surveillance projects – live streamed to the web.
when the web was not quite so much yet, circa year 2000 !!
ONDI TIMONER, the film’s writer and director – built up on a ton of archival footage of JOSH HARRIS, starting with ‘QUIET’ – his blow-out million dollar+ year 2000 millennium NYC downtown artist party, and on through the next 7 years – to bring his story to the big screen – as ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ – “the story of the most famous web entrepreneur you never heard of”.
ONDI TIMONER is distinguished by being the only filmmaker, so far, man or woman, in the entire history of Sundance to win the Grand Jury Documentary Prize – twice. She won with ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ in 2009, and, earlier in 2004 with ‘DIG!’ the story of the American-as-pie rock’nroll bands, the Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre – focusing on the rivalry/friendship between their two, super intense, frontmen: COURTNEY TAYLOR of the Dandies, and ANTON NEWCOMBE of the Brian Jonestown.
NANCY SMITH at ‘QUIET’.
yep, that be me and my kid in the pod hotel – in the top row of photos offered up on the ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ website. I wore many hats in the ‘QUIET’ game, and the JOSH HARRIS universe, just like I do now. artist, archivist, art world liaison, talent scout, production crew member, canary bird. you name it. I actually got a starring role in the film, because I’m the rowdy one – who got in a fight, and kicked out. what else is new . . .
I guess it was my MOEBIUS moment – come true, and as such, I’m super proud of the digital scars my photo seems to have accrued on the right side (photo-wise) of my brain – so graphic !! almost looking like for real: hi-tech in-brain wiring, but just the apt, but very accidental result of so much popular uploading, I guess !! but a good MOEBIUS-like metaphor, for the advance radar, I bring as a co-pilot. yeah, they used to call me “canary bird”, among other things. you know, like the small bird they used to bring into underground mines to advance signal, small, but essential issues, like: losing oxygen.
this image was used as the full screen poster for the film’s MOMA premiere – which was pretty freaky for me, sitting in the audience . . . how stunned I was. believe it.
the MOMA/MUSEUM OF MODERN ART programs brochure for JULY 2010 – with Josh’s photo on it, he’s in the public, communal, and very transparent shower at ‘QUIET’ !! it had super nice hot water, and tons of it, bye the way. and yes, it was on 24/7 live streaming surveillance – the whole 2 week party run.
I know for a fact – this MOMA brochure is Josh’s most prized possession – hey, why not !!
leave it to Artforum to come up with a brief paragraph on JOSH HARRIS, in an obscure Euro filmmaker’s top ten list – 12 years after the fact.
as the father of a ‘ghost’ clip, no less !!
well, I guess better late – than never.
the mothership comes in.
~JOSH HARRIS makes ARTFORUM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 31st, 2012, 10:31am
. . . so I see CHARLIE BROWN, oops I mean CHARLIE FINCH !! is in fine form . . . he wrote up quite the charming review of MELISSA BROWN’S painting show – at the newish KANSAS GALLERY – on artnet.
see: ‘GETTIN’ DOWN WITH MELISSA BROWN’ by CHARLIE FINCH on artnet/3-6-12
I did cruise by the show – and also found it to be – quite wonderful. though unlike Charlie I felt the underlying impulses and theory – did help the paintings – jump the landscape shark !!
see: previous post – ‘MELISSA BROWN: Palisades’
MELISSA BROWN beside her ‘Transport’, 2011 – in ‘Melissa Brown: Palisades’, Feb 25-March 31, 2012. KANSAS.
Oil, Spray paint and dye on canvas. 32 x 42 in.
detail, ‘Transport’.
detail, ‘Transport’.
MELISSA BROWN, ‘Parvenu View’, 2011.
Oil and dye on canvas. 48 x 48 in.
detail, ‘Parvenu View’.
detail, ‘Parvenu View’.
detail, ‘Parvenu View’.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC. MARCH 3, 2012
NOTE: this is the last weekend to catch the show, it’s up thru this Sunday March 31, 2012.
KANSAS – 59 Franklin St. in Tribeca, close to Canal and Lafayette.
~CHARLIE GETS DOWN – FOR MELISSA BROWN !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 28th, 2012, 10:57pm
