Month: October 2011

let’s get snacks

while the floor is drying

hmm hmmm hmmm

look i made my bed into a pretty princess bed
i am trying to make my apartment really nice one step at a time

went on some fun studio visits

stefan’s studio on mott

hmm what is cookin

he has a weird downstairs neighbor

this is happening
you know that i don’t curate this wall anymore right?
i just did (with suzanne + meghan) the Barry McGee wall, and (with meghan and paul kasmin) the Kenny Scharf wall
Tony Goldman is doing his own shit now!

it’s cool
hopefully i get to do another wall in the future with some cool people

eric and i bumped into some twins in the coffee place but i was too embarrassed to talk to them

went to look at Bowery Hotel basement show again

easier to see cool pieces without hordes

hmm hmm hmmm

eric camera

what else

i drink martinis now because then i tell myself i am drinking less because i get wasted faster
hmm

installing is the funnest time

i dont want to spoil the surprise
the fucked up shutter is helping

hmm

there are two things wrong with this picture
the cock is not one

today is freezing

this post is all over the place
its ok we are in intermission

good morning soho house!

good morning huge hung of bloody beef and yorkshire pudding!

francesca gavin let me interlope on her big artist dinner for all the artists she has curated into soho house collection

i only take bathroom self portraits when i have had too many scotch on the roxes

hey whats that

does that say ESPO SEVER WE GOT BEEF
probably from back when meat still got packed over here

now just gullets get packed full of fancy desserts

omagod

painting party AGAIN
this time may brought her mom!

yay!!!!

i really like this poster juxtaposition
we are adding more posters for holiday shopping soon!!!

fab brought over like 35 pounddds of vietnamese food omg

matthew and i working hard
(not totally, we kind of just drank tons of wine and talked about optimism)

kembra in Christian Mitchell’s one night show and party

milkin it!

ran out to look at a space for a maybe amazing new hole project, i can’t tell you more yet tho!

smokin alley

yay christian’s event!

we loaned him space to have fun photo show and book party for his new book

it went awesome

what’s this?

roxy who dyed my hair craze also made us dyed FURS for the shop!
omg

then i dropped by nu mu for the full casten holler experience

ho hummer
saw this at Art Unlimited in … 2006?

ho hummer rode this slide at Tate Modern in .. 2008?

OMG im totally kidding
who can even pretend to be all “been there done that” when presented with three-story SLIDE???

whee!

the only response is whee

decided NOT to take random pill

its kathy

disgorge!
disgorge your prey

there we go

poot!

never seen these before tho

HEY FUCKTARD turn off your phone and look at the fishes

oooOooo

(smelled like balls)

the new mu “with generous support from the board of trustees” rented the space to the right of them for this

uhh

roberta smith got out in time i think but they did grab matthew higgs

dear performance artist you are wayyy too close to me

oop they got one

into the bug

pretty

they slowly rounded up all the viewers and fed them to the bug
i barely escaped as well
it was kinda …. fun actually

yay!
i love being arts editor of i-D

i got to write dis

we got to print dis too, our next show Matthew Stone!
November 1st

and i got to write dis!

and next issue i get to do Steve Powers and Robert Lazzarini! out the end of november just in time for our awesome MIAMI SIDE PROJECTS trust me you are going to be excited

i like that whenever i write “curating” spellcheck asks if i mean “crating”

this post has two fun events, two photographers, and at least a little bit of art i promise

BLORP today was the last day of Evan Gruzis’ exhibition and a few hours after the show closed Jorge had everything magically off the walls and packed and labeled, WOW

it’s 1AM and i just finished two 3000 word articles and the gallery is empty!

i am really impressed

ha ha look at these crazy boots she owns

they go with her new look
cargo cords and baby tee

(we were stoned)

the only time i like this thing is when it rains and you can see Kenny underneath 🙂

has it been raining a lot? i have been sitting at my computer for what feels like five days straight and dont know

back to this thing!
Evan made this for our True Religion dinner they threw to celebrate him

Fat Radish chefs in Skinny Hallway

yay fancy!

yay!!!!
true religion showing HOLE how to throw it fancy

totalyl into it

i love fat radish food but i must say i think all dishes have hidden beets….

john got excited to play music so jon got excited to find our basement fog machines

teddy, well, he’s just excited

am i psychologically disturbed because i think it is poignant that all fancy dinners just end up like this?

no im ok

some new little galaxies on the wall

now that show is over we all get to try on fun geisha wig

ha!

fabiola got some sexy shoes at INA and got me the funnest big silk dress and cashmere glove thingies!

so i had nice outfit for our big poetry night

was it last night?? my brain hurts
this is Jeru the Damaga

did i spell that right?
if not i am EXTRA embarrassed

look its lance!

look poetry faces

look its Pablo Lopez!
you dont remember because it was before i kept blog but Pablo was my roomate back in like 2003 with his then boyfriend named Nono, best name ever, and i think Dylan Walker was around then too?
wow awesome

Pablo looks like he is from another decade, huh?

one poem was a song and it was good

Mikey David Quattlebaum

i remember when mikey first came to new york he and i had a long kinda jittery conversation about “putting yourself out there” and “contributing to the downtown community” and it is such a thrill to see him doing it

the Hole’s own Derrick Harden

i like that he couldnt quite remember his poem
it took some of the fussy seriousness out of things
poems can make me nervous
and embarrassed
im sure you feel that way too

tim was so embarrassed by poetry he put his hood on and then after a while just had to leave
ha ha tim!

the place was packed
poetry!
who knew??

stefan knew
he organized the night

his poem was insane
it was kinda like a long rant about the art world in all its failings and an exhortation to young artists to put more poetry and depth into their work
but it was crazy. i think he made fun of deitch? and when he said “art dealers in high heels and coke deals” or something, i felt bad that i had worn platform wedges to the party 🙂

Rene Ricard was next and last

i should have gotten video i hope someone did
he just read notes jotted in a notebook

mini poems
straightforward and fun and gleeful and strange

he was a friend of Dash’s and Dash’s gleefulness i guess it was, well, i can see where he got it, i can see why they liked each other so much

one poem was like
“joe,
sober 26 years
congratulations, joe!”

but the way he said it!

then i ate weird spaghetti with leaves

i probably should have ordered this because full of pasta i went home and fell instantly to sleep and missed Spencer’s friday party which is always fun and wah-wah i am such a fucking loser sometimes

clown cab

today
jeez looks like all i did was eat Pinkberry

with john holland

and let him try out my hair

just when you thought this blog had no art!
eric cahan took photos at the dinner and let me upload them and i got some fun presents from his memory card

i dont know what this is but i like it

that piece on the left looks like Ry Fyan made it

oh that makes sense because it appears we are in stefan simchowitz’ house

i recognize those shapes!

yay! rosie and morris

three shapes

whee!
maybe eric is a realyl good photograher….

stefan

kathy but i dont look supercute i look meh

john n jorge

i think this is me giving toast? or about to? or just did

in front of all these fancy people listed in these links!

VOGUE

style.com
ELLE
fashion week daily

the journal

shit we should really do dinners more often, or rather True Religion should because they made this awesome night happen

oh boy

ok martin sometimes looks like nick

not right now

but he nonetheless is fucking photogenic as fuck

john

kembra

goodbye to evan and hello to matthew stone and matt stone!

not feeling very captiony today

hahaha!!!
new Hamburger Eyes for shop
i think this is stefan simikitch?

new jewelry for shop from Stefania Pia

new “Day in the Life” books from Tim for shop

🙂

new visiting parents in DC (not for shop)

ah suburbs

suburban malls

suburban tennis playing

what is my outfit
yuck dont look

!

suburban older brother
actually he lives in Pittsburgh now
which sounds pretty fun

suburban quince shrub
(do not sample the suburban quinces)

made dinner for parents

whee!

suburban mornings

got some cool books when i was home

suburban sunset

urban sculpture

urban protest!
stefan has been occupying things

brooklyn studio visit
with matt jones

Cady Nolan / Wolverine?

all about the nice details

wee one

matt!

guess how he made this

i want the hole handful

Kadar Brock around the corner

exciting!

ooo i am really loving these details

he takes old paintings and coveres them and destroys them

awesome

silky smooth
i love getting to touch art

i became curator chiefly so i could touch all the art

hot wires!

i think we were next to kenny scharf’s studio!

Smile!
this has fava beans on it

interesting

interesting

oh wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

what satisfaction cans’t thou have tonight?

this blog has a smell

new york dirt pile birthday

“it’s always somebody’s birthday”

sigh

let’s explore a new place

i got stuck with window seat now you get stuck with AIRPLANE PHOTOS

good morning, jet lag

nice to see you again

unnatural lighting

false morning

bleary fake sunning

window seat

guess where i am !

i am on the heathrow express

i am trying to find the Bethnal Green tube

i made it to Wynd’s house!

i love wynd’s house
this juxtaposition sums it up

you guys know about wynd right?

click the LINK

white cube was not into me taking photos of their Raqib show

Matthew Stone and I walked alll over the place and rode on tops of buses and talked about his show November 1

we went to the Doug Aitken opening at Victoria Miro

got to hang out with Ole and some Copenhageners

kate and vita came down to visit with me and the only photo i have of it is this plate of herring

and of the ridiculous english breakfast we had the next morning

and of the million dehydration drinks christian and i ordered before the fair

no fair!
hung out in the VIP room with Suzanne and then had to run to meet Francesca

we had fancy lunch and her sister made this

back to the fair
this piece got christian’s best in show

shrigley

lambie

bradley

lee lee lee

shit on a Stingle

balls on a prince

why was this in Salon 94 booth?

i am confused

scharf in there too
hmmm

jack hanley had simon evans

a great Jack Pierson from the 90s

a fucking awesome Cjohanson

british people LOVE to queue

art fair art fair lets all queue for the art fair

rashid johnson maybe first piece ive liked

pretty great

this the text was infared and could only see through cell phone or camera

i like this guy

i studio visited him long time ago with simchowitz remember?

someone explain this to me

did aaron young recreate these tags
how
what
what is this

marc hundley at team

cory arcangel at team

banks at team
they have a pretty banging team

the dude from breeder said this was the hottest street artist in athens
pasting this all over monuments and shit

craze

aurel in the pace london booth

titty city

she do show at pace london next year!

forgot

daniel richter wait is that his name
shit

eddie martinez in Peres Projects booth SHIT it came out blurry

detail crispy

alex israel, love it

love it

javier and joe bradley and some gum

yummy yummy yummy ive got gum in my tummy

don’t it make a man sick?

someone pointed at this and said “this is exactly the kind of thing you like” and i was like
what
what
ack

my secret shame is that i like things like this
“digital”
“painting”

friedrich vaerslav

the terazzo guy
i like to pronounce his last name “weiner slave”

canada booth joe bradley r crubly blow outs

woo hoo!

new Phaidon painting book finally putting xylor in her place

the piece on the left JDAY was in CONSTRACTION i did in 2008 and sold to middle east museum awesome

standing the the Standard Oslo booth drunk talking to Solveig from Kunsthalle Bergen

remember this from Rosson and I last winter?

Ramiken Crucible had cool booth

and took us out to smoke the side door

someone put art fair trash next to the weiner slave

gotta watch out where you put art fair trash because someone might think it is a piece and buy it

why is there a dash piece on this piece

andrea said this was one of dan’s professors at nyu?

sneaking up on Andrea at Andrea Rosen

i hung out with nicky too but i fucking dont have a picture
why is there a picture of dash on this
i ask myself these questions

new David Altmejd awesome

last piece
hope you liked my frieze tour
CECI N’EST PAS UNE DIPTYCH

got to eat fish and chips at least once thank goodness

and back at motherfucking heathrow

stuck in a fucking window seat again

i am too fucking tall for this shit

and too old i think for 48hour jet lag business trips

or too young????

i really should leave the office before i start drinking all the leftover wine in the basement….

consider yourself warned

so! you know how i made up this joke

what happens when a deer and a car kiss?

deer carcass!

well ben jones made a variant

what happens when a deer and a outdoor product manufacturer kiss?

he gets a John Deere letter on the table the next morning

here’s a joke

Knock Knock
Who’s there
Jim Drain

Jim Drain Who?
This awesome artist from Providence, RI

Knock Knock
Who’s there
Jim Drain

Jim Drain Who?
This awesome artist from Providence, RI

Knock Knock
Who’s there
Ara Peterson

Ara who?
ARA n’t you glad i didn’t say Jim Drain?

ben and christina helped me with that one

i am not that punny today sorry guys
i have been reading PG Wodehouse books to try to brighten my sprits and he is much funnier

as david foster wallace my favourite author wrote, “PG Wodehouse is timelessly witty and mean”

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say “when!”

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

The lunches of fifty-seven years had caused his chest to slip down to the mezzanine floor.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

He’s as jealous as billy-ho. Smear a bit of burnt cork on him, and he could step right on to any stage and play Othello without rehearsal.

He uttered a stricken woofle, like a bulldog who had been refused cake

She spoke with the mildness of a cushat dove addressing another cushat dove from whom it is hoping to borrow money.

A chap who’s supposed to stop chaps pinching things things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.

If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!
(you guys know my favourite word to mispronounce is poignant. i articulate the G)

A covey of mildewed females whom he had classified under the general heading of Aunts.

She looked like something that might have occurred to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

She looked at me like someone who has just solved the crossword puzzle with a shrewd “Emu” in the top right hand corner.

…fell into the washing machine and did as many revolutions per minute as a small African republic….

He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

Why don’t you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them?

Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I’m all for it.

Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.
(now that is a pretty weird one!)

She had more curves than a scenic railway
(yay! down with skinny women

just kidding
all the skinny women i know)

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
(boy this guy really hated the piggies)

Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I’ll bet Trotsky couldn’t hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

if i ever wrote a novel which i shortly will do, it would be kind of like this i think….
i really would love more than anything to write a novel
this is kathy talking right now BTW

chris bollen just wrote novel! wow!!!!
here is IS

I’m bound to say that New York’s a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I’m a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.
(sounds about right)

A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonized expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

(This guy is ridiculous right? you see maybe why i love this so much and it is really just a special thing?)

now we are going to walk around steve powers brooklyn murals and be quiet silent walking round

dont be bored!
i know after all those fun quotes you must be bored

maybe you guys can caption some photos

(is that what my blog is just captioning photos?)

i know it is lame but in my head i hit apple Z all the time
i even verbally in my head think “APPLE Z APPLE Z” a lot
not cool

the reason some of these are all wrapped is that they came back from MOCA ART IN THE STREETS just now

i told jeffrey he should do ART IN THE STREETS along the bowery and the new noo and the roll down gates and this is what he said

“its ok i know jeffrey loves and respects me he is just really too busy with his new job to connect with me anymore”

if you ever find there is a coke bag attached to your pant leg, buy a new pair of pants

“all the ladies in the house”

its fun that i stopped doing all of the class A narcotics and now only occasionally fuck with this shit, right?
or is that not funny

i warned you at the start of this post that i had no good jokes

where is our fucking light up sign someone is about to get punished seriously

hey!!!

oh man
when i see dash’s face i light up like a christmas tree and it takes a split second for me to remember that i dont get to see him anymore
literally i feel my heart leaping up when i see his face somewhere

my heart is open
and pulverized

sorry guys

avery is copping a new future in tennessee right now did i spell that right?

how can one word have so many repeated letters?

M I S S I S S I P P I

or something

those are both native america right?
native american likes maybe lots of repeated consonnants?

MANAHATTAN!

i dont actually WANT to talk about this art but here i am with no WODEHOUSE left

let’s all practice our “silently judging” skills

girls especially are excellent at this

this!!!!!
this is actually a color photo can you belive it
i am so drunk and just cant seem to belive it
or spell the world believe properly

man a hat ta

men att em

im just doing word jazz

in my michael jackson shoes
you already saw my outfit
whatever whatever

you guys have heard the released tapes of michael jackson where he does not have a baby voice right?
the whole baby voice was just affected
sorry to ruin your world

“Her face was shining like the seat of a bus-driver’s trousers”

seriously i have to read this on the plane
SERIOUSLY???

fuck

why did i not bring a book

i cannot tolerate airport book
i read the whole thing
i feel so much dumber now

hey look!
i went to LA

kenny scharf and ann magnuson curated a great show at Royal T about the LA and NYC connection happening in the 80s

ROYAL T CHECK IT OUT

this is rosson and kenny either awkward pre-hug or awkward after-hug
ha ha!
oops!
sorry guys

hoh-ho!

butts up?

definitely

steak in my face!

rug underfoot!
sue has best rug oh MAN

sue has an awesome Mariko Mori Wave UFO

sue tells good jokes

one of sue jokes it to put PUSSY FLOWERS next to pussy vase joke
yes!!!
remember this Aurel piece?

i do

bearded like the pard!

i like this little mandrake monster

lookin into other peoples homes

is fun

her place is awesome!

this health drink was a bit too much for me tho

so LA jeez LA
good things about LA include:

ben jones and christina

brunch

kale

weird signs

usually when visiting i just get all wrapped up in “quality of life”

nice place cheap
nice furniture

plants

champagne cocktails in middle of the day while surrounded by plants

but then the driving starts

and the art fairs start

this is me walking around PLATFORM a very uneven (new?) art fair in LA that had a few great things and then some really bad stinkers

stinky
oh wait i guess this is a bellybutton
also stinky

cordy ryman

jules “da ball’s in your” court

date farmers at Ace? or was it Acme? weirdyball

ok you artists
new idea
show tondo paintings but dont take them out of crate!
nate!!!

blorp

puma

poo poo ma

yay!
these Pettibon’s from 85 were aweasome

if i had the dough i woulda snatched up these bad boys

hmm

please no

for an art fair, there were lots of paintings for once tho

this was made outta what was it?

never seen that typed before!

this guy again
since when are art fairs like disneyland or something?

jeremy kost

michael billsburough

shit i spelled that wrong

some thingy

not by swoon

ooo EV undis!

ooOOOoo

i guess there were some sales!

this Ed Ruscha was awesome

javier’s booth!

ryan mcguiness

NOT by tauba

sold out Theaster Gates remember this guy from my Chicago visit last month?

Sayre Gomez

you will see more of him soon!

when i think of art fairs the mental image conjured looks almost exactly like this

doesnt this seem like “that girl in art school” if someone had given her support and money for ten years and told her GO GO GO

photo is better than real life hate to say it

this guy

he should be in a two person show with WENDY WHITE… TOTally

Isermann

that dude from Max Wigram whatshisname whatshisname

good thing i take photos of the names!

ok if you were going to have a champagne sponsor your art fair, would you really pick a company called RUIN ART

how come no graffiti on streets only fussy pieces in alleys?

visited skate legend steve olson’s studio

the first stop on my whirlwind studio adventure

there was lots of cool stuff

not all of which was get-at-able

i was getting like a MARK FLOOD and JACK PIERSON vibe does that look right to you guys?
yay!

shit KNOWN GALLERY was closed i wanted to see some rime paintings

scribbs

yay!

i’m working on a big ESPO article right now, anyone wanna weigh in on him?

at the RVCA store, felt like i was trespassing or something

oo!
peek through a fence and get a fun surprise

awesome
that RIME charactering is really great
hmmmm
look more here on REVOK BLOG

i told sue she had great “material abstraction” in her hallway then realized they were just renovating

ha ha!

look its rosson!
i had stumbled into visiting on her birthday actually!

i think she turned 27 🙂

oh oh just lonely girl in chateau marmont penthouse party

that is DEFINITELY a javier peres shaped blur!
yay!!!

he went out for fried chicken, i went to…?
some bar marmont ?

Sayre Gomez

Patrick Walsh

floor

kathy drunk

good morning!
its 8am and you have to go pick up your raison d’etre, Andreas Melas!

first stop Ben Jones studio
he has a show on Cartoon Network do you guys even know that?
its huge!!!!

not this show

this show

its pretty awesome he runs this show and has staff to boss around and has two weeks to make an episode and has a huge Jeffrey-sized screen and gets to make art cathedrals for children every month!

source material

ideas

yummy

awesoom

this makes me have feelings

oh that thing is cool lets look at it closer

weird!

mexican food
one thing you cannot get in Athens

hey remember that Jar Jar piece from Hanna Liden’s house?

this is Rosson’s bathroom

rosson is in prog on secret things i can’t show you (im sorry!) so just picture…. ACID BURN!

what else?

you are really going to kill me when i say i went to Eric Yahnker’s studio and AGAIN i can’t show you anything but maybe tiny detail that doesnt give it all away

fucking amazing detail of a work for “The Art of the Joke” show coming this spring

awesome

did you know Abraham Lincoln was jewish?

ha ha!

eric is one of the most promising young artists in LA hands down and i CANT WAIT to debut him here in new york this next September!

with Andreas jet lagging like crazy we crammed one more visit in

its sayre!
with one of his great innovations, the “freestanding painting”

remember these guys from THIS show?

sneaky thief

“image forthcoming”

boys

oh i really with i had that THIRTY AND DIRTY shirt back from Sean
sigh!

oh WOW finally i get to see OHWOW

you guys saw the big article i wrote on them for the last i-D right?

sold OUTTTTTT

except for the best one
get it while its still AVAILABLE!

jose parla

scribbs

he is a scribblin machine!

awesome
Al Moran said thats why he hung the green one there

pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty cool

WOPs

i like their floor
can i please have my floor painted with this jorge?

stefan simchowitz’ house

got lots of cool new stuff going on

Bruce High Quality

a high quality sterling ruby
but why is it behind plexi?

aw!

ben is stuck behind plexi too

did you ever see teh south park episode that has Matt Damon in it?
that is what i think of whenever i see a Josh Smith painting

i really hope at least one reader gets that joke!
here is a ara peterson and a andre ethier and im not quite quite sure what else

this is funny

its by an artist named CHEN
you will be hearing more about CHEN very soon

stefan talks too fast and i didnt hear what this was

chris johanson best in show!

sterling ruby

his son morris

andreas morris and pups

oh you have got to be kidding

now we are at PICI
jeff vespa’s new italian restaurant that is awesome

GO THERE!

art dinner art dinner

andreas brought men, stefan brought men, i brought ben and christina

but ben and christina went home early and somehow i ended up

at a strip club surrounded by men

picture some euro dude asking me which Dan Colen auction estimate was the most accurate while there are boobs in his and my face

LA you are silly and you make me feel silly too

NJ transit is not much of an improvement i admit

but New York City!
if you can even belive it there is STILL MORE BLOG to be had

got off plane and went to an artist dinner at this great gallery on East Broadway where Joe was in a show with his friend

awesome

joe is a fantastic artist

we all know this i know we already do

but still fun to look

this is a jason piece

here’s to your boy and my boy!

they have fun backyard
i want fun backyard!

i want everything

i want to grab everything and explode everything

i guess the psych term would be “mania”

manic panic

my pink hair is causing me to have manic panic

pretty kitty
did you guys see may’s new facebook photo?

i feel like this when i go on art trips
and i am about to go on two more!!!!!