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Re: Ten Artists Who Should Make Work for ‘Occupy Wall Street’

sarahdouglas — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:53:04 -0000

Over twitter a reader has just pointed out that Marina Abramovic would also make a worthy addition to the scene down there. We agree heartily. And not just with her classic, endurance-test-type performances, but also with the staring contest at her retrospective in MoMA's atrium. That could be something over which cops and protesters could come together.

Re: Ten Artists Who Should Make Work for ‘Occupy Wall Street’

sarahdouglas — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:49:25 -0000

Yes, annon! Santiago Sierra is one we forgot. We may have fallen asleep briefly there, sadly. Please suggest others!

Re: Performance Artist to Give Live Birth in Gallery

sarahdouglas — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:28:11 -0000

JW: And the memoirs written by the first batch of children to be fully raised in an art gallery context would in turn support the ailing publishing industry. There would be the child who mistakenly ate the Janine Antoni piece made of chocolate; the child who smashed the Damien Hirst tank and will be forever haunted by the odor of formaldehyde, not to mention the sight of a dead shark fast swimming at it; the child who got lost for days inside one of Serra's Torqued Ellipses; the child who donned Carsten Hoeller's "Upside Down Glasses" and, well, never really quite came back. That last memoir would be called "The Upside Down Child" and it would sell well into the millions of books. Then, there would be the movie rights, which would be especially lucrative for the child who as a toddler emulated some of Marina Abramovich's more dangerous performances.

Re: Performance Artist to Give Live Birth in Gallery

sarahdouglas — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:03:00 -0000

And just last month we were reading this from that woman who got her privates tattooed by Damien Hirst for the cover of Garage magazine: "Not one single person can ever say they gave birth through a Damien Hirst piece of art. I can [if I ever give birth]." Birth through art, and now, birth as art. It's kind of exciting that giving birth is becoming part of the whole art thing. As everyone knows, it's been reported elsewhere recently that birth poses "tension" for certain galleries with large numbers of women on their staffs, what with these women giving birth all the time, and the whole maternity leave thing. What seems like an obvious solution based on this performance thing and the Hirst tattoo thing is to just incorporate birth into the whole art business. Galleries can have birthing wards that double as performance art theaters (this could be part of the solution to the nation's health care crisis!), and isn't it apparent that a whole obstetrical arm to art-making, or at the very least art-tattooing, is already in gestation? These are exhilarating times indeed, exhilarating times. For art. And birthing. If I can't be there for this performance, I'll expect to see it in reproduction.

Re: Barbara Kruger: Slogans that shake society

sarahdouglas — Mon, 09 May 2011 01:03:08 -0000

"I know he's a complicated guy, we all are". Wrong. Some of us are complicated gals.

Re: Also, Keith Gessen?

sarahdouglas — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:57:58 -0000

You could always resort to, "The word intellectual strikes me as odd. Personally, I've never met any intellectuals."

Re: year in review

sarahdouglas — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:04:15 -0000

here's a bit of absurdity for you. from artnet.com, where you can link to an image of the artwork in question:

http://www.artnet.com/magaz...

VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIAN ARTIST
Russian premier Vladimir Putin is entering the art market with his debut painting Pattern (2009). The folksy, Chagall-esque image depicts a window with curtains bearing a red "Ukrainian pattern," looking out onto a snowy night, and is featured as part of a charity auction in St. Petersburg put together by artist Nadezhda Anfalova. The auction is set for the 200th birthday of Russian author Nikolai Gogol, and all works in the celebrity sale -- including paintings by local governor Valentina Matviyenko, opera singer Anna Netrebko and rock singer Sergei Shnurov -- are done on "overcoat cloth," to commemorate Gogol’s famous story, The Overcoat. According to the Daily Mail, Putin’s Pattern is reputed to have been "improved" by Anfalova. "Of course Putin's picture will go for the most -- the buyers look at the name," she told the paper.

Re: Look in the puddle, Narcissus!

sarahdouglas — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:41:41 -0000

hi brown!

here are the dsm's criteria for narcissistic personality disorder, via wiki:

DSM Criteria

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:[1]

1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique
4. requires excessive admiration
5. has a sense of entitlement
6. is interpersonally exploitative
7. lacks empathy
8. is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
9. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Re: Keith Gessen Blog - The problem with video art has always been… TV,...

sarahdouglas — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:51:23 -0000

http://www.moma.org/collect...

Re: spy mag.

sarahdouglas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:48:06 -0000

I think it was a bit later than Spy, but wasn't the Adam Moss magazine 7 Days quite good? Wasn't around for very long... But wasn't it in that same vein? When I was doing research for a profile of an art dealer recently I came across some things in 7 Days, and they were sort of Spy-ish and very well written and entertaining.

Re: policy shift

sarahdouglas — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:18:31 -0000

Policy shift should be that all puppy photos are changed to photos of Oleg Kulik, who only bites Swedish curators.

Re: Keith Gessen Blog - In the comments, Sarah Douglas suggests that Chris...

sarahdouglas — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:33:55 -0000

Thank you, Youtube, and Keith. Though I might add the following as a Jackass progenitor. I like Dennis Oppenheim's work, but this one has always struck me as a bit, you know, sort of dude-I-just-lay-in the-sun-for-eight-hours-and-made a-weird-shape-on-my-body-with-a-book.

http://www.artnet.com/magaz...

Re: baumbach and the internet

sarahdouglas — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:00:05 -0000

Keith! I mistakenly replied to you over email, when, as I now understand, I was to have replied in this public format. Therefore here is my response in full -- Oh my books! Yes, it's true, you still have them. What is to be done? You could drop them off? I'm rarely at home... When he wrote to inform me about some party or another, I recently told Chad I was going to harass you a la that kid in Better Off Dead -- two dollars! -- but then I failed to show up at the party and hence to start that whole process. Plus I don't have a dirt bike, so.

As for Oleg Kulik and Jackass, hm, yes to that too. But first some subgroupings like the intentionally Jackass (Type A), the coincidentally Jackass (Kulik), the superficially-like-Jackass-but-actually-humorless (Matthew Barney and um well someone like Ron Athey) and of course the Jackass-avant-la-lettre (Chris Burden, of course, because he damned shot himself!)

Re: baumbach and the internet

sarahdouglas — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:51:02 -0000

I liked that character too. What a tangy mix he was of old testament fury and everyday haplessness. By the way, will all this blogging preclude the publishing of “The Notebooks of Someone or Another” in future? I hope not. But it might! And that would be sad.