Sophie Calle At Paula Cooper
Don't miss Sophie Calle's show at Paula Cooper gallery. Oddly this has not much been written about here, even though this is the first time her enormous sweeping tribute to getting dumped has been shown in the U.S. Prepare to spend about an hour there, because the video interpretations of her breakup are particularly magical. (Yes, magical!)
I've noticed some overlap between The Awl and the old Gawker (as it was run under your supervision) but the differences have entirely been one-sided. Crap that was part of Gawker (fameball b.s. mostly) is thankfully missing from The Awl.
But I haven't spotted a post on The Awl that I immediately thought would never have been on Gawker. Until now. I'm a big fan of contemporary art (mostly because so much of it is snake oil crap but a small portion are truly revelatory), so more of this would be appreciated. I wonder why it was never on Gawker? There is much to mock in the art world and many pompous "celebrities" to expose as frauds.
Strongly Agree. More Artsy Fartsy stuff for us Arts who Fart. & have that EmilyLady write her literary-focused pieces like she usedta.
I want credits toward an MFA without leaving my iron lung.
Agree with you on the welcome addition of the art world to the mix here. It surely wouldn't have been of value to that other place, knowing what we do now about the desired readership.
But! Can we keep it classy and stay focussed on the good (say, Dana Schutz) rather than the bad (say, Dash Snow)? Failing that, how's about some gentle ribbing instead of art fameball ridicule? This looks like that, and so forth.
I've been telling myself Dash's time is up, what with the new market and all.
I nearly went to town on NY mag's thing this week on WHAT TO BUY IN THE RECESSION but for the reasons cited above I did not. Though let me state for the record down here that everything they said is pretty much wrong.
Cover your ears for the imminent squee, but eee! She's wonderful and I did not expect to see her pop up here. She manages to turn the creepiest and most obsessive behavior into lovely and heartbreaking art. The show is great.
Okay, since we're all being so smart and sophistimacated, you should note that Calle was dumped by Grégoire Bouillier, who happens to have written two EXCELLENT books about his relationships: A Report on Myself and The Mystery Guest (the latter is not about his relationship with Calle but it does revolve around how he met her at her birthday party). Both books are incredibly funny, but in a very French way, so don't expect David Sedaris rib ticklers. They're more like early Philip Roth if Roth had majored in philosophy and hadn't been such a misogynist prick.
very sophistimacated.