project about memory and place:

find 50 tourist maps of the united states. cut them out. make one map.

anglophillic paper about the queer subtext in Britten's Turn of the Screw, as it relates to the sexual implications of Kennedy's latin primer.


Mogawli, a robot that leapfrogs, of course from japan.

kohei yokeshi's photos of toyko couples having polymporphus sex in bushes, reminds me of Fukase photos of ravens, in how they suggest movement abstractly, and have a kind of sinister, furtive energy.


ATF Moonshine Van, Mid 60s

whole digitzed codex gigas, one of the most important omnibus of early medieval religious material, with bible, two texts by flavius jospheus, and the encylopedia of isidore. all hand drawn, hand lettered, with some fantastic marginalia. (look at the picture of the devil.)

gq sells its journalistic ethics.


Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder
(Antwerp 1573-1621 The Hague)
A still life of flowers in a vase
oil on panel
(i love how full this image is, nothing is out of place, nothing is chaotic, but it is so overwhelmingly huge. obscenely luxiourous)

more bad news from burma. and yet more and some cyber background.

the rise of apoclyptic cults in east africa


Giraffes fighting.


Paul Kane, Buffalo Fighting, Watercolour and Ink, 1846 (sketchbook page)

30 photos of world wide beuarocrats--busy, officious, and overcrowded---reminds me of kipling.

abstract sculptures made accidently by cows adn their tounges.




Three Posters from the London Underground.
see 5700 more here

74 endpages, mostly from educational sources in the mid 50s, but also 6 or 7 from something caleld dutch treat, charmingly b/w the wars erotica.

these 7 photos of women in the white hosue, haev the super aturated brights of sirk, the stiff iconicness of newton, and the explciit fashion choices of jackie o, weirdly violent in places, or at least assumed violence, esp the motorocade with her no the back of a black lincoln contentital.

i dont know if tucker nichols is charmingly amatuerish or a subpar tuttle ripoffs. i find them really ambigious.


worlds worst mouse plague.

the pulitzer foundation of the art records and documents reich's music for some trains and crumb's black angel death songs.

exhaustive report on sexual violence as a politcal weapon, in the congo, from stephen lewis.

50 examples of themetic radio broadcasts from dylan, he has great taste, and a certain vaudeville hucksterism


Prada, Spring, 08

grant hamiltion's polaroid photographs manage to work thru the two formal questions the media approaches, the ready made frame, and the saturated colour. the abstractions, and the clean, well constructed shapes and forms, are smooth without being vapid. the diptychs fit together in the same way as some of the more famous hard edged abstractionists, but smaller, more domestic and more intimate. some of them are too awkward, and fail to work, and the collection would have suited a slight edit, but thats minor quibbling. i find them really inspirational.




Two David Byrne photos from the southern states.

i am an enfp and i want pancakes. buy me pancakes now motherfuckers.

Ryman

Ryman
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose

I LIKE THIS PIC

Joseph received the word of the Lord for him to take his two counselors, Frederick G. Williams and Sidney Rigdon, and come before the Lord and He would show them the plan or model of the house to be built. We went upon our knees, called on the Lord, and the building appeared within viewing distance, I being the first to discover it. Then all of us viewed it together. After we had taken a good look at the exterior, the building seemed to come right over us, and the makeup of this hall seemed to coincide with what I there saw to a minutia.

Thomas O Rangell, On Navou Temple.
Qouted by David Byrne

in her sequins and her laces/she dances for kids braces
chesney

some photos of the 1950 ford show, from tammy salzl.

elizabeth perry's image of the ford

amanda kindregan car.

some more on my flickr.

i still need to correct some spelling mistakes on the title cards.

George Alexander, 1813-1830, bought to england from the Caribbean,was called "beautiful, spotted negro boy", and "fanciful child nature formed in her most playful mood", in press of the day. it's weird how close this looks to Landseer's portraits or even Stubbs--that ambigious place b/w "human" and "animal" that comes up a ot in european depcitions of the other. The museum of the English Royal Surgeons has a show about medicine, race, and the depictions of both.

squid necklaces

apparently kennedys latin primer, one used by most english students in teh 20th entury, is rife with camp subtext.


Leighton, a trucker based from Ypslainti, has an lj where he posts photos like this.

dubai has date frappicunios. but only dubai.

this 6 pages of Rachel Zoe, is a really subtle deconstruction of celebrity's parasitic culture.

balint zsako does this brightly coloured, delicately lined, almsot surreal drawings, often of animals and people. excellent work.

the lost format preservation society, has these iconic black and white drawings of disks, and the like--including minidisc, vhs, and a dozen or mroe others.


Paul Hornschmier illustrates Kossler's poem, the Big Slide.

53 photos of the 1968 worlds fair, all taken with an instamatic.

joe clark toronto photog and transit critic, writes a long, brilliant essay on consistent usage of type in the ttc. kind of aspielicious in places


Alev Ebuzziya Seisbye, Glass and Cermaic, 2007

michaelangelo signorile notes that condi owns property in california with a liberal documentary female filmaker


Wally Wood for Alka Selzter

excerpt from DFW's edited best american essays 2007

lethem on phillip k dick.

8 photos of german dj's living rooms.

aclu files motions that suggest the craig sting was unconstitutional

the burma situation is worriesome, i wonder if this si going to be simialr to the 1988 crackdown. photos from the democratic vocies of burma.



francois alys found a copy of a lost portrait of St Fabiola. he saw other copies, over the last decade, in Germany, Spain, Paris, Belgium, Argentina, and London. he kept painting them, over and over again, for a decade. The paintings, now at the hispanic society of new york have much to say about cultural memory--one can lose the original,but copies extend the verbal and visual memory of an object maybe forever, the lost/found of historical searching is made clear here. i find the effort holy.


new still from Elizabeth:A Golden Age, with Blanchett


Teh Values Voters Choir signs Why Should God Bless America

Jare Belliveau qubecious family portraits, w/o much sentiment.

sanchez brothers haev a really frighenting, violent, and sinister subtext to their work.

natiev english speaker speaks 20k words.

the bst thing about edwards hiv policy is that it seeks to completely elimante most chunks of the Bush hiv policy


This Durst Photo makes me more then a little hard.


Slate Travels to the Correction Industry Food Trade Fair.


Tauber Abech

jake gyllenhaal, why wont you love me

four things to do tomorrow:

get shit back home
send wright award emails.
deal with photos
confirm meeting on thursday

Housing Services Division
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Edmonton Office
Phone: (780) 422-0122
Fax: (780) 422-8462

brilliant brilliant day.

the talk went off w/o a hitch , then went for lunch at the blue plate diner with yuka, and her husband paul, and elijah (kid, named in part b/c it is an anglo name easily pronounceable in japan. (tuna melt, cesar to drink, beet cake)

after lunch, a few minutes in their hotel room, then 124th street, we only had a chance to go to high street (including elephants, carols sweets, notables, etc), then ikea.

a couple of things--the conversation flowed quick and easy, with some pretty quick intimacy, excellent laughter, and some kind of domestic tourism that always makes me feel incredibly grateful.

paul is a neurologist, and his discussion of mental illness in relation to shrinks was invaluable...yuka was gentle, and v. v. funny--& the kid, the kid was masterful--curious, often quiet, i dont kow, at 3 months, it was pretty cool.

b/w yesterday and today--i am feeling comfortable with my place in the arts scene, what e ver that is.

(also bought elijah two books, both tin tin, because kids need tin tin.)

the opening went well, but less people came then i thot would. afterwards got a little drunk and a little stoned, and had brill conversations/dinner.

i can never sleep the night before a gig, anxiety ridden i am.

some things

still haven't gotten the beard etc done
instead of preparing a long long speech, going to use the outline and wing it.
the show isn't up but will be for the opening
press was equally good and maddening, exhausting and exhilarating (gilbert kept aksing of the work was accessible; mary christ o keefe is a clever, wise woman who kept saying let the gallery handle it, 6:20 breakfast tv tomorrow.)
no cheque and little money, so maybe no going out afterwards.
bought new clothes, and a bag that broke w/i the hour
i have trouble sleeping, and my stomach is upset, but that happens before big things

today:
haircut/beardtrim
return clothes
10:30 media launch
maybe lunch with joe.

friday:
send brad emails
opening

sat:
lecture

sunday:
booksale

next week:
pick up truck original proposal, afa
photo follow up
programming meeting

nicole akestien does that richard bellingham/martin parr thing, but creepier, trashier, and with a different kind of intent.

yarr, ye mateys, etc

its weird, about exposure, is that things seem really firm, and then they kind of slip from under me or everyone is doing every little thing on their own, and so as a chair i know much less then i should.

Will
x can/should
x Neistche
x request/dialectic

100
x elegance
x century
x decimal
x cold formalism

artists
x conceptual
x define
x is someone who makes art?
x and the gallery context

please
x respect
x conversational
x midwestern
x absence of curatorial voice

draw
x material list
x rise of digial voice (xerox, etc)
x markmaking
x drawing as its own, as opposed to a continuing of other traditions

A
x not the

1950
x rosenquist/other 1950s?
x middle
x half of 100
x parrels
x utopia
x public imaginaiton
x post war

Ford
x mass production
x model t
x henry
x cross the river (50/100)

From
x production

Memory
x cooperate
x collective
x personal
x unstable
x bullshit game

Monday
Drop off Art
2 Pm Pick up Art From Gaby at Harcourt
5:30 Pm Pick Up from Geoff at Starlite Room

Tuesday:
10 AM: Jury

Wednesday:
5 pm: Steering Committee Meeting

Friday:
Opening

Sat:
Lecture
Stephs Bday Party

There is my country under glass,
a white relief-
map with red dots for the cities,
reduced to the size of a wall


and beside it 10 blownup snapshots
one for each province,
in purple-browns and odd reds,
the green of the trees dulled;
all blues however
of an assertive purity.


Mountains and lakes and more lakes
(though Quebec is a restaurant and Ontario the empty
interior of the parliament buildings),
with nobody climbing the trails and hauling out
the fish and splashing in the water


but arrangements of grinning tourists-
look here, Saskatchewan
is a flat lake, some convenient rocks
where two children pose with a father
and the mother is cooking something
in immaculate slacks by a smokeless fire,
her teeth white as detergent.


Whose dream is this, I would like to know:
is this a manufactured
hallucination, a cynical fiction, a lure
for export only?


I seem to remember people,
at least in the cities, also slush,
machines and assorted garbage. Perhaps
that was my private mirage
which will just evaporate
when I go back. Or the citizens will be gone,
run off to the peculiarly-
green forests
to wait among the brownish mountains
for the platoons of tourists
and plan their old red massacres.

Ronettes, Be My Baby, 1965


Hello Kitty Wedding

dozens of vintage photos of women in miniskirts.


Universally recognized symbols for weather.

"Daniel Cooper, President George W. Bush's undersecretary for benefits at the Department of Veterans Affairs." is part of CoC, and the xian Embassy--loves jesus more then his job.

navouu was occupied after the lds by a group of french social utopians influenced by the work of Robert Owen. link goes to a description of the city by the groups leader, Etienne Cabet (for some reason, translated by marxists)




Three peices of fan art, from the UFC fighter Chuck Liddell's website.

42 photos of recent american hobos, no identifying info about who took them, or what they were about.

the I AM movement provide free sacred visualizations, for all our current scandals and chaos. amazing combo of indian kitsch, 19th century blavastky style visualaztions, cnn found imagery, digitial animations and watchtower utopias. beautiful. this one is supposed to increase yr heart chakras.

viking long ship found under a car park in merseyside


Intourist Poster for Leningrad, mid 30s.

On the anatomy of the breast, by Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1840downloadable pdf, with 10 plates.


New Deep Sea Eel found.



huge roll call of lenders who seem to be fucked--over 100 of them (the auction lists rebounded this year, with the Contemparary auctions for christie this year got 12.6m on 12.4 estimate)


Jamie T, Sheila (white grime, hipster bait, but he has some flow,a nd the video features a monkey)




three billboards from goa, photographed by

dozens of photoshop images defaming the democratic party--the weirdest ones are those featuring soviet imagery--i mean hilary clinton is a lot of things,but shes not lenin. (usual racist, homophobic crap, inside, including blackface)

more on that murder suicide in orlando


Photo of Bush's recent trip to Iraq. They look like gangsters here, the dark suits, the forward pose, the lighting, and the sneaking in in the black of night.

new york msm of colour's HIV/AIDS rates are increasing at alarming rates.

interesting peice on the failure of the BMI as a metric for obesity.

when the daily telegraph cannot find anything nice to say about you, yr life as minor english aristocrat is basiaclly a failure. (if yr lifes work is a book called the grand estate houses of central europe, it would also be a good indication


Nantes, Teh Braille Project, 2000-2007, Paris.

18 photos of an armless hunter

On Second Life, you can have sex with unicorns and make baby unicorns.

Alan Moore scaring small children.


Prize winning pig, Montanna State Fair.

Bush pulling back troops from Dec 2007 ot Spring 2008, will reduce troops to presurge, its not any net reduction in troops.


Neolithic Skeleton unearthed, with Bone decoration, Thailand.

hipster manhattaniteS dress as viking pirates and recite children stories. it is more awesome then you can imagine.

ten most polluted placeso n earth and Chernobyl is 7.

100 photos of people sitting on paper moons, from the 19th century...oddly moving, and kind of romantic.

video of a snake after he had eaten a hippo.

like a death of the heart/jesus where do i start/but you are still the one pool/where i will happily drown...

lcd soundsystem, new york i love you, etc

de menil has a show of rauschenberg cardboards, cruising has been released, and the track new york i love you but yr letting me down by lcd soundsystem is a beloved indie hit---a trifecta of meaning, one of those coincidental hooks that is oddly fruitful, frissons of tension and nostalgia...

the cardboard compositions, done b/w 72-75, are filthy, flattened, badly painted, trodden down and ripped apart, in that weird way that you cant tell if they are sculptures or trash or drawings or collage--this is all rr--i know that, but his combines, even with the filth, the mourning, the reapportioned jokes, had a delicacy. he did the hoar frost series about this time, and with its whites, its shrouding, it had the elegance of a august gaden neo-classicism, or when Emily Dickinson used the word tomb. They were quiet, desperate, things which spoke in the same voices, barely attached to its framing---“Made of gauzy layered fabric printed and collaged with selections from the artist's stockpile of pop culture images, the hangings are loosely tacked to the wall to emphasize their soft, slightly amorphous character.” (October 2, 2005, NYT)—the gauze, like in surgery, like in the loose veil Milton talked about, was the exact opposite—the cardboard was brutally constructed—little screen printing, no gauze, no pale new England winters, that separated reality, that obscured politely, into a quiet discussion of what veiling and unveiling meant.

Nixon, Vietnam, bankruptcy, crime, bad food and impossibly cheap real estate, grindhouse, the Son of Sam killer, Charlie Manson, coke, I mean the list has been shown over and over again, but looking at these boxes—marked fragile, falling apart, crudely taped or slathered with staples—they aren’t pleasurable, they are desperate broken, sad exhausted, they are almost impossible to write about it—because its like if New York has given up, then Rauschenberg might as well. One of them is painted the colour of the virigin mary, and looks like a homeless man’s filthy blanket, one is reclaimed from the National Spinning Company—and red threads, like badly stiched scars, move across the label, in the middle of it, three boxes jut out from the middle—a geographic ideal of what new york thot of itself?

They have a grim dedication to the matter of dying, disruption, deconstruction, decay—he wrote, about that time “I was beginning to feel that so many of my friends—were having so many problems with happiness that perhaps I was responsible for some sort of evil spirit…” (quoted in Bruce Hanley’s review of the show in the Fall 2007 Art Forum)

Looking thru the glossy coffee table book that was produced in conjunction of the show—the printing, the photo repros, the weird thing is that (well literally), it has become a museum piece—not the Rauschenberg pieces, which are little known and apparently don’t sell well (lots were kept in rr’s private collection (but he moved from new york, he almost drank himself to death, maybe they were kept not because they couldn’t sell but because they worked as a memoir, a reminder of a sadder time, and his eventual triumph)—I keep thinking that with enough slickness, the most brutal work, looks elegant and refined—those gorgeous concrete bunkers that marked the architecture of the period---listening to that lcd sound system track again—there is a line where the singer intones: “our records all show you were filthy but fine”—those two pieces made in the late 70s, the last great series he did—one was fine but not filthy, and one was filthy but not fine…a 26 yr old reads about the sex but not the mugging, studio 54 but not the south Bronx—new york was dying, rr was dying, that the city has risen again like lazarus but lost its soul in the cleanliness is kind of a bizarre multi-phasic urban irony that seems only possible in America

Thinking of filthy and fine, thinking about the re-release of crusing, its been such an icon of filth—not on vhs, not on dvd, little snippets on late night television, on queer docs, as history, as victory. They made this awful homophobic movie and the good gays and lesbians defeated it—they thot we were all psychopaths and killers, and sedeuced everyone…I haven’t seen cruising yet-it’s a curio and so hmv doesn’t carry it in Edmonton—but I remember seeing boys in the band last june, during pride—and it was a little kitschy, and v. sad, and complicated, well written, wank worthy in places, with the self loathing and the radical honesty having as much in common with est and retreat sessions as they did with some kind of loathing—russo hated that movie too, and I found myself fond of it…reading the reviews of crusing, it seems so strange, so broken, so brutal…they remind me not of self loathing faggots but the death of the cities, one of the lines in that lcd soundsystem song is “ cops that were bored when they ran out of crime” –and the bdsm sex that I hear written about in the diaries of that period, in the reviews of that period, seems dutiful, dark, and urban (not urbane, not pleasurable, but as a revolutionary act of if not creation, then destruction---delaney has written about so many men fucking by the peirs that the rotting wood threatened to give way, that they would have been crushed or went into the water (LCD: new york is a pool in which I would happily drown” )—Geoff Parkes, an australian critic and writer talks about it “fisting is not aboutpenetration, nor is it to do with the superfice - it's to do with occupation of a space, with becoming joined, with swallowing not piercing... not to mention there's nothing to penetrate, the anus being a hole that has never represented absence - to the contrary often over-flowing fullness but in bodily terms the muscle is the only thing to be penetrated and yet it opens up to the fist, providing more space, schlurping around... to pierce the flesh with a sword or a bullet is to damage and destory, to make a hole where none was before; whereas fisting, if done properly, is to make a whole where there was just hole before.”

There is a hole in the work (literal holes, broken bits, uncompleteness, a partiality) in the work of Rauschenberg’s cardboard boxes, there are holes in the narrative’s of cruising—of Russo’s dishonesty in describing it, in its absence from the canon of Pacino (was his lauded role as Roy Cohn an attempt to make the hole whole?), there was a hole in new york, in he 70s—with those burnt thru buildings, and there was a hole in the states in the 70s—the entire id of a generation cast infitnetley on 17 minutes of absent tape, but there is a whole when LCD sound system sings “and oh/take me off yr mailing list/for kids who think it still exists” b/c it never existed, the filthy and fine new york city…?

to do tomorrow

1) gasland
2) email brad
3) follow up with last of the ruscha people not on the i will mail it to you list
4) update work list
5) thnx email to brenda
6) call terra losa

so the christies contemparary open auction wasnt as much of a disaster--with some female artists selling well (including nevelson, neel, bourgeius and mitchell--plus some abex stuff doing alright, including some smith drawings, and the noland/louis upcheck still occurring--but iots pretty dicey:

81 works bought in (at a no reserve auction)
20 works below estimate
90 works with in estimate--most of those v. low (ie w/o the premium a sizeable chunck would be below estimate)

only one work over 1m, and two works over 500k.

two days ago i had a egg mcmuffin with the shells still in them, which was disconcerting, because i always thot that mcmuffins and eggs were only a kind of conceptual arrangement.

Artist Johan Hagemeyer
Title Antoinette Detcheva - pianist
Year 1931 -
Medium gelatin silver print, mntd
Size 7 x 8.9 in. / 17.8 x 22.5 cm.
Misc. Signed, Inscribed, Stamped
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 US$
Sold For 188 US$ PREMIUM

Artist Brassaï
Title Salvador Dali
Year 1955 -
Printing/
Casting Later Imp
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 11 x 8.5 in. / 27.9 x 21.6 cm.
Misc. Signed
Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 US$
Sold For 438 US$ PREMIUM

Brassaï
Title Matisse, Paris
Year 1944 -
Printing/
Casting Later Imp
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 11.5 x 9.1 in. / 29.1 x 23 cm.
Misc. Signed, Inscribed
Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 US$
Sold For 375 US$ PREMIUM

Artist Dr. Leonard B. Loeb
Title Portrait of Hagemeyer
Year 1940 - 1949
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 10 x 8 in. / 25.4 x 20.3 cm.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000 US$
Sold For 250 US$ PREMIUM

Artist Johan Hagemeyer
Title Golden Canyon
Year 1939 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 3.9 x 5 in. / 10 x 12.7 cm.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 US$
Sold For 375 US$ PREMIUM

Artist Johan Hagemeyer
Title Piper's Opera House, Virginia City
Year 1949 -
Printing/
Casting Later Imp
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 4.7 x 5 in. / 12 x 12.7 cm.
Misc. Stamped
Estimate 2,500 - 3,500 US$
Sold For 188 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 321
Artist Johan Hagemeyer
Title Piper's Opera House, Virginia City
Year 1949 -
Printing/
Casting Later Imp
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 4.7 x 5 in. / 12 x 12.7 cm.
Misc. Stamped
Estimate 2,500 - 3,500 US$
Sold For 188 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter

lot# 322
Artist Johan Hagemeyer
Title Stone candle lamps
Year 1948 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 3.7 x 4.8 in. / 9.5 x 12.3 cm.
Misc. Stamped
Estimate 2,500 - 3,500 US$
Sold For 375 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter

lot# 323
Artist Johan Hagemeyer
Title Death Valley, Zabriskie Point
Year 1941 -
Printing/
Casting Circa 1948
Medium gelatin silver print, mntd
Size 3.7 x 4.8 in. / 9.3 x 12.1 cm.
Impression 1948
Misc. Signed
Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 US$
Sold For 375 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter

lot# 324
Artist Johan Hagemeyer
Title Ruins of Opera House, Virginia City
Year 1949 -
Medium gelatin silver print, mntd
Size 5.6 x 5.5 in. / 14.3 x 14 cm.
Misc. Signed, Stamped
Estimate 2,500 - 3,500 US$
Sold For 188 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter

lot# 325
Artist Johan Hagemeyer
Title Rocks and surf
Year 1942 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 7.2 x 9.4 in. / 18.2 x 23.8 cm.
Misc. Stamped
Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 US$
Sold For 375 US$ PREMIUM


lot# 329
Artist Nicholas Calloway
Title The octave of prayer no. 2 (+ The octave of prayer no. 1; 2 works)
Year 1970 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 11 x 14 in. / 27.9 x 35.6 cm.
Misc. Signed, Inscribed
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500 US$
Sold For 125 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter

Artist Nicholas Calloway
Title Landscape (+ 8 others; set of 9)
Printing/
Casting 1975
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 3 x 9.4 in. / 7.6 x 23.8 cm.
Edition 1/15
Found./Pub. Nicholas Callaway, pub.
Impression 1975
Misc. Signed
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000 US$
Sold For 250 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter

t# 334
Artist Gertrude Kasebier
Title Portrait of a lady
Year 1900 -
Medium platinum print
Size 8 x 6 in. / 20.3 x 15.2 cm.
Misc. Stamped
Estimate 4,000 - 6,000 US$
Sold For 563 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 337
Artist Frederick Henry Evans
Title In Chateau Chaumont
Year 1900 -
Medium platinum print, mntd
Size 10.4 x 5.7 in. / 26.3 x 14.4 cm.
Misc. Signed, Inscribed, Stamped
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 US$
Sold For 313 US$ PREMIUM

ot# 345
Artist Jean-Pierre Khazem
Title Dance
Year 1995 -
Medium chromogenic print
Size 55 x 39.5 in. / 139.7 x 100.3 cm.
Edition 1/3
Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 US$
Sold For 313 US$ PREMIUM


lot# 347
Artist Jean-Pierre Khazem
Title Massage (+ 4 others; 5 works)
Year 1998 -
Medium chromogenic print
Size 20.5 x 28.3 in. / 52 x 72 cm.
Edition 5/5
Estimate 4,000 - 6,000 US$
Sold For 250 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 349
Artist Victor Schrager
Title Untitled - Upside down mushroom
Year 1998 -
Medium platinum-palladium print
Size 10 x 8 in. / 25.4 x 20.3 cm.
Edition 1/25
Misc. Signed, Inscribed
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 US$
Sold For 125 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 352
Artist Victor Schrager
Title Untitled - Dragonfly & feathers
Year 1998 -
Medium platinum-palladium print
Size 10 x 8 in. / 25.4 x 20.3 cm.
Edition 1/25
Misc. Signed, Inscribed
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 US$
Sold For 188 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 354
Artist Michael Kenna
Title Rainbow fairies (from Monique's Kindergarten)
Year 1996 -
Printing/
Casting 1998
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 3.7 x 4.3 in. / 9.5 x 10.8 cm.
Edition 14/45
Impression 1998
Misc. Signed, Stamped
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500 US$
Sold For 375 US$ PREMIUM

ot# 356
Artist Jed Devine
Title Still life
Year 1985 -
Medium palladium print
Size 7.5 x 9.4 in. / 19 x 24 cm.
Misc. Signed
Estimate 1,500 - 2,500 US$
Sold For 313 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 370
Artist John Albok
Title Park Avenue tunnel resting place
Year 1935 -
Printing/
Casting Later Imp
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 10.5 x 13.5 in. / 26.7 x 34.3 cm.
Misc. Signed, Inscribed
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500 US$
Sold For 500 US$ PREMIUM


lot# 371
Artist John Dugdale
Title Untitled
Year 2000 -
Medium photogravure
Size 8.7 x 7 in. / 22.2 x 17.8 cm.
Misc. Signed
Estimate 2,500 - 3,500 US$
Sold For 750 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 379
Artist Larry Clark
Title Untitled (from Tulsa)
Year 1968 - 1971
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 8 x 12 in. / 20.2 x 30.4 cm.
Misc. Signed
Estimate 1,500 - 2,500 US$
Sold For 625 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 404
Artist George Platt Lynes
Title Fashion for Henri Bendel, June
Year 1953 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 9.2 x 7.7 in. / 23.4 x 19.6 cm.
Misc. Inscribed, Stamped
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 US$
Sold For 625 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter

lot# 405
Artist Horst P. Horst
Title Mistinguett, Paris
Year 1934 -
Printing/
Casting Later Imp
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 16.3 x 12 in. / 41.3 x 30.5 cm.
Misc. Signed, Stamped
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 US$
Sold For 563 US$ PREMIUM


lot# 407
Artist Andre de Dienes
Title Nude (+ Shadow; 2 works)
Year 1958 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 13.7 x 10.8 in. / 34.8 x 27.5 cm.
Misc. Stamped
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 US$
Sold For 375 US$ PREMIUM

Artist George Hoyningen-Huene
Title Valley temple of Chephren (+ 2 others; 3 works)
Year 1939 -
Printing/
Casting Later Imp
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 9.4 x 7.5 in. / 24 x 19 cm.
Misc. Inscribed, Stamped
Estimate 2,500 - 3,500 US$
Sold For 750 US$ PREMIUM

417
Artist Albert Westelin
Title Untitled - Chain and water
Year 1935 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 13.5 x 9 in. / 34.2 x 22.8 cm.
Misc. Stamped
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500 US$
Sold For 188 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter


lot# 434
Artist George Daniell
Title Bruno and Nino, Piazza Navona, Rome
Year 1955 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 10.9 x 8.5 in. / 27.6 x 21.6 cm.
Misc. Inscribed, Stamped
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500 US$
Sold For 438 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 447
Artist Brian Wood
Title Accession and bed (+ another; 2 works)
Year 1978 -
Medium dye-transfer print construction
Size 27.2 x 10.6 in. / 69.2 x 27 cm.
Misc. Signed
Estimate 500 - 700 US$
Sold For 125 US$ PREMIUM

lot# 457
Artist Eikoh Hosoe
Title Kamaitachi #26
Year 1968 -
Medium gelatin silver print
Size 14.4 x 21.3 in. / 36.5 x 54 cm.
Misc. Signed, Inscribed
Estimate 3,000 - 5,000 US$
Sold For 938 US$ PREMIUM Currency Converter

From the Photo Auction at Christies. Above are the ones that went severley below estimates

Other Stats: 9 lots withdrawn, 95 below estimate, 28 Between High and Low Estimate, 23 Above Estimate.

Most Expensive work: An Evans for 8750.

five things to do this week

1) follow up with come as you are
2) find the rest of the work, write lists, etc for the ruscha show (and panic!)
3) figure out schedule for the numbers show
4) send out postcards
5) studio visit/lunch with john/steph?/library/blair/etc wednesday

me

Rick Rubin, Patrois(?), New York Times.
Illustrating a story about him as new exec at Columbia, he looks like jeremiah



pulp cover gallery

a great blog on morbid anatomy, with lots and lots of pictures.

Anatomical Drawing of a Hermaphrodite, 19th Century, England


the MI5 spent at least a decade spying on Orwell (the problem with 1984, is that it assumed the mechanics of the state had to be huge, overwhelmingly present, as opposed to small, intimate, and unending)

more republican sex scandal though this is women and whores.

fort meyers flordia high school journalism classes grade students, at least partially, on ad revnue.

richard stickler, the department of mines director, was rejected twice by a republican congress, and was a recess appointment, from the article:

Stickler used to be a mining executive who - according to various media reports - ran mines which had several fatalities and "...an incident rate that was often twice the national average."

children's book intended to teach about curing homosex.

fantastic pulp comic, a sort of anthology of sf pulp visual tropes, called planet, from the 40s.

i have been reading fredrick seidel's poetry lately, and reading stories like this--his work is deacdent, louche, and v. wealthy, and his bio seems more impt to most critics then the writing. that said, the sex in his work is amazing, just the kind of erotic imagination that happens when you dont have to do anything in yr life but shop and fuck. the boston review fellates him into oblivion.

romney is so squeaky that this democrat slam site is pathetic. (their has been a pdf of a 1981 questionare that romney completed for planned parenthood, where he stated his support for womens reproductive support, that is much more damaging then this nonesense--its not that hes a flipflopper, its that hes a whore.)


Maraget Bourke White, Oil Refinery near Houston, 1950s

Nasa Illustration about Mars Exploration, early 60s

tracey lind, from the american midwest, is a lesbian and perhaps a new epsicopal bishop--i like her much better then Robinson, she at least seems humble:

“I am honored and humbled to be named a nominee for Bishop of Chicago and to be included in the company of my fellow nominees, all of whom are faithful, accomplished leaders in God's church. Since the day last winter when I was asked to make myself available to this nominating process, my discernment prayer has been that God would continue to lead me to serve God's new creation in the church. I believe that accepting this nomination is what God is asking of me, and I will strive to respond to that call faithfully and with grace.”

northop grunman the weapons manufacturer sells guns and bombs with mediocre comic books.

anthony burill is sort of a hipster patrick caufield, but better.
One of his landscapes, from 2006

the isrealie army uses situationist and post structuralist urban theory, esp. the work of both Deluze and Debord:

There is a considerable overlap among the theoretical texts considered essential by military academies and architectural schools. Indeed, the reading lists of contemporary military institutions include works from around 1968 (with a special emphasis on the writings of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Guy Debord), as well as more contemporary writings on urbanism, psychology, cybernetics, post-colonial and post-Structuralist theory. If, as some writers claim, the space for criticality has withered away in late 20th-century capitalist culture, it seems now to have found a place to flourish in the military.

I asked...why Deleuze and Guattari were so popular with the Israeli military. (Naveh, a retired Brigadier-General) replied that ‘several of the concepts in A Thousand Plateaux became instrumental for us […] allowing us to explain contemporary situations in a way that we could not have otherwise. It problematized our own paradigms. Most important was the distinction they have pointed out between the concepts of “smooth” and “striated” space [which accordingly reflect] the organizational concepts of the “war machine” and the “state apparatus”. In the IDF we now often use the term “to smooth out space” when we want to refer to operation in a space as if it had no borders. […] Palestinian areas could indeed be thought of as “striated” in the sense that they are enclosed by fences, walls, ditches, roads blocks and so on.’5 When I asked him if moving through walls was part of it, he explained that, ‘In Nablus the IDF understood urban fighting as a spatial problem. [...] Travelling through walls is a simple mechanical solution that connects theory and practice.’

a larger essay on the topic


Xian mudwrestling, near Louisville.

concern about excellent actresses being more known for their bodies then their roles, centering on the maggie gyllenhall for agent provateour shoot.

(the thing about this article, is esp the AP shots, is that she is obv acting here--they are erotic, carefully controlled, v. much about her body, and how she uses it. I think that the article forgets that actors use their bodies, and one of the ways that those bodies are usd is for seduction--and considering how varied Maggie Gyllenhall's career has been, the sophisticated use of self created imagery is present. And as for nicole kidman, i am not sure she isnt vacant, (and her best roles are roles that are about how she uses her body---kidman was a better actor in too die for, moulin rouge, or a portrait of a lady, then she was in the interperter, dogville or the hours)




This interview b/w Ellen Degeneres and Hilary Clinton, the second half taking place at a diner, is so smooth, so well constructed, so normal, reminds us that Clinton is excellent at pretending to be smooth and normal.

nerve article on the sexual underground of the middle east, and what it means when jewish poronography is popular in arabic circles.


a story about stalags, a kind of pulp fiction, written by isrealis, for isrealis, pretending to be anglos, in the mid 1960s.The pulp were supposed first person sexual narratives about the death camps. There is a documentary about them now at the Jersulem film festival, and the popularity of the texts, and its realtionship to the Eichman trial, and the pyschosexual devolpment of Isreal as a nation is fascinating.

Here where a reserve soilder talks about the books in his own sexual devolpement.

with the immortal line, I fuck her on behalf of the 6 million.


The first two minutes of the doc.



one of the few covers that feature hitler. (who in this peice looks like frankenstein or something safely mgm and fictional)



Dragon's Fucking Cars, via Warren Ellis

places that my photo has turned up, that i learnt after searching technocrati

1) cbc radio three (i have been photo of the day twice, i only knew about it once)
2) wired magazine's complier blog
3) three porn commentary sites, including one in polish
4) four christian living sites (including living on sundays, and a christian life)
5) something called dating playbook
6) the front page of flickr, in the most interesting section
7) a romanian graffiti sites

thot everyone would like to know

Pastoral - Moonlight (from Camera Work) A photogauve by Steichen (it's nice, it features sheep) sold at Christies last night for 3250. Three other photogauves from Camera work sold as one lot for 1825. None of these were later impressions, and all were printed from the late 1910s. In Feb 2006 an autochrome by Steichen was sold for 2.9m.

The photogauves are mass produced, and the autochromes are an edition of 3, and b/c of printing varrations de facto unique, but still, it doesnt explain the split.

to do in the next two days

1) library
2) this weeks magazines
3) pick up drawings from
a) u of a fine arts (2)
b) ashley's circle (2)
c) stephanie (1)
4) steering committee meeting (5 pm today)
5) meeting with ruth and marcus (10 am tomorrow)
6) meet w. joe (one pm tommorrow)
7) buy crosses, etc (terra losa center)
8) dinner with graham (6 pm)

OOGA-BOOGA. By Frederick Seidel. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.) Having delivered his fin-de-siècle masterpiece, “The Cosmos Trilogy,” in 2003, Seidel could certainly be forgiven for taking it easy this next time out, but he needn’t be cut any slack: these new poems are as beguiling and magisterial as anything the septuagenarian jet-setter has written. I can’t decide whether Seidel has more in common with Philip Larkin or John Ashbery, but the fact that he can prompt such a bizarre question is more revealing than any possible answer. Like Larkin, Seidel can seem a gimlet-eyed grouch whose compassion oozes to the surface despite himself, as in “A Fresh Stick of Chewing Gum,” a denunciation-cum-celebration of youth that concludes with a pensive “blank” nearly identical to the “nowhere” near the end of Larkin’s similarly arch “High Windows.” And like Ashbery, Seidel takes nearly pathological delight in the musical flotsam and jetsam of contemporary usage: “I’m getting young. / I’m totally into strapping on the belt of dynamite / Which will turn me into light. / God is great! I suck Her tongue.” Another poet might have thought to begin a stanza with the line “The most expensive hotel in the world ignites,” but probably only this one would follow it with “As many orgasms as there are virgins in paradise.” I hope Seidel wears a helmet while riding his beloved Ducati; it would be intolerable to see this great strange brain spilled.
JOEL BROUWER

From NY Times last sunday

ten american signifiers in the orgy scene from active duties soldiers love blondes.

1) the clean white bobby sox everyone is wearing
2) the wal mart issue, cheap plastic timex that someone is wearing
3) that it takes place 5 miles from the fort dix base.
4) the use of the word dude as a gender signifer.
5) phrases that could be only learnt from porn films, yet still indicate how enmeshed america is in terms of personal referent that relate to power (including champ, dude and bro)
6) the phrase power drive that shit or show him yr commando face
7) the sound of dog tags slapping against bare skin
8) the democratic nature of the roles, how everyone gets to be top/bottom, how everyone is asked if they are receiving pleasure, and how the sex practices are varied, i wonder if the recent trend of group sex in american pornography comes from the same wellspring as costco or wal-mart in american commerce
9) the use of nicknames, esp. one soilder called swedish (like people called dutch)
10) that the whole thing takes place in an anon. mcmansion with motel room art, and a bed clad in star and stripe linen.

Brett Buchanan's small photos of unfocused urban lights are really gorgeous.


Ed Ruscha, Get Outta That Spaceship and Fight like a Man, 1982.
(my favourite thing about this, is how cosmic the blue is beyond the words, like a space blue)


Found on a B3TA Challenge, about monsters.

obama's plan for mortgages, actually seems to care about the containing the excesses of late capital, and is one of the angrier planks in his platform. it continues to make me think he knows what to do in domestic matters, and has little or no idea what to do with foreign policy.



Iradji Moini's Insect Pins. (he is contempary, but looks v. edwardain), all costume, often glass, sometimes semi precious stones, but what i like about them is how sculptural they are.

a map of all the roads in england, scotland and wales, in the style of the london tubemap.

clip stamp fold a show about small architecture magazines, is in montreal from Sept 9. The website has about a dozen examples.


Grace Kelly, Still from Vertigo




Three more videos from Yo Gabba Gabba, my favourite new kids television show.

wellcome one of the largest librarys in britian, put all of their images on line under a creative commons lisc. with a really fantastic search engine.


Renee Gosberry, who as far as i know, does soaps, and records mediocre r and b, sings a miller's song, a great anthem to the libertine. it moves so quickly, and up/down the scales. the song is really fun, like a hoellander, and she is really good at it.

japan perfects the cute persian cat robot.


Matt Damon, Why Wont You Love Me?

Tilda Swinton, why wont you love me?


these photos of theran are mostly worth looking at, for the captions.


Tori Amos makes fun of LiLo, musically

david mcfaerlines collection of stamps is a perfect example of how design becomes shaped by the idea of the viewer, and how each viewer works as their own curators. the stamps are excellent too--esp the crazy space one from mongolia.


Vejia Clemins, Eraser, Painted wood, 12 x 18 x 4 inches, 1967

one of those digital abstract animation
, kind of colourfieldy, and sort of landscapey.

Thai transgendereds and gay men are presently engaging in large rumbles, with knives and fire. the story is from the sun, so its provincally british, and sort of homophobic,though.

the fanta suiteS hotel in west bend wisconisn, has a room in which you can sleep on a giant sandwhich, like oldenberg;s soft sculpture, but functional. i want to visit the fanta suites hotel in west bend wisconsin (25 other themes, including Arabian Nights, Ceaser, and Viking) (I kind of like how it is intended to be a room to fulfill sexual fantasties, and that middle american diner food is as explicitly erotic to enough people, that it becomes part of the pathenon of common fantasy--maruading viking, pirate, toga orgy, diner waitress? (locations thru out the flyover, too!)

thomas adank's photos have a sterility and artifice that become intimidating. They are often underlit, and the narratives that are portrayed have an implied violence (in the second set, the pool of dark liquid makes the implication explicit). Even when he goes outside, his aesthetic is so well contained, and without much emotion. They remind me of staged settings for government or police agencies, esp. the set with the ice bergs, 3, which are obv made of wood, but still looks like they can take down the titanic.


Panel from a GI JOE comic, mid 80s.

sqaure america has a narrative of photos from one womens life. from just before birth to late middle age. a good document of a certain kind of semi-louche glamour.

6 photos of a airshow crash in the uk. clearest photos i have seen of these.

the anchors from cbs 13 in Sacramento, reenact Larry Craig's attempted Washroom sex. Nothing turns me on more than blandly american men attempt acts of kink clearly beyond them.

23 abstract collages from Michael Greenspan. Great use of colour.