Seven Days Away

Nick Anderson

Brian Klock Is a Total Douchebag

Articles about billboards, and the women who love them, HERE and HERE.

Now that's political art.

Houston Will Miss Russell

Russell Etchen, former Hands Up Houston purveyor of indie rock, anime voice-over chameleon, Sketch Klubb member, Domy Monster and Free Press hater, is slated to move to Austin for the next two years.

Come slap the taste out his mouth with all his friends, enemies and frenemies while jammed into a back room at Spotlight Karaoke this Thursday.

Talk back, Will'ya?

The Artforum posts are pretty few and far between
as artists play the respec' game, but mondoego fucks some Schnabel up.

"I'd never see this movie because I loathe Schnabel.
Him and his goddam sarongs and pajamas at black-tie events.
And on that bloated-corpse body.
Enough already."


Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2007



haha... David Salle's exercise in sophistry HERE. Note the obsequious Citizen Kane jab.

"Subjective experience and narrative come together in his movie’s astringent and luscious gaze."
Puke.

Give This Girl a Job

Reply to: comm-582370374@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-02-21, 9:03PM CST


I would like to work as an artist's assistant or an apprentice. Preferably with another female. I have no way of paying for school and I am interested in learning... so, this is what I am looking for. Although I would need some time to myself to hold down a part-time paying position. Flexible hours would be requested.
Ideally this would include a live-in situation so I could be adequately absorbing everything, immersion.

For more info, please email. I have one health problem where I have to eat small meals 5x a day rather than pig-out the normal 3x.

I'm not interested in darker subjects art. Abstract, assemblage, or even makeup artistry OK.


It's like the 'ol guild system...

Creepsters-R-Us

Reply to: comm-586457917@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-02-25, 2:25PM CST



Young attractive caucasian couple is seeking a tfp erotic shoot, non-professional is ok or student. Just need some hot erotic black and white digitals for a private project of ours. We're laid back fun and great to work with. Looking to do this ASAP, please send your contact info or any examples of work. We are looking to do this in our home sometime this week.

Thanks so much

eek! run away!

Dallas Is Crazy

Dallas blogger Titus O'Brien is being sued for slander over a review of a student exhibit at Richland College (Dallas Community College) by Eric Trich. The best part is Glasstire editor Rainey Knutson coming out on the apologetic side.

"we all in TX are guilty of not calling crappy art out for what it is -- because the artist is such a nice person, or the venue is off the beaten track, or, well, gosh, they're trying. And I include the big museums and the big artists here as well."

I totally do that shit all the time, you can't blast everything you see.

But really- suing a guy? Let me say right now that Eric Trich sucks donkey balls in Dallas back alleys, so watch your children and leave your donkey at home. If that doesn't get the suee- one laughable character named KR Shook, aka Siros- up in arms, then it seems like it'll go away.

But what about not calling out crappy art? I kind of think it would be good to stop, but I'm negative enough already without calling out my friends.

Well if you like something please let me know, comments can be anonymous, and if it is horrible please post it up because sometimes I can't say anything and it's better to hear it that to keep making art in a delusional state.

enjoy titus's rant on his recent stalking episode! Dallas is crazy stupid...




via Titus O.

"for a refresher on this topic, go to my post from November, Smells Like Teen Spirit:
http://live.glasstire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1885


"holy mother, you never know what kind of nut job you're going to scare out of the bushes.
Some people in town called me last week to say that "Dallas Artist Siros", Eric Trich's art guru or whatever, was out for my blood. He was calling around demanding my address, my phone number, my email, whatever (he was refused). I imagine him saying;

""Siros wants the sateesfaction. I, Siros, weel eat his heart for the breakfast!" Why do I picture him with a big Greek mustache and crazy, dark Arshile Gorky eyeballs? No offense meant to Greeks or Armenians. I freakin love Arshile Gorky, and Greece - I obviously have to get more pc around here. In fact, I must say that I really feel this sort of warm humorous affection for the Zorba-esque Siros in my mind.

"First thought hearing he was after me was, stand in line brother. Second thought was, isn't this a kind of belated response? My post was months ago. Third, why would he bother? Forth, this is hilarious. Then I forgot about it.

"Well, the laughs keep coming. Siros called one of these folks again, saying that they will receive a letter soon from his lawyers. What? They have no real connection with me, short of friendship, and certainly not to my blog. Why he wouldn't just contact Rainey, or me through my own website, is beyond me...maybe because it's kind of crazy.

"But anyway, they got the letter a couple days later, certified, with lots and lots of red "CONFIDENTIAL" stamps all over it (like James Bond!), along with one for my wife.

"CC'd on the two pager, and assumed to be fellow recipients, are (drum roll please) the dean of UTA, the chair of my dept at UTA, the editor of the Star-Telegram, Randall Garrett, Ashley Casson of Gerald Peters, the Art Inst. of Dallas, the "Fort Worth Modern" (sic), my wife, Road Agent gallery, and weirdest of all, Tim Blum and Jeff Poe, my old bosses in LA, who fired me four years ago (Suffice to say it was the best thing for everyone. I still love 'em. Thanks for everything guys, if you happen to read this wondering what the hell is going on with that letter.) No Glasstire. No me. Still, a small fortune in postal costs.

"Ok, so the obvious intent is slander, and some old school indignant saber rattling. He said as much in his calls. He's mad at all the horrible things I've done to Dallas ("This isn't about Eric" he said. Uh, ok.) He wanted to really tell me off, I guess, about...well, no one really knows. He was a bit all over the place. He didn't mention copyright stuff, until the letter.

"But anyway, I got my hands on one of 'em, and it's got this weird, bad fake letterhead, and is written in bad fake legal-ese. "It has come to the attention of SGA Enterprises (New York, Los Angeles, Dallas) and London-Tokyo Investors Group that ...a certain Titus O'Brien" is using copyrighted materials, etc, contacting our lawyers, yadda yadda. "

"We are surprised that a person of Mr. O'Brien's reputation and education (not to mention a teacher at the university of Texas Arlington) would use these images for his own benefit." Etc. No address on the letterhead, but there is one on the envelope. It's the same as the one listed for "The Studio" on the big envelope enclosing the letter envelope it enclosed, that sits in a residential neighborhood in Uptown Dallas.

"Smells like Siros Spirit. I don't remember copyright credits to SGA or whoever on the cards, but as I said, those things hit the recycling bin months ago. If you've got one, check for me, would ya?

"This is all referring to the pictures I took of the pile of, uh," promotional materials" that inspired this post. Ok, fine, I'll take them down for now, check and see if we have any standing leaving them up [turns out we're good- it's a little thing called "fair use".]

"And maybe check to see if this counts as libel, since the obvious intent of the letter is to demote my rep with my bosses and colleagues, possibly scuttling my means of livelihood - not even trying to contact Glasstire at all, while writing everyone you can find out in a quick google search that I'm associated with, is certainly leaving oneself open to certain allegations.



"And hey, if I turn up missing, will you guys promise to check Siros' basement first thing?"

Doesn't Ring

I am all for revitalizing New Orleans, the painful lack of progress in the humanity department has been harsh. Bringing bowl games and corporate conferences back to the city (a presidential debate would have been nice) is money in the bank and people in the restaurants, but it isn't really helping the peripheral infrastructure.

Everett Taasevigen, 2007

Artists and photographers have used the desolate landscape of post-hurricane N'awlins as an invigorating point to leap from into an existential void. A top-to-bottom tag on a retaining wall of the red letter HINDSIGHT has made the rounds on the internet and was briefly seen on the Anthony Bourdain program No Reservations. Performing Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot on a city streetcorner in the Ninth Ward was a stroke of genius by Creative Time.

Coming soon, the next chapter in the revitalization-cum-exploitation of destruction that is the rest of the world's cockeyed response to the Hurricane Katrina / Bush-n-Brownie disaster. Prospect.1 New Orleans will attempt to pull off "the largest international exhibition of contemporary art ever presented in the United States."

Is this feasible? Dan Cameron, former senior curator of the New Museum, director of the 2003 Istanbul Biennial and CAC New Orleans director of visual arts since May 2007, intends to raise $2 million in 8 months. "Prospect.1 received $600,000 in seed money from a pair of art-world benefactors: insurance magnates Peter Lewis (former president of the board of directors of the Guggenheim Museum) and his former wife Toby Devan Lewis (a board member of the New Museum) in November 2006." via Times-Picayune

He does have New York monies and press behind him, but can he fill in the gap? Seems like the makings of a deus-ex-machina failure to me. Can New York come to NO and make a difference? Can Los Angeles? Do either of them care about the hardest hit, most of them wandering the country (Houston population of 100,000) instead of going to art exhibits in the former US Mint? I'm a debbie downer I know. But I am hopeful about both the visitor estimate of 100,000 and the contention that half of that will be Louisiana residents.

This would require 18% of the New Orleans population or 1.2% of the total population of Louisiana to visit Prospect.1 in it's 11 week run; along with 50,000 globetrotters fixin' to drop a load on the economy with their champagne wishes and caviar dreams.

By contrast, if half of the 1.2 million visitors to all Houston museums in any 11 weeks were from the city, that would be nearly 30% of the population or 2.5% of the state population. I hope the residents of New Orleans are as voracious for art as we are.

Fotofest estimates that 300,000 people will visit the 114 exhibits in Houston this March and April, and even if it is 'just pictures' that's three times the size of Cameron's "largest exhibition of contemporary art ever". Provincial as it is to proffer this total bullshit line, he may be referring to big name talents, the likes of which will be already anointed by the Holy Art Church of New York Money. Whoopee. Eh, it brings in the rich bitches. Whatever.

How can NY royalty Dan Cameron pull it off? Using "found spaces" in his sales pitch, the curator will definitely take advantage of all the wrecked spaces, abandoned homes and weed strewn lots to annex the gutter punk style. He'll call up installation and performance artists to magnify their works in front of the most "real" backdrop they've ever seen. Toucan Sam will be flown down to help mink fur wearing enema addicts find the main event through their Xanex haze.

Call all those critics you know, boy- and hop back on the Artforum horse. Careers are made on paper not in reality, so he may be able to take some good photos and get the sophism flowin' without having to back up his results in person.

Oh yeah, good luck with the 2 million bucks too.

Marfa Wins Big

Do you know where the Chinati Foundation is?

Ummm... never mind. I'll ask around. Jeez Louise, you'd think Texans would be nicer...

The two biggest films made in Marfa since Giant happened back in the day happened to both be released in time for this year's Oscars, and shit, they were the best two movies made this year!

Marfa, Texas location films No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood started with sixteen nominations and won 5 Oscars last night.

" When Hollywood needs Western desolation, it comes to Marfa, Texas."

Be careful out there y'all! Besides the fictional psychos roaming the prairie both the Trans-Texas Corridor and the success of these two films (Hollywood pays Texas town for desolation) means....

Tourists!

Emervergogoing (or something like that) Rocks

CLICK HERE
Video vs. Video
start the Nauman video about 5 seconds before turning on the Monty Python


courtesy the real blogger in Tejas

SHFL sez:

The Uncomfortables

Derek Shumate, One Love (installation), 2008

Polysics

Damn You Drunk Rooster, Pudding Disco, 2005

"Hey folks, some of you might have heard that we have been having a little trouble with the city permits here at our new location. It is not a big deal, we just have to wait until March 4th to get our paperwork cleared thorough the city.

In the meantime, we had to cancel a few shows, and we are seeking volunteers and financial contributions to help us get going again.

If you have any free time give us a call at 713-880-2100 and if you have some spare change, drop it by, or mail it, or call us with a credit card, or send it from paypal at info@superhappyfunland.com.

If all the friends of Super Happy donated however much or little they can, it would sure help us out a lot! In the meantime, our schedule will be back on track on March 4th, see ya then!"

peace,

Brian, Olivia, and Louie

http://www.superhappyfunland.com

Domy in Austin

Domy Books 2 (open April 1st)