Monthly Archives: November 2007
Speaking of socialism
Spread the wealth
Print your own money
The Chapman brothers attempts at establishing a new economy are well underway.
The Guardian today offers the download of two original works by the Chapman brothers. In accordance with their re-evaluation of an existing currency they maintain the non-value of a new one. At a time when economic matters at home are at the opposite end of askew to those of the art market, I am enjoying the fiscal control being exerted by the Chapman’s.
Head East on Patterson Lake Road
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Avert your eyes
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Major Tenants: Time Equities Inc, Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Promethean Investment Group, Reprise Media and Armani Exchange.
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It is removed upon complaint of its appropriateness for a lobby frequently passed through by women in order to receive mammograms.
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Tom Moody, in his blog suggests that removal of Diana Kingsley’s Blue Ribbon from a curated show in the foyer of a building at 55 5th Avenue in New York is unwarranted and bemoans that the buildings owner, arts patron Francis Greenburger, does nothing to intervene. →→→→→→↓
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Ana Finel Honigman in her Guardian blog counters this.
She suggests removal of the photograph is an act of sensitivity to the “woman waiting to hear whether she might have to lose a breast, or her life.”
And that she “should not be confronted with an image glorifying breasts, or even mocking the enormous value that society places on them”.
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Comments to this blog claim its removal to be censorship.
So a woman waiting to hear if she has to lose a breast will hang about in the public lobby, will she?
It’s censorship, pure and simple.
…and Moody’s posting to be the preening call of the the NewYorkicus Liberalis.
Ah, is that the preening call of the the NewYorkicus Liberalis I hear.
“Censorship!” “Fascism!” it reflexively yelps.
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Who mentioned anything about censorship?
Map of Imaginary Friends
The Unfalsified Truth of Things
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Steve has put together what looks to be an interesting show tommorrow night at Between 316-318. From the press release:
A man has a fight with his boss; he tosses and turns that night, unable to sleep. In the morning, he is still so angry that he smashes the mirror while shaving. Then his telephone rings; his boss has called to apologise.
Documents are loosening from their fastenings, we read from the next room.
This neat scenario, which appears in an influential textbook, is used to exemplify the proposition that ‘narrative structure’ is built on tight cause and effect relationships. The everyman breaks his mirror for one reason, and one reason alone.
A seizure then, in every possible meaning of the word.
Here motivation is a ‘content’ that is circumscribable, entirely knowable and can be unproblematically delivered to an audience.
Injected with empty, lucid thought.
Any such hypodermic model would seem to be premised on relations of expertise and authority: the general haranguing his troops, or the teacher imparting by rote. To bind these two terms in this way is to disavow the potential for multiplicity within cultural interpretation. Any effect can become a special or supra effect, straining at, or breaking, the tether that holds it in place.
Tonight
A gentle reminder. Hung Drawn Quasi Stellar Object, Drawing 2007… the project brain opens tonight at the Portman Gallery.
Hierarchical Structure – animated (Idealism)