2002.04.14 17:27
Re: being/critical
Museum smile--say (Seagrams) whiskey. [Hey Ron, remember when we had champagne and snacks with Phyllis Lambert at her Montreal loft in Fall 1979? Weren't there like long, white shear draperies hanging all over the place? It's kind of funny to think that she had absolutely no idea what we were doing there. Didn't we also like rudely leave when we got bored? (Those draperies turned out to be useful for something.)]
Went down to Independence National Park this afternoon. Wanted to take pictures of the 1976 Liberty Bell pavilion (Mitchell/Giurgola Architects) before it becomes completely quondam when the Bell is moved to its forthcoming new home in Spring 2003. With all the news about the first Executive Mansion (with slave quarters) of the USA, you would think that the plans to demolish the present Liberty Bell pavilion would be rethought (as I mentioned before).
Anyway, all the historic shrines are now barricaded and guarded (since 9-11), so I took pictures of this latest layer of American shrine history as well.
Palimpsest is not exactly apposition because an erasure occurs before something new is applied. Apposition occurs within palimpsest when traces of what was erased begin to be seen again.
What's really artistic about self-collecting is its ongoing nature as an unfinished work in progress (like the only worthwhile art that John writes of). Self-exhibiting is artistic for the same reason.
So much for quondam opinions.
"What sphinx in here?"
2002.04.14
ideas
mp/being/nude--this is duchamp, pediment group, ignudis, crack reenactment prints, appose Ruff?, and who knows what else.
2002.05.07
art bu$ine$$
When you read The Andy Warhol Diaries it becomes very evident how much money/value mattered to Warhol. Besides all the entries of expense records for tax records, there is the interesting case when fashion designer Stephen Spouse (sp) went bankrupt. At the auction of the Spouse holdings were a pair of Spouse portraits by Warhol, and Warhol made sure that the value of the portraits did not drop because of a low bid at auction by buying (back) the portraits himself (via one of his employees). And in general the auction prices of Warhol works was always watched by Warhol very carefully.
Warhol died a very, very wealthy man/business.
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2002.05.16
at home
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