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- bill 3-04-2010 2:18 pm [add a comment]

performance art pays enough?
- L.M. 3-04-2010 2:20 pm [add a comment]

totally. egoist!!!
- bill 3-04-2010 2:21 pm [add a comment]

I missed that post with the Abramovic loft party description. Triple ouch. "At one point I thought I saw Laurie Anderson, at the other end of the table, trying to get my attention: she was smiling sweetly in my direction, as if to undo my pathetic isolation. I smiled in gratitude in return and held up my little place card so she would at least know my name. Annoyed, she gestured back impatiently, with a sharp downward flick of her index finger: she wanted me to pass the wine bottle. I was reduced to a pair of disembodied hands – like the ones that come out of the walls and give people drinks in Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast."
- tom moody 3-04-2010 4:46 pm [add a comment]

All this did was piss me off.
- Justin (guest) 3-04-2010 4:59 pm [add a comment]

i know justin. sorry about that. the transformation of manhattan to an island of millionaires is a bitter pill to swallow. the attention hungry artists that thrive in this environment are a complete embarrassment. im talking to you lou reed, jullian schnabel, annie leibovitz, et all. (thats a list starting at the top, but it runs deep.) notice the absence of any artistic credibility with this group.
- bill 3-04-2010 5:23 pm [add a comment]

One o' these days..................
- Justin (guest) 3-04-2010 7:23 pm [add a comment]

I kinda liked when she and Ulay tied their hair together...
- alex 3-05-2010 1:35 am [add a comment]

40-350K per photo....NICE

http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=1202&page_tab=Artworks_for_sale

- Skinny 3-06-2010 3:02 pm [add a comment]

granted aw. but that was in 1977 and seemingly untarnished by crass profiteering. (for me) the skinny link stuff embodies all that is wrong with the current photographic art object. just so much inconsequential cultural inventory.
- bill 3-06-2010 3:48 pm [add a comment]

funny MA being mentioned in this context. that would be a "funny ha-ha" context.
- bill 3-06-2010 4:15 pm [add a comment]

Maybe it was the three most difficult interview subjects. The one person who refused to talk at all: Nesa Paripovic, who was married to Marina between 1971 and 1976; he simply hung up the phone when I went to Belgrade to try to track him down. The one person who didn’t want to go on the record; [name withheld], because she was the only person who remained totally un-seduced by Marina’s overwhelming charisma. And the one person with whom Marina has feuded over the years even more than with Ulay: her bother Velimir Abramovic, who only agreed to talk to me on my second trip to Belgrade. His analysis of Marina was so powerful, and so crystalisingcrystallizing. After Marina’s breakup with Ulay and her increasing success in the art world, Velimir was very critical of her embrace of fame and fashion. He thought her interiority was disappearing and she was becoming like a mirror, reflecting the desires of those around her. But he said this was not necessarily a negative change. “Probably that is the change that every priest has to go through. You cannot function as a priest if you are an involved person.”

grope show
- bill 4-16-2010 11:29 pm [add a comment]