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Oh, and that last blog post reminds me, I forgot to tell you about my recent travels in May, here’s a short recap: Went to Miami to see a magical guy named Bert Rodriguez, you can read more about him on Monday, as he will be next week’s featured Adventurer.
Miami sort of feels like it is exists outside of the USA; everyone is there getting really sweaty on the daily and everything is all-tropical-beauty-all-the-time. It is a very adventure-y destination, one moment glamorous pool party the next, delicious Cuban sugar treats at a place that looks like it was lifted whole hog out of Cuba post revolution. Here is a listing of adventures that we had: Psychic Youth performance at De La Cruz Collection, full of friends dancing for four continuous hours! WOW and HOW! I was hangin’ a lot at this bar while the inimitable Bert Rodriguez DJ’d and then a few days later we said BYE BYE to our friend Freddie, “go to Paris to be young and in love”. Then we went to NYC with some students and ART’ed it up at times with notable Miamians Ruba Katrib and Fred Snitzer to talk about art types of things. I will now share all the things we saw to emphasize the sheer volume of art happening in NYC right now. PS 1 – eh?, pretty much all closed for install of Greater New York show. Sculpture Center, a good video and a good catacomb-y downstairs gallery space, people say it fucks up the art, I say it’s awesome. New Museum, where we saw “Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection” curated by artist Jeff Koons, most of the work was sort of going for a cheap-o one/two punch of “I don’t care about a thing because I am so cool and I will shock you” which was lame but this Tim Noble and Sue Webster piece kind of made me die, which if you know me, is really a positive thing, the more visceral the reaction to art the better-ish. More importantly, we saw my friend Ari and talked about the smash success of his style blog about older adults: Advanced Style. Thankfully, we went to see Marina Abramović at the MoMa, her show was amazing and she looked gigantic, Tilda Swinton was there and looked much smaller. The Whitney Biennial was kinda whatever, we liked this video by this guy, Alex Hubbard, who we liked the day before at The Sculpture Center and I met Yoko Ono in the lobby. Besides being one of the best people of all times, she looked really hot and I won’t even qualify that with “for an older woman” . . . just plain beautiful! I was trying to play it cool around her but she is one of my idols and I couldn’t help snapping a a camera pic of her after she bid us her goodbye. Shhhhh! Don’t tell her that I am actually, not that cool. We went to literally one million galleries, seems like all the shows in Chelsea are up until June 19, 2010, so go check ‘em out if you are in the neighb. The Sonnabend Gallery was the best, their show, “Robert Morris: Felt Pieces, Blind Time Drawings and Two Films” will be up through July 2010 and you should definitely go see it, it totally reminds me of the Haida and Tlingit Native Art collection at the SAM. I never see celebs in NYC, except when I saw Grace Coddington at Uniqlo, but this time NYC was crawling with notables. We spotted Valentino near the Gagosian, his orangeyness was shocking, but he had amazingly graceful posture. Gagosian was full of ‘Roy Lichtenstein Still Lifes’ and they were too bananas; it felt like a high class car dealership but instead of cars, nice pictures. Luhring Augustine had a show called ‘Twenty Five’ to mark their 25th anniversary in the biz. It had a lot of iconic pieces that I had heretofore only read about in the late 90s in college art history class, like the heads by Janine Antoni called ‘Lick and Lather’ from 1993 aka Two busts: one chocolate and one soap on two pedestals and Yasumasa Morimura’s ‘Angels Descending Staircase’ from 1991. Andrea Rosen had a little show in the back with the hilarious name of “She Awoke with a Jerk” curated by Nigel Cooke and showed a really disparate group of arties including my favorite Georges: George Condo, and George Grosz. All the galleries on West 26th Street were off-putting especially, Greene Naftali their Bjarne Melgaard show was extremely freaky, Galerie Lelong showed the Seattle favorite, Andy Goldsworthy but it was a departure from his usual and wonderful rock swirl photos, it was focused on an all urban series called “New York Dirt Water Light”, Mitchell-Innes & Nash had a show William Pope called landscape + object + animal. The super classy Lehmann Maupin showed Lee Bul at 201 Chrystie Street and it was so pretty (dare I say, it was party inspiration to the max) but the show at their Chelsea outpost was a real snooze. The list goes on and on, but who has time to tell you how I really felt about every show. Oh, you do? Well, email me.
After all the art we needed a break and we walked the Highline for the first time – GREAT! We also saw a dead body being carted away by the coroner in Brooklyn – NOT GREAT! The end of this massive and mighty blog post, now Bert will come to the greater Seattle land area later this month and it is our job (yours and mine, I can’t do this alone) to show him about this alpine wonderland and see NO dead bodies. Oh, AND, we flew Spirit Air, which was quite the EVENT, not one I would recommend to the faint of heart or those who would be freaked out by things like a guy yelling at a woman in English on the plane to ’shut the fuck up’ and then yelling it to her again in Spanish just in case she missed it. Dramatic times and you have to buy drinking WATER? Well, anyways, good thing it was just a two hour flight. See you next week.
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