You Say Tomato I say Clamato
Posted by michelle on 01 Oct 2007 at 11:46 am | Tagged as: responses/reviews
Just a reminder to visit Artpace this week to see the pinata installation that Franco put together this month. Although I’m a little late on this one, you can see more photos from his recent exhibition at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in New Jersey.
You should start saving your iconic soup cans and pinata paraphernalia, as the BBC reports the Warhol glorified design will cease to exist due to a change in management. One of the original Warhol’s is currently on exhibit at Austin Museum of Art, alongside a giant BLT by Claes Oldenburg. Mmmmm, good.
Paddy Johnson: I started a personal blog in the fall of 2004, which technically marks the beginning of my blogging career though this was more of a past time than it was anything else. Art Fag City was started in September of 2005, which I think is a more accurate representation of the when a began to blog. Given that I have been mentioned once in a printed publication, the measured effect Art Fag City has had on the mainstream media amounts to virtually nothing at this point. It is unlikely however that this reflects the real effect that the community is having.
…as reading habits continue to evolve in the direction of digital media, they simply won’t have a choice.
PJ: Not yet, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before some friend sleeps with an artist whose show I’ve panned, and I’ll suffer from the same problem every other critic seems to have. As for the old boys club and most newspapers, I’m quite certain they could give a shit about me, and I suspect they write me off. Of course, hopefully that won’t always be the case. I am told they know I exist, so that’s a starting point at least.
PJ: I’m pretty interested in gossip and personal comments, so I like sites that are about this. In addition to the art media I read every day, I spend quite a bit of time on mindless blogs and gossip sites, and am completely happy doing so.
EM: Do you think blogging has or will change art criticism?
PJ: Absolutely. I think the art world is coming to this extremely late, which mostly speaks poorly of the community, but the one positive side to all this is that we already have models in fields such as business, entertainment and politics where this has happened. The Times just added “The Dealbook” ( which covers the world of finance) to their growing stable of blogs, which says to me that it is only a matter of time before they employ an art blogger. And this will change art criticism, because it (at least in theory) will mean an end to the overly precious reviews that now litter the art world.
EM: What about the effects of blogging in general or on art dealers?
PJ: This is an interesting question because some of the more visible effects that the blogging community has had can be seen in the gallery world. Dealers not only read Art Fag City, and many other publications, but they actually respond. You could note a light bulb was out at virtually any major gallery, and if they read you noticed it, they would change it in an instant. In November I wrote a review on the best and worst gallery websites, and Luhring Augustine received the worst review for having a non functional site. They fixed that problem within three days of my having mentioned it, which I have to say, is an incredible response time.
A situation in which the rich and comfortable have to change their light bulbs, and the poor have to give up their dream of having any light bulbs at all, will not wash.–AC Grayling
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3003/in_you_more_than_yourself/
Soup is a liquid food that is made by combining ingredients, such as meat, vegetables or legumes in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of waterproof containers (which probably came in the form of pouches made of clay or animal skin) about 5,000 years ago.
The word “soup” comes from the older word “sop,” meaning a piece of bread served with some type of liquid. One of the first types of soups can be dated to about 6000 B.C., earlier than other records, with the main ingredient being hippopotamus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_ooze
Andy Warhol’s Secret
“Buddhist monks destroy precious works of art to teach one of the core tenets of their faith: impermanence.”
http://www.acfnewsource.org/religion/sand_mandala.html
“Buddhist monks destroy precious works of art to teach one of the core tenets of their faith: impermanence.”
http://www.acfnewsource.org/religion/andy_warhol.html
I am told they know I exist, so that’s a starting point at least.
Paddy Johnson
“ There were two Brians…one was introverted, shy, sensitive, deep-thinking…the other was a preening peacock, gregarious, artistic, desperately needing assurance from his peers…he pushed every friendship to the limit and way beyond.”
“Moondog had an idealised view of Germany (”The Holy Land with the Holy River” — the Rhine), where he settled in 1974. A young German student named Ilona Goebel hosted him, first in Oer-Erkenschwick, and later on in Münster in Westphalia, Germany, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Moondog visited America briefly in 1989, for a tribute in which Phillip Glass himself asked him to conduct the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, at the New Music America Festival in Brooklyn, stimulating a renewed interest in his music”
Arnold Schoenberg revived the interest in canon with his twelve-tone technique.
https://emvergeoning.com/?p=770
http://www.moondogscorner.de/disco/rec15.htm
Ignorance, more than anything else. Of course, we all have our reasons but we’re…
Before ANNE: allow you to direct link to anything!?!?!