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Virgil Abloh, J.W. Anderson, Diplo e Ricky Martin erano tutti presenti al progetto di partito di Carsten Höller
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Se fossi a Londra intorno al 2008, potresti ricordare Il Doppio Club: un incongruo pop-up a tema congolese, ospitato in un magazzino del nord di Londra. Creato dall'artista Carsten Höller e bizzarramente sponsorizzato da Prada, il club / bar / ristorante temporaneo ha attratto celebrità, modaisti e club per oltre otto mesi. Probabilmente passerà alla storia come la più eccitante esperienza della vita notturna mai vista nella capitale.

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L'EVENTO DI APERTURA DI MIAMI DOPPIO CLUB DI PRADA. FOTO: PIETRO BJORK

Quasi un decennio più tardi, Il Doppio Club è riportato in vita per la sedicesima edizione di Arte Basel Miami. Per soli tre giorni, questa seconda iterazione dell'installazione artistica esperienziale ha preso il sopravvento in uno studio cinematografico degli anni '20 con un'imponente line-up, titolata dalla Principessa Nokia, Metodo Uomo e la Madonna Nera. È stato lanciato con una prestazione di Wyclef Jean, che ha radunato Miuccia Prada, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Chloe Saggio e Ricky Martin nel suo giardino tropicale illuminato al neon.

Il Prada Doppio Club Miami - in contrasto con la sua edizione originale di Londra - ha una divisione estetica, tra monocromatico e iper-policromatico. Mentre lo spazio esterno sabbioso e il suo palapa bar sono illuminati da neon colorati perfettamente proporzionati, la sezione interna sembra di entrare in un film di Tim Burton - nero, bianco e nient'altro consentito. "Prendo particolare attenzione ai dettagli", spiega Höller, che aveva incaricato i buttafuori di confiscare le cannucce colorate all'ingresso del secondo spazio, per preservare la sua identità estetica.

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VIRGIL ABLOH. FOTO: GETTY

L'artista tedesco nato in Belgio è noto per la natura interattiva del suo lavoro - spesso associato al movimento dell'estetica relazionale - in cui la percezione e il processo decisionale sono centrali. Per il suo sondaggio presso la Hayward Galleria nel 2015, i visitatori sono stati confrontati con una serie di scelte: tra la porta A e la porta B per entrare nella galleria; inghiottire una pillola da una pila sul pavimento o no (pensa Il Matrice blu e rosso); è stato buttato giù dal museo da una delle due gigantesche diapositive attaccate alla facciata della Rivasud (che ha fatto il suo acclamato debutto alla Tate Moderno nel 2006). Lo stesso concetto si applica al club di Miami, dove le persone dovevano scegliere tra due contesti drasticamente contrastanti (sebbene fossero liberi di viaggiare da uno all'altro).

E mentre il "divertimento" gioca chiaramente un ruolo importante nel lavoro di Höller (è in qualche modo sconcertante pensare di essere stato addestrato come scienziato agricolo), Il Doppio Club va ben oltre il puro divertimento. È un viaggio in cui arte, design e musica coesistono.

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"IL PRADA DOPPIO CLUB MIAMI", UN PROGETTO DI CARSTEN HÖLLER PRESENTATO DALLA FONDAZIONE PRADA MIAMI, 5-7 DICEMBRE 2017. FOTO: CASEY KELBAUGH CORTESIA FONDAZIONE PRADA

"A volte vengo a conoscere le culture attraverso la musica", ci dice Höller, indicando la line-up caraibica e sudamericana del palcoscenico all'aperto (un momento saliente del secondo giorno è stata una performance del locale, 7-pezzo Tallawah Mento Banda ). "Volevo celebrare queste comunità, che sono così centrali nel tessuto culturale di Miami", continua. Nel frattempo, la musica elettronica pesante ha dominato lo spazio al chiuso, grazie a spettacoli come Mimi Xu (conosciuto anche Coniglio Nebbioso) e il produttore di Chicago la Madonna Nera.

Allo stesso modo, nel 2008 a Londra, il dialogo tra culture occidentali e congolesi è stato al centro dell'attenzione. Höller (che divide il suo tempo tra la Svezia e il Ghana) ha viaggiato in Congo estensivamente negli ultimi 20 anni. Questo interesse, senza dubbio, fu alimentato dalla sua educazione in Belgio, la cui violenta eredità coloniale segnò profondamente il paese centro-africano. "Volevo adottare un approccio più positivistico", racconta Höller. "Il Congo è un posto enorme. Volevo celebrare quella cultura in tutta la sua vitalità e potenza. "

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HANS ULRICH OBRIST E CARSTEN HÖLLER. FOTO: PIETRO BJORK

Ora, Arte Basel Miami - uno dei momenti più esclusivi dell'agenda culturale internazionale, in cui l'uno per cento affluisce da tutte le parti del mondo - non è esattamente l'ambiente ovvio per un autentico scambio culturale. Quindi, la diversità ha in qualche modo abbandonato l'agenda, a favore dell'esperienza esperienziale glamour e guidata dal marchio? "Tu hai l'intrinseca diversità di Miami, e in più la natura internazionale di Arte Basel", spiega l'artista. "Era una folla molto variegata, imballata dall'inizio alla fine."

Indipendentemente da ciò, Il Doppio Club sarà probabilmente ricordato come la cosa più bella che è successo a questa edizione di Arte Basel Miami. E, chissà, potrebbe anche creare un campo in una città vicino a te in futuro: "È certamente una possibilità", dice Höller, che ritiene che gran parte del suo lavoro possa essere concepito come un doppio club. Si spera che la prossima tappa duri abbastanza a lungo per segnare davvero la coscienza collettiva locale.

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"IL PRADA DOPPIO CLUB MIAMI", UN PROGETTO DI CARSTEN HÖLLER PRESENTATO DALLA FONDAZIONE PRADA MIAMI, 5-7 DICEMBRE 2017. FOTO: CASEY KELBAUGH. CORTESIA FONDAZIONE PRADA

previously, suddenly related: Rem Casafresca

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Here are photos of Betty Parsons' sculptures on the dining tables at the opening dinner for the National Gallery of Art's first exhibition of modern art, held in 1973. On the walls are many Rothkos.

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The exhibition, American Art Art Mid-Century, curated by visiting MoMA alum Bill Seitz, was made up entirely of loans from private collections, because the NGA had basically no modern works, and had only barely begun to even accept works by still-living artists. [That Gorky, Kline, Newman, Pollock, Rothko, and David Smith were all dead by 1973 hadn't helped them get into the collection.]

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When J. Carter Brown became the NGA's director he made the controversial decision to hold VIP dinners in the museum itself. NGA president Paul Mellon's wife Bunny, renowned for her gardening and interior design acumen, took upon herself the role of planning flowers and decor for many of these special events.

I have yet to track down the checklist, but the show's press release [pdf] says there were 26 works by 23 artists installed in the temporary exhibition galleries on the main level. Yet these photos show at least eight Rothkos, in a room which I believe is on the far west end of the ground level.

According to Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend, by noted centenarian socialite biographer Meryl Gordon, Mrs. Mellon asked Parsons to provide some of her painted found wood sculptures-a letter in the Archives of American Art [p.23] says "10 or so," but Gordon says 14, and I count like 28-to "adorn [the] tables" at the dinner. Parsons' datebook [p.132] shows she attended.

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Mrs. Mellon was a frequent customer and friend of Parsons. Parsons exhibited her own sculptures and paintings in Washington DC's Studio Gallery beginning in 1972, and would later show Bunny's daughter's artworks in New York. There is an invoice [p.16] in the Archives of American Art for printing table cards for the NGA dinner. I think they're the gilt-edged ones in the bottom of the picture above.

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It struck me that as a dealer, Parsons had been instrumental in the careers of many of the artists in the show. Yet her own artwork was being relegated to decoration. But Gordon notes that Bunny also loaned the Rothkos. Which might mean Bunny's concept for the dinner was a two-artist show. Notice above, the table under the Rothko which has nothing but Parsons sculptures on it. Also, wow, every place setting has its own ashtray and embossed matches.

Quoting Lee Hall's 1991 illustrated biography of the gallerist, Gordon wrote that Parsons worried the partygoers "will hate my work." She also wrote that all "her table sculptures for the National Gallery sold out." Wait, what?

These photos, from the National Gallery of Art, are in the gloriously digitized Betty Parsons Gallery papers at the Archives of American Art. [aaa.si.edu]
Meryl Gordon spoke about her biography of Bunny Mellon at the NGA on October 15, 2017 [nga.gov]
The press release for American Art at Mid-Century says the show is the first of two, but I haven't found the second [nga.gov, pdf]
Buy Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend via Amazon [amazon]

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In writing yesterday's post, I realized I've come back to Ellsworth Kelly's "Notes of 1969" before.

What strikes me now, besides the quote I used for yesterday's title, was this:

Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom; there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.
Sometimes I feel this, too, but with guilt or ambivalence, not freedom so much. I also think about how brick walls have become surfaces, and how most bricklayers now have been replaced by machines.

Download and listen to Better_Read_018_Ellsworth_Kelly_Notes_of_1969.mp3 [mp3, 6:35, 6.7mb, via greg.org]

Previously:
related/impetus: I Found An Object And Presented It As Itself Alone
not really related, but I do want to own this Google search: Ellsworth Kelly Dancing Monkey

very much related, 2012, still thinking about how to handle these: Google Art Institute Project
2011: What I Looked At Today: Ellsworth Kelly's Writing

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Ellsworth Kelly Red Blue Green, 1963, oil on canvas, tho tbh this looks like someone's sneaking a vector drawing onto wikipedia, collection: mcasd

In a 1969 text published in 1979 and revisited often since, Ellsworth Kelly looked back at how he learned to look:

Looking through an aperture (a door or a window) is a way that I have been able to isolate or fragment a single form. My first memory of focusing through an aperture occurred when I was around twelve years old. One evening, passing the lighted window of a house, I was fascinated by red, blue, and black shapes inside a room. But when I went up and looked in, I saw a red couch, a blue drape and a black table. The shapes had disappeared. I had to retreat to see them again.
As we come to understand Kelly's work as his direct presentation of objects he encountered, it will change the way we, too, see the things around us.

In completely unrelated news, here is an extraordinary traveling awning salesman's sample from the 1940s.

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dimensions: 19 1/4" x 18" x 10 1/2"

Ellsworth Kelly "Notes of 1969" [pdf] was originally published in 1979 by the Stedelijk in Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings and Sculptures 1963-1979 / Schilderijen en Beelden 1963-1979. What we all need, though, is the Ellsworth Kelly Catalogue Raisonné. [wfu.edu, amazon, amazon]

The "Roofing Salesmans Sample" [sic] is lot 1118 in Dan Morphy's December 9, 2017 advertising auction update: sold for $225. [liveauctioneers via @presentcorrect via @marybanas via @bshaykin]

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Our Guernica Cycle - EB-5, 05.06.2017, in the style of George W. Bush, 2017, oil on canvas, 50x80cm (20x28 in.)

On May 6, 2017, The New York Times reported, Jared Kushner's sister met with potential investors in Beijing, trying to raise $150 million for the family's Jersey City real estate project. She was promoting the EB-5 visa program, which essentially sells US green cards for making a $500,000 investment. Her PowerPoint slide showed photos of "EB-5 Visa Key Decision Makers," including Senators Grassley and Leahy; DHS Secretaries Jeh Johnson (ex-, obv.) and Gen. John Kelly (now ex-, too, obv., and White House chief of staff); -and her brother's father-in-law (and boss) Donald Trump.

Jared Kushner still owned major stakes in his family's business at the time, having transferred only some of his holdings to his other family members when he became a White House employee. He would subsequently revise and refile his financial disclosure forms repeatedly to include previously undisclosed conflicts, contacts, and investments.

Kushner had tried mightily during the transition to secure Chinese investment in his company's overleveraged flagship property, 666 Fifth Avenue. His efforts failed, and his partner, Vornado, has since declared that their ambitious plan to redevelop the office building into a multi-use megatower-and refinance it at a much higher valuation-was no longer feasible. The property is on track to go bankrupt as early as 2018, putting the Kushner's equity at risk.

Our Guernica Cycle - EB-5, 05.06.2017 is the second painting in an ongoing series. I now see the Our Guernica Cycle as proceeding in roughly chronological order. It is November, and the outrageous Guernica moments since May are obviously piling up like leaves in the gutter. But the pace of disaster puts us all at risk of forgetting or acquiescing to the obvious wrongs of just a couple of months ago. If painting can do anything at all, it should be able to recalibrate our narrative clocks a bit.

So here is a painting, and a pyramid of prints, of the US president's family hyping his political power to sell visas in exchange for investing in their private real estate company.

While it is similarly painted in China, in the attempted style of our still-most-relevant painter,
George W. Bush, EB-5, 05.06.2017 obviously differs from the Ivanka / Merkel 03.17.2017 work in several ways. For one thing, it's done before you decide to buy it. I honestly cannot imagine how this helps. But then, given what we all knew going into it, I could not imagine why anyone, including me, would want to have an awful painting of Ivanka & Merkel in my life, either. Even more than before, this is a case of urgency, of feeling the need for an image of a moment of a crisis to be produced, disseminated, and preserved, even while the crisis continues. To bear witness, to #neverforget.

This work is further complicated by having the actual picture of Trump in it. Could it be any tougher of a sell? On the bright side [sic], the execution of the image is, I believe, more skillfully Bushian than ever. So at least it's a good bad painting of a corrupt cabal. Right? And anyway, the gradient is probably the best part.

The Modified Kinkade Pyramid is in effect, and all prints will be available in the identical sizes and editions as the first work. However, blighting the image by hand will only take place upon request. So please make a note if you want more blight. The print was made available first to original Kickstarter backers, and now it is available generally, for a limited time. It is discounted 10% because y'all are all VIPs to me, but also to take into account a better sense of actual production and shipping costs. As before, any surplus will be turned back into producing the next images in the Cycle.

Literally no one has asked, but it is possible that the first print, Ivanka / Merkel 03.17.2017 could be made available as well.

Thank you again for your engagement during this ongoing disaster.

Select Print/Edition Size
[via paypal]

Previously: UPDATED: Our Guernica Cycle - Ivanka / Merkel 03.17.2017

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Untitled (Mnuchin Gallery), 2017, printer's proof. ink on rag, 27x31.5 in., $860., limit one per collector, image: ap/jacquelyn martin via @_cingraham

Art and the Mnuchins can never get too far apart from each other. Today Steven Mnuchin was photographed by the Associated Press holding the printer's proof for a new print edition, Untitled (Mnuchin Gallery). It is issued in a signed and stamped edition of 10, plus 4 artist proofs.

Half of the edition is a #monochrome painting on an uncut 50-subject sheet of $1 bills signed by Steven T. Mnuchin. If you asked me this second the only possible color would be black, insta goth dom leather glove black, into the conscienceless pits of hell black, fund passthrough tax cuts by raising taxes on everyone else and gutting health care soul black, but that might change.

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Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled (paper painting), 1953, 18x14x4 in., shoe box tissue paper, glass, wood base. lost or destroyed.

The other half is 50 $1 bills signed by Steven T. Mnuchin, shredded by hand, in an appropriately scaled perspex display case inspired by Robert Rauschenberg's lost Untitled (Paper Painting) of 1953. All examples are accompanied by an engraved, signed and stamped certificate of authenticity.

As moneyfactory.gov [srsly] has only begun producing Mnuchin notes today, and moneyfactorystore.gov only offers uncut notes from 2013, with former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's signature on them, the actual release date for this edition is still to be determined. You may add your name to the waitlist.

Previously: Untitled (Mnuchin Gallery), 2017, pdf
Related: Untitled (Crystal Bridges), 2015
2011: ArtCash by Warhol, Rauschenberg, et al for E.A.T., including bills featuring the ur-print-your-own-money traitor Jefferson Davis

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Sean Hannity going full Glenn Beck on Fox News, via @mikedelmoro

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Mike Kelley, Entry Way (Genealogical Chart), 1995, via phillips

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Mark Lombardi, Banco Nazionale del Lavoro, Reagan, Bush, Thatcher, and the Arming of Iraq, c. 1979-1990 (4th version), 1998, collection: moma.org

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Spring (Yellow Curve), 1984, paper on postcard

So far you are not sending me all the Ellsworth Kelly postcards like I asked, so I am forced to find them myself.

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Summer (Blue Curve), 1984, paper on postcard

Oh wow, here is something wonderful which I have never seen before: a set of Ellsworth Kelly postcards. Four identical postcards, each with a varied but similar collaged element, a very Kelly-esque quarter circle, rotated within a frame, and titled with the four seasons.

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Autumn (Red Curve), 1984, paper on postcard

They're almost Kelly paintings, but not quite: the blue curve seems to have a gradient, and the yellow curve looks like it's covered in raindrops. They're affixed on a tsuitate, a stationary, single panel Japanese screen that blocks views and drafts through a doorway. The combination of primary curves collaged with Asian art reminds me of some works Gabriel Orozco showed at Marian Goodman in 1994; they were remixes of overlapping circular cutouts from exhibition catalogues for Chinese scholar rocks and Ellsworth Kelly paintings. They were fantastic, and all sold, alas, and I am baffled that I can't find a single image of them online right now.

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Winter (Black Curve), 1984, paper on postcard

Anyway, the image Kelly set each curve into is Japanese, a woodblock print. It turns out it's by Kitagawa Utamaro, an illustration from a 1789 collection of New Year's poems called Waka Ebisu. I can't yet figure out where Kelly might have gotten his postcards; maybe his 1984 exhibition history will yield a clue. [update: nope.] But Harvard has the print. The Met has the print, but has never shown it. The British Museum has the whole portfolio, and the best online documentation. The British Library's online resource is a copyright-grabbing embarrassment. If I make my own Kelly Four Seasons collages, I'll use their paranoid watermark jpg just because.

The scene is titled Saru-hiki [Monkey Trainer] and shows a troupe of performers visiting the house of a daimyō during New Year's. Musicians accompany a dancing monkey in a kimono as the refined ladies of the house look on, some peeking around the tsuitate and others watching from behind semi-opaque bamboo screens called sudare.

Kelly presumably sent the postcards to his partner Jack Shear, because Shear donated them to MoMA in 2011, in honor of four refined ladies of that house, who have long supported Kelly and his work: Kathy Fuld (Spring); Agnes Gund (Summer); Jo Carole Lauder (Autumn); and Marie-Josée Kravis (Winter). So who does that make the dancing monkey?

Ehon waka Ebisu 絵本龢謌夷 (The Young God Ebisu, an Illustrated Book) [britishmuseum.org]
Previously, related: Ellsworth Kelly Postcards: Wish You Were Here!

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Our Guernica Cycle - Ivanka / Merkel 03.17.2017, 2017, 50x80cm, oil on canvas and associated print editions, greg.org

Happy apparent Birthday, Ivanka!

I've been staring at her distorted portrait for so long, it took the shock of the news yesterday to make me realize I have not actually, officially, gone public with the results of the first picture I Kickstarted. "Our Guernica, by Our Picasso," an historic painting to mark the moment last March when Ivanka Trump turned up in a White House meeting with the leader of the free world, Angela Merkel, executed in the style of George W. Bush.

In the course of production of the pyramidful of print editions, plus some canvases, the project became Our Guernica Cycle, and Ivanka/Merkel 03.17.2017 became the first image, unfortunately, and not the last. I've now lived with these images for almost six months. All but two of the project backers have received their merch [the last two canvases are staring at me right now, set to be shipped before the opioid crisis is solved.]

And a new image is complete. It is a moment for reflection. Also a moment to celebrate getting these things out of the house. And I'm still asking the question I started with: what is art supposed to do? What is a painting for? The image I ended up with is terrible. In the process of applying the Kinkade-ian custom "highlights," I realized they could only and ever make things worse. I started calling them "highblights," or just "blight." I gave backers the choice between "more blight!" and "it's bad enough!" and they split almost evenly. With the last works going out the door, I am still undecided.

What does it mean, too, for an artwork to be experienced only [or largely] privately, by its purchasers? It is the antithesis of a Guernica; it's My Own Private Guernica. Our Guernica.

The greatest outcome from this project has to be the show of support, the collective, shared outrage combined with an open-eyed engagement with art, even knowing it will not solve the horrible problems looming all around us. 59 people bought prints that didn't exist of an image that hadn't been created yet, in order to see it happen. And that is amazing, and I am very grateful. Maybe the real Our Guernica is the friends we make along the way.

Six months later, though, we're obviously not through this. The world has not ended [I'm writing this at 11:39 on Monday night. Oh, I'm just about to publish it at 1PM on Tuesday.] The world has not ended, but our town square is still being strafed by Nazis. So Our Guernica is Our Guernica Cycle. What does that mean?

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In the spirit of #thisisnotnormal, I've been working my way through images and possibilities, with the goal of accurately witnessing and capturing the political horrors and threats that surround us. Even more than Guernica, I've been thinking of Goya, whose Disasters of War series, 80+ prints whose creation occupied decades, and which Goya did not anticipate publishing in full in his own atrocity-rattled lifetime. I've especially come to appreciate the Chapman brothers' Insult to Injury project, [above] where their clownish embellishments of a Goya Disasters of War portfolio condemned the folly of Bush & Blair's Iraq War. [Called it, obv.]

So I expect this series will go on a while. After the backers were taken care of, I used the rest of the Kickstarter project funds to commission the next painting. It, too, has arrived. I think I will invite the original backers to order one first, but it should be available soon. It, too, was created with instructions to look like George Bush had painted it. The Chinese painters I'm working with seem to have gotten a little better at this bad style. Perhaps that will be when we know the Cycle is complete: when the #ChinesePaintMill system designed to industrialize Gerhard Richter's paint-from-photo tactics can successfully reproduce the clumsy expressionist facture of the man who is still, alas, America's most relevant painter. So stay tuned.

Our Guernica, After Our Picasso [kickstarter]
Previously, related: On Coming Around on Insult to Injury

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I'm stoked to be speaking this coming Sunday, Oct. 29, with Anne Doran and Deborah Treisman, about their new book, The Dream Colony: A Life in Art by Walter Hopps. The discussion and book signing will take place at Alden Projects™ on the LES, starting at 6pm.

Todd Alden has an incredible-sounding show up right now which provides a nearly perfect backdrop and context for a discussion of Hopps and the emergence of the post-war LA art world: a collection of 66 exhibition posters for Ferus Gallery, which Hopps founded with Ed Kienholz, which was then taken over by Irving Blum.

I imagine the talk will draw heavily on Doran & Treisman's book, which they created from over 100 hours of interviews with Hopps; and on the posters themselves, which Hopps, and later Blum, often created in collaboration with the budding artists themselves, including Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol.

It should be a great talk about a great read in a great show, so do try and come.

You could buy The Dream Colony now via Amazon, but why not get a copy from the authors on Sunday night? [amazon]
Ferus Gallery: Between The Folds runs through Nov., 19, 2017, at Alden Projects™ [aldenprojects.com]

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