The People vs. Betty Gooch (2011, 57 min) David Gray
(SNEAK PREVIEW! )
The true crimes and punishment of Betty Gooch, alleged grandmother con-artist of the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. An in-depth look at confidence crime, collective guilt, and the role of the media in the dispensation of justice.
Two passenger seats are still available for the Sunday, April 10th Iron Maiden Artist Tour:
“eminent domain, nyc” tour with Bettina Johae
- a road trip through Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn
Finish feels too platinum elegiac pure http://www.publicartfund.org/robpruitt/project not trashy tin foil speed freak glitz of Factory
(my Tweet https://twitter.com/#!/slkaplan about an hour ago)
Thursday, March 31, 2011. 2:42 pm. I always preferred early Warhol - Soup Cans, Most Wanted, Elvis, Marilyn, Electric Chair, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Nico and Edie and the Velvets and Ultra Violet, Gerard and Brigid Polk, Empire, Blow Job, Lonesome Cowboys, Superstars, Ondine, Billy Name, all night amphetamine 47th Street Factory Warhol - to later, more domesticated incarnations.
There was certainly a great Union Square, Max's Kansas City, Interview Magazine stretch through the 70s, even while the celebrity silkscreens were being turned out en masse. But Pruitt's version is just a bit too staid. It conforms, is a sign of the times. Union Square is now a yuppie paradise, not the wild, dope ridden enclave it was back in the 70s. Is this the Andy it now deserves, an Andy for 2011?
MIT Creativity and Design Workshop
I will be participating in this workshop thanks to the sponsorship of The School of Visual Arts MFACA Department.
The Bruce High Quality Foundation and CREATIVE TIME present Teach 4 Amerika, A Rally for Anarchy in Arts Education
www.teach4amerika.org
Tour Dates & Locations
New York, NY
· March 29 rally at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street, New York, 6:30 pm
General Admission, RSVP required:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132877676785582
As an antidote to partisan Republican mutterings that hope to confuse the Obama administration's current commitment to a limited American military action in Libya with the grievous mistakes of Little Bushie's protracted land war in Iraq, please consult this short list from Professor Juan Cole's Informed Comment site.
Here are the differences between George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the current United Nations action in Libya:
1. The action in Libya was authorized by the United Nations Security Council. That in Iraq was not. By the UN Charter, military action after 1945 should either come as self-defense or with UNSC authorization. Most countries in the world are signatories to the charter and bound by its provisions.
2. The Libyan people had risen up and thrown off the Qaddafi regime, with some 80-90 percent of the country having gone out of his hands before he started having tank commanders fire shells into peaceful crowds. It was this vast majority of the Libyan people that demanded the UN no-fly zone. In 2002-3 there was no similar popular movement against Saddam Hussein.
Patrick Cariou wins copyright case against Richard Prince and Gagosian. Judge orders that all infringing copies of Cariou’s Rastafarian photos be impounded and destroyed
from The Art Newspaper:
By Charlotte Burns | Web only
Published online 21 Mar 2011.New York. A US District judge has ruled in favor of photographer Patrick Cariou in his copyright lawsuit against artist Richard Prince.
Cariou originally filed suit for copyright infringement against Prince, Larry Gagosian, Gagosian Gallery, and Rizzoli books in December 2008 after a number of his photographs were re-appropriated without consent in Prince’s Canal Zone series. The photographs first appeared in Cariou’s 2000 publication, Yes, Rasta, a photographic book produced after spending six years documenting Jamaican Rastafarians.
