Saturday, February 10, 2007

Everything We Needed to Know...

We learned this week:

1. Drawing on acetate sucks. Nothing sticks to it and it might even be an allergen. Mylar, on the other hand, is sweet. Polypropylene promises added excitement.

2. If a curator wants to visit, invite him immediately, even if you don't know what he's done before and even if you are really busy working on other stuff. He might want to put you in a show he's co-curating for the Armory Show, potentially granting you unprecedented exposure and allowing you to show next to artists you really admire, like Richard Aldrich and Laleh Khorramian. If you keep him waiting, he'll forget about you and move on, and you'll be profoundly dismayed for several days.

3. Sometimes rationalization works: "Yeah, but actually it's better not to be in that show, you might disappear in the chaos," or "Remember there's next year." Sometimes it doesn't.

4. Terrence Koh's new assistant seems to be Kadar Brock. Kadar Brock was formerly the director of Rare Gallery, has showed paintings at Buia Gallery, and gotten the short end of Charlie Finch's stick and ink from Roberta Smith. Do you know him? Interesting how many lives one can have in the art world.

5. David Zwirner now represents R. Crumb. Maybe Crumb is like our Rousseau? Except more like a cultural critic? We hope he'll make a market for Los Bros Hernandez, too.

Comments:
wow Charlie Finch is tough, that hurt.
 
tough but fair.
 
you can use Flashe to paint on acetate- it sticks pretty well
 
Whoa. I had no idea about R. Crumb and Zwirner...very interesting..thanks!
 
hughes called crumb our "peter breughel", which is a long stretch.....
Imagining Kadar assist Terrence is fascinating
 
How about Daumier? Is Crumb our Daumier? But Tim Davis said Nicole Eisenman is our Daumier; guess they'll have to fight it out.

-Triple Diesel (sorry, now we can't figure out this google/blogger shit and log in to our own comments box)
 
frosted mylar is heaven
 
and Penny Candy's pretty great too.
 
duuuh...Penny century. Sorry its the day. 40 minutes and Im going home to my chocolate.
 
Mark Creegan, thanks for the tip. We'll try it out. Utrecht doesn't carry flashe, by the way.
 
Penny Century is great, seems like a great person to have in the family.

Re: Love and Rockets: we took turns falling in love with each of the characters, forming every possible love triangle and quadrilateral.
 
kadrad, thanks for tuning in. Someone said something similar about Hilton Kramer in a recent Time Out NY feature on critics. Is Charlie Finch the next Hilton Kramer? Also, we wonder what you made of Roberta Smith's review. Anyway, way to roll with the punches.
 
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