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"'It's a lot of kids in skinny jeans, black Keds and gauzy scarves. Big fucking deal!' said [Bruce] Hackney. 'You can go on the L train and see the same people!'"
-Former art dealer Bruce Hackney explaining what will be missed when Jeffrey Deitch closes up his downtown gallery to move to Los Angeles to be the chief honcho of MOCA.
You can see those kids at the Short Hills Mall, too.
THE SHORT HILLS MALL!
But, no, not really true. At the Short Hills Mall you can see a lot of kids in bootcut jeans, Uggs, black Northface fleeces, and a dog that poops on the floor of the mall and they just walk away like nothing happened and don't fucking clean it up ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
Isn't it weird that now there's an American Apparel right next to the Abercrombie and Fitch? I feel like it means something but I'm not sure what.
Interested to see where Kristin Baker will land.
This all made no sense when I read MOCA as "Museum of Chinese in America".
Making Fun of Hipsters is not Cutting Edge.
Neither is bourbon, but that doesn't make either easy to quit.
Small Batch Single Malt will ALWAYS be cutting edge.
I've found that scotch has much the same effect on me as making fun of hipsters: First, a growing warmth in my heart. Then a soothing daze, accompanied by an inaccurate assessment of my own awesomeness.
Unless it is making fun of those neo-cavemen. Seriously, what the fuck was that?
Too much 'Yes.'
THEY'RE CLOSING THE DEITCH GALLERIES?! HOW DID I NOT UNDERSTAND THAT UNTIL THIS MOMENT?! In all honesty, those are some of my favorite galleries, putting up some of the most entertaining shows in the city. But, then, I'd be wearing skinny jeans right now, if I was wearing pants at all. So who cares what I think.
I actually care a little what you think!
i can't think of a nicer thing to hear, especially on the day I finally, actually, 100% ran out of money.
HE'S JUST JEALOUS
Do art critics really use the term "Hail Mary pass"?
Only when talking about Leonardo Da Vinci
I remember when only dorks wore Keds. And, um, me.
He is going to really love that job.
Skinny kids / skinny jeans? Who cares, or rather, isn't that the point that conceals the point:
"Deitch has a way with the wealthy, having spent the past 20 years advising and selling artwork to rich people, and the 9 years before that as an art adviser in the employ of Citibank. He has a network of collectors at his fingertips whose support the financially unstable museum-which avoided closure in 2008 only because its founding chairman, Eli Broad, provided a bailout of $30 million-could use as it is nursed back to health."
I hope the money he reigns in isn't in those rapidly inflating Deitchmarks.
You are completely made of correct.
That Deitch puts a stamp of approval on the extroverted performances and "renegade" art that these (we, I'm wearing Levis 511s) skinny jeansters would be doing with or without him just means he knows how to connect the underground to money. Which doesn't make art more accessible to folks "not interested in art," it makes it less. Deitch doesn't use these graffitos/skaters/bands to bring in those outside the art scene, it places them within the art scene and hence cut off from those outside it.
Shabullshit. But of course, I'm not dumb enough to think that the museum curators aren't just as big on being svengalis/starfuckers. I'm dumb, but not that dumb.
The real question is, how far up Jeffrey Deitch's ass does Eli Broad's arm fit? All the way? Mid-bicep? Only up to the elbow? I think the world is about to find out.
Total nonsense.
http://picasaweb.google.com/bryanthemusical/DeitchProjectOpeningParty#
They will love him in LA.