By Sarah Fisch on January 23, 2012
My former landlord in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a sphinx-like Teutonic manchild who sublet me one of the ad-hoc drywall sleeping lofts in the colossal warehouse he leased near the Bedford Avenue subway stop—still owes me $1200. It was my security deposit from 2008 and I don’t expect to get it back. I don’t mean this story as revenge [...]
Posted in Art Narc, Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged bad art, Beuys, Chupacabrona, contemporary art, Glasstire, good art, landlord, New York, opossum, possum trap, Sarah Fisch, Stella, warehouse, Warhol, Williamsburg |
By Betsy Lewis on September 20, 2011
Dallas has two big time auctions coming up, one this Friday at the Goss-Michael Foundation, the other in October at the Rachofsky House, each raising money for AIDS research. Visiting Goss-Michael is even more fun when the estimated values of the artwork are posted on the wall and the hard wallop of commerce enters into [...]
Posted in Don't Look. Okay Look., Uncategorized | Tagged amfAR, Benjamin Shine, Bill Clinton, D*Face, dallas contemporary, Dallas museum of art, Damien Hirst, Ervin Wurm, Faile, Goss-Michael Foundation, Haroshi, Jean Paul Gaultier, Mark Grotjahn, MTV re:define, Pam Glew, Rachofsky House, Rankin, Richard Meier, staying alive foundation, the Future Tense, TWO x TWO, Warhol |
By Betsy Lewis on August 4, 2011
In response to the record heat, I am trying to move as little as possible. Even body heat is the enemy. Therefore, engagement in anything cultural becomes problematic, so I turn to two fine resources that combine entertainment with immobility: Netflix and the iPhone. This installment of “Don’t Look. Okay Look.” pays tribute to laying [...]
Posted in Don't Look. Okay Look., Uncategorized | Tagged Anthony Quinn, Basquiat, Bill Hader, Charlton Heston, Colin Firth, David Bowie, Ed Harris, Eric Idle, Factory Girl, Gauguin, Greg Travis, Guy Pearce, Hank Azaria, I Shot Andy Warhol, iPhone, Jared Harris, Jeffrey Wright, John Cleese, Kirk Douglas, Lee Krasner, Lust for Life, Marcia Gay Harden, Men in Black, Michelangelo, Monty Python, Netflix, Pollock, record heat, Rex Harrison, Saturday Night Live, Simpsons, The Agony and The Ecstasy, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Warhol, Watchmen |