~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©-~Ñ~vibrator, even (part xi)

What you find here as sound/image/text draws from my 39,907 word cyber-sex farce called ‘~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus©-~Ñ~vibrator, even’ - which I wrote during my artist-in-residency at the Cite des Art International in Paris during 1995. I edited it to this final version in NYC in 1999.

Den Marino (Russia), The Illustration of Life, 2009


Scope Foundation and Perpetual Art Machine presents

Received from Ford Crull in Shanghai:

OK, so I survived the performance. It was all improvised. I had one hour to paint these 2 canvases while 2 Chinese musicians each played for a half hour. It is very humid here so I was sweating bullets, but I just about got it done. The scaffolding wasn't quite high enough, so I stood on the ends to reach the top. I will touch it up when it comes back to Red Town in Shanghai where it will be permanently displayed.

Thanks to Sue Sillery via Chuck Sillery.

My radio interview on Michael Rush Interactive Michael Rush
@ http://artonair.org/show/joseph-nechvatal

James Kalm is cruising around the nabes and captures a couple of interesting local happenings, most notably the de-installation of the controversial New Museum exhibition "Skin Fruit". Rolling north-west from the Bowery, we visit the gem like mini-retrospective "Trim" and Other Works 1967-2010 by a personal favorite, Jim Nutt. This show features three recent "portrait" paintings and a group of related drawings. But the real treat is a small but choice selection of amazing work from the past forty years. As one of the leading members of the Chicago group "Hairy Who" Nutt has sustained one of the most consistent and provocative careers within the eccentric figurative mode.

from Bloomberg:

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Sigmar Polke, one of Germany’s best-known artists, died last night from cancer at the age of 69, his dealer Erhard Klein said in a phone interview.

Polke, a painter, graphic artist and photographer, was “one of the most important and most successful representatives of German contemporary art,” Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said in a statement. “He was a critical, ironic and self-ironic observer of postwar history and its artistic commentators.”

June 11, 2010. Just before running off to Chelsea to view some work, I checked Ed Winkelman's blog and saw he had posted this comedy skit about galleristas in their natural habitat. Enjoy.

It will be hard for me to keep a straight face should I encounter the antics and attitudes of certain art dealers this afternoon. So I will try to concentrate on the art.

June 10, 2010. Feel the blandishments of youthful (and sometimes mid-career) ambition! Cringe as the artists "explain" their work! Chortle at the pretensions and the gamesmanship! Watch usual suspects from the power elite of the NY art world as they preen and pontificate!

Here it is: the "Self Reflexive" episode of the Work of Art reality TV show that premiered on Bravo last night. See it and weep!

from The Onion:

LONDON—As the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico entered its eighth week Wednesday, fears continued to grow that the massive flow of bullshit still gushing from the headquarters of oil giant BP could prove catastrophic if nothing is done to contain it.

The toxic bullshit, which began to spew from the mouths of BP executives shortly after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April, has completely devastated the Gulf region, delaying cleanup efforts, affecting thousands of jobs, and endangering the lives of all nearby wildlife.