tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post2427192197975296437..comments2023-10-30T06:13:31.296-04:00Comments on PaintersNYC: Peter SchuyffPainterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05087735650298480553noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-67549354034280884802007-10-10T14:33:00.000-04:002007-10-10T14:33:00.000-04:00This used to be a good blog. Can those of you who ...This used to be a good blog. Can those of you who are hogging the forum to sound off on unrelated topics please take a fucking break? Jesus. Lay off the coke.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490725619689401252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-18371678433837517932007-09-13T12:25:00.000-04:002007-09-13T12:25:00.000-04:00once uppon a time there was a lady named peggy. Th...once uppon a time there was a lady named peggy. Then there were some other people then there were some other people.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-39828473823720371812007-09-12T17:07:00.000-04:002007-09-12T17:07:00.000-04:00And yet, no coherent new theorization has appeared...And yet, no coherent new theorization has appeared to take its place.Idon'tbathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052480971933487129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-78744982729589598162007-09-12T16:00:00.000-04:002007-09-12T16:00:00.000-04:00Gilbert has some valid points: “Radical” instituti...Gilbert has some valid points: “Radical” institutions may indeed merely serve to reassure people that things are not so bad after all. Under these conditions, the answer to the question, What is to be done? can hardly be encapsulated in a neat slogan. Just as Gilbert perhaps crossed the line from political rigor to moral hysteria, so the refusal to engage in a tactical use of even compromised institutions and media—my compliments for finding this text between ads, dear reader—can easily slip into acceptance and even celebration of the status quo.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-8659085642606646572007-09-12T15:43:00.000-04:002007-09-12T15:43:00.000-04:00ALAN REYNOLDSB. 1926ASCENDING BLUE10,000—15,000 US...ALAN REYNOLDS<BR/>B. 1926<BR/><BR/>ASCENDING BLUE<BR/><BR/><BR/>10,000—15,000 USD<BR/>Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 31,000 USDzipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-55458037328096889292007-09-12T14:24:00.000-04:002007-09-12T14:24:00.000-04:00But for every litter freak or culture purist drive...But for every litter freak or culture purist driven to indignation by Banksy there’s a person who is entranced. While setting up the show in Los Angeles, Banksy ordered a pizza, ate it, and tossed the box in a Dumpster. Within weeks, the pizza box was sold on eBay, for a hundred and two dollars. The seller suggested that a few anchovies that had been left inside might yield traces of Banksy’s DNA.Dept. of Popular Culture: Banksy Was Here: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorkerzipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-21055106443435301442007-09-12T13:27:00.000-04:002007-09-12T13:27:00.000-04:00Oh. Um, l-- look, i-- i-- if we built this large w...Oh. Um, l-- look, i-- i-- if we built this large wooden badger--zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-45572655546120278192007-09-12T09:45:00.000-04:002007-09-12T09:45:00.000-04:00it's all a mess on the ground. when u zoom out, go...it's all a mess on the ground. when u zoom out, google style, and look at how things are, you end up laughing. so fuck, a bit of play measured against some knowledge is a good thing. a nice old limp pastiche. neither here nor there, and scarcely everywhere. but when you start to agree, the game is up. conversation is inherently built upon 'devils advocacy' to keep it lit. like snails, you be pink, and i'll be blue, tonight. tomorrow is another play. can i just say that signature styles remain the of domain of karl lagerfield et al, and their place in the art markette always smells a bit funny. sometimes art really just is sublime fashion. or subject to the same marketable principles. does it matter? yes and no. are you eating out tonight, or will it be canned. hmmmm. playing out duality, just like schuyff. Photoshop vs Thrift Shoppe. High low, or Low High, or extra combos, unlock new levels of cool, High+Low+Low+High+Low. If you're playing, then Good for You! BLAAAAAA.....just buy it! Old Damien put a few together and bought his own diamond skull for fucks sake. Jeeeeez.....it's a big joke, that lingers around inside the brainicle for longer than most jokes. In the afterglow, we find the ruins of platonic meaning and other sundry bullshit. Like i said before, just strike and hold. Level 2, snow crash metaverse. Isn't it funny that art is converged upon by both extremes - the starving, and the stuffed. In one way, both aim to play with life and take risks - one because they've got little else to do and the other because they just want to. Back and forth, in and out. Cultural oscilloscope. Cell division. The guy who invented SimCity is releasing a game next year, where you start at the big bang. 5 years in the making. Whatever. <BR/><BR/>(<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOojH8RWYQ" REL="nofollow">cough</A>)webthinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326120672162293479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-17208849855030262512007-09-12T09:15:00.000-04:002007-09-12T09:15:00.000-04:00@@webthinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326120672162293479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-83702909631530465832007-09-12T08:21:00.000-04:002007-09-12T08:21:00.000-04:00OK, thanks for all that. I call this an intelligen...OK, thanks for all that. I call <A HREF="http://arts.stlawu.edu/dane/images/paintings/2007/07danedutch.jpg" REL="nofollow">this</A> an intelligent painting--on account of what's interesting with it is this <I>stuff of painting</I> , no name needed, we call homers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-84047895323070195132007-09-12T07:24:00.000-04:002007-09-12T07:24:00.000-04:00Or not trying hard enough ?Or not trying hard enough ?Idon'tbathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052480971933487129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-21436495533769219472007-09-12T07:19:00.000-04:002007-09-12T07:19:00.000-04:00It's as if Schuyff was trapped in his grandma's at...It's as if Schuyff was trapped in his grandma's attic with some cheesey 60's paintings from a cheap motel, photoshop, Mr.Bill, 80's nintendo and Q-bert.<BR/>Kenny Shcarff is in there too.<BR/><BR/>Trying too hard indeed.Idon'tbathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052480971933487129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-81026301132229551042007-09-12T06:53:00.000-04:002007-09-12T06:53:00.000-04:00BRIDGEKEEPER:Stop!What... is your quest?LAUNCELOT:...BRIDGEKEEPER:<BR/>Stop!<BR/>What... is your quest?<BR/>LAUNCELOT:<BR/>To seek the Holy Grail.<BR/>BRIDGEKEEPER:<BR/>What... is your favourite colour?<BR/>LAUNCELOT:<BR/>Blue.<BR/>BRIDGEKEEPER:<BR/>Right. Off you go.Idon'tbathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052480971933487129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-4521445128706525332007-09-12T03:57:00.000-04:002007-09-12T03:57:00.000-04:00“But the highlight for the center’s regulars were ...“But the highlight for the center’s regulars were the inspirational jihad lecture series, featuring CIA-sponsored speakers.… One week on Atlantic Avenue, it might be a CIA-trained Afghan rebel traveling on a CIA-issued visa; the next, it might be a clean-cut Arabic-speaking Green Beret, who would lecture about the importance of being part of the mujaheddin, or ‘warriors of the Lord.’ The more popular lectures were held upstairs in the roomier Al-Farooq Mosque; such was the case in 1990 when Sheikh [Omar] Abdul-Rahman, traveling on a CIA-supported visa, came to town.” One frequent instructor is double agent Ali Mohamed, who is in the US Special Forces at the time (see 1987-1989). Bin Laden’s mentor Azzam frequently visits and lectures in the area. In 1988, he tells “a rapt crowd of several hundred in Jersey City, ‘Blood and martyrdom are the only way to create a Muslim society… However, humanity won’t allow us to achieve this objective, because all humanity is the enemy of every Muslim.’” [New Yorker, 3/17/1995] Ayman Al-Zawahiri, future Al-Qaeda second-in-command, makes a recruiting trip to the office in 1989 (see Spring 1993). [New Yorker, 9/9/2002] The Brooklyn office also raises a considerable amount of money for MAK/Al-Kifah back in Pakistan. The Independent will later call the office “a place of pivotal importance to Operation Cyclone, the American effort to support the mujaheddin.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-86215742798296130652007-09-12T02:51:00.000-04:002007-09-12T02:51:00.000-04:00pnyc going through a blue periodpnyc going through a <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yFwzenAQE" REL="nofollow">blue period</A>Couples Recordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13104153019863616616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-77410467075181915322007-09-12T02:41:00.000-04:002007-09-12T02:41:00.000-04:00No I didn't realise QQ, for some reason I couldn't...No I didn't realise QQ, for some reason I couldn't access the PDF. But I guess that makes the conviction more widespread. <BR/><BR/>If he’d just painted the backgrounds himself the effect would be tedious rather than lazy. The real problem is the terms by which Schuyff tries to preserve or project his ‘signature’ - or the signature in the first place.CAPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09861096695503969576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-80459182671708884822007-09-11T23:11:00.000-04:002007-09-11T23:11:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14324284397954018873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-52758543377696567152007-09-11T23:05:00.000-04:002007-09-11T23:05:00.000-04:00A pig's snout is a synecdoche. A squeal is a meton...A pig's snout is a synecdoche. A squeal is a metonym. Unless you think the squeal is an edible part of the pig as in "I ate everything but the squeal."<BR/><BR/>Twenty snouts had I<BR/>And she had twenty squeals<BR/>My cleaver but a metonym for me<BR/>And she a synecdoche on wheels.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1247205904597152802007-09-11T22:54:00.000-04:002007-09-11T22:54:00.000-04:00Sometimes too much tenacity can lead one into a co...Sometimes too much tenacity can lead one into a corner.<BR/><BR/>-batheIdon'tbathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052480971933487129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-49517186482328557502007-09-11T22:41:00.000-04:002007-09-11T22:41:00.000-04:00The difference, if he had spent time doing a well-...The difference, if he had spent time doing a well-worn type of figurative/landscape painting and placed his forms on his own work is they wouldn't seem so lazy.<BR/>His brushwork shapes and color choices seem to mimic or look to work with and yet against those of the found paintings and look just as dingy and thrift storesque.<BR/>By the way this painting looks much better upside down.Idon'tbathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052480971933487129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-5131255592290987252007-09-11T21:45:00.000-04:002007-09-11T21:45:00.000-04:00I’d dispute Zipthwung’s distinction between synecd...I’d dispute Zipthwung’s distinction between synecdoche and metonymy but it would be too far off topic.<BR/><BR/>Does it make any difference whether Schuyff found the background paintings, had them made or painted them himself?<BR/><BR/>It strikes me the main contrast is between types of painting – Schuyff’s signature low-relief abstract shapes, mostly curved, worked with small but vigorous brushwork, strict tonal values – and the traditional, pretty hackneyed paintings on which they are placed. He could have placed them on photos (b&w/c) or fabrics (a la Polke) furniture or whatever, but the difference he’s interested in is firstly with painting, secondly with popular even well-worn kinds. He could have placed his shapes on other kinds of abstractions or semi-abstractions, but he’s after very traditional, concrete pictures.<BR/><BR/>So what does that do to his shapes? His signature? Does it give his brushwork a fresh and compelling context? Actually it seems to work the other way. The more we compare them with other kinds of brushwork or tonalities, the more trivial and meretricious <I>they</I> appear, the more remote and arbitrary his curves, loops and circles.<BR/><BR/>I agree with IDB, the portraits carry the most impact (which is not to say much) because ‘signature’ here is directly linked to identity – as the face of an individual or role. Schuyff’s identity is to a large extent tied up with his signature style, and I suppose it shows at least tenacity to persist with it after all these years, but I think there are other options to his drawing, tone and brushwork, and I don’t think this exhibition make it any stronger or attractive.CAPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09861096695503969576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-75935780475682690702007-09-11T21:44:00.000-04:002007-09-11T21:44:00.000-04:00IN 1983, after a postgraduation stint in Paris on ...IN 1983, after a postgraduation stint in Paris on a grant from the American Center, Pat returned to the States, moved to New York, and started her first gallery, on Sixth and B. Built by her boyfriend (and later, her first husband) Thierry Cheverney, it opened in November with a group show that included an old friend from Boston, George Condo. The gallery was a fabulous scene in the still shabby East Village, a provocative mix of high life and low. The works of such fledgling luminaries as Schuyff, Taaffe, Condo, Kunc, and Donald Baechler were collected by art-world heavyweights like Larry Gagosian, Charles Saatchi, Barbara Gladstone, and Thomas Ammann.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Artist Damien Hirst is purchasing his own skull. The artist is part of an investment group that’s forking over $100 million for the diamond-studded skull that Hirst himself created.<BR/><BR/>The artwork, entitled For the Love of God, has 8,601 diamonds and cost $20 million to create. It had been available since June 3.<BR/><BR/>However, with the slight dip in the art market, it had yet to sell. So, the artist formed an investment group that’s planning on sending the piece on a tour of the world’s museums and galleries, with the hope that in a few years it will net an even larger payday.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-14281264091068943692007-09-11T21:23:00.000-04:002007-09-11T21:23:00.000-04:00“At this point in my career,” Hancock says, “I wan...“At this point in my career,” Hancock says, “I want to do something that reaches into the lives and hearts of people and holds"<BR/><BR/>Well..... ouchIdon'tbathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052480971933487129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-34056979113321614352007-09-11T21:11:00.000-04:002007-09-11T21:11:00.000-04:00voodoo you do<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGCD2Z0w9s" REL="nofollow">voodoo you do</A>zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-42230862171940146942007-09-11T21:00:00.000-04:002007-09-11T21:00:00.000-04:00Hey it's the new Herbie Hancock album! Headhunters...Hey it's the new Herbie Hancock album! Headhunters II, erm, maybe not...<BR/><BR/>It's good, even if it's bad, even better...<BR/><BR/>It strikes well. And holds. Ouch!webthinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326120672162293479noreply@blogger.com