POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE CHINA CYBER ATTACKS TARGETING THE NEW YORK TIMES GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

STUDIO 54

200 people gathered at Palm Beach’s Modern Auctions yesterday to bid on the treasures of the legendary New York nightclub, Studio 54. Thousands of items were up for bid which had previously belonged to Bill Hamilton, the companion of the 1970s nightclub owner Steve Rubell. Other photographs taken at Studio 54 included celebrities such as Cher, Sylvester Stallone, Brooke Shields, and Calvin Klein. Tommy Morrison, a 31-year-old Palm Beach collector, spent $7,000 in only the first hour on photographs. A famous photo of Rubell, Warhol, Shields and Klein was one of the many photos Morrison took home for $1,800. Photographs of socialites and celebrities, letters, and artwork were many of the items auctioned off on Saturday by auctioneer, Rico Bacca. Popular items included a photo of bartender Sal DeFalco with Graces Jones, which went for $1500, a collection of six record albums from the DJ booth in Studio 54 for $450, and an invitation to Studio 54’s New Year’s Eve party from 1981 for $1,500. Photographs of celebrities at Studio 54 in the late 1970s were the biggest hit at the event, with many photographic collectors in attendance. A Polaroid of Rubell and Grace Jones taken by Andy Warhol brought in the most money at the auction, being sold at $10,000.

Haute Living 

Jan 21 2013

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

ART CRITIC 101

Keith Haring art was interesting in the 1980's. It's still interesting in 2013.
Francesco Clemente art was not interesting in the 1980's. It's still not interesting today....

RÉVÉLATEUR....

Bien que englobant une définition parfois arbitraire de «Graffiti artists» le fait que Keith Haring et Jean Michel Basquiat soient aujourd'hui les plus célèbres et les mieux cotés de ces derniers sur le marché de l'art n'est pas anodin. Tout deux furent amis de Madonna dans le New York du début des années 1980, puis tous deux furent étroitement associés à Warhol par la suite.  Ainsi fonctionne aujourd'hui en partie la dite valeur historique d'un artiste et son importance dans l'histoire de l'art...

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT BEING BEAUTIFUL AND VICE VERSA

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MONEY

Money to buy things is how the poor think. Money to buy time is how the rich think.  

HIGHLY WARHOLIAN

A Brazilian woman has been accused of trying to kill her husband by putting poison in her vagina and asking him to have oral sex with her. The intended victim — identified only as a 43-year-old man from Sao de Jose Rio Preto – knew something was going on when he noticed an unfamiliar odor coming from his wife’s freshly poisoned nether region. But here’s the thing about vaginas, as this woman soon learned: They are very porous. Realizing that his wife was probably absorbing a majority of the poison she had intended tokill him with, he brought her to the hospital and saved her life. This guy! He is totally down to perform oral sex 24/7 and will generously rush you to the emergency room after you try to kill him. And they say chivalry is dead! But he is nobody’s fool: Sources reveal the man intends to sue his wife for attempted murder.

-www.salon

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

From a tale of two cities to a tale of two continents
Since 2011, 45% of the proceeds from worldwide auctions of contemporary art have been achieved in Asia. Of course, a large proportion of these sales are made in Beijing and Hong Kong (76%), but other cities such as Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei are now producing higher sales volumes than traditional marketplaces such as Paris, Berlin, Milan and Geneva. Today, more contemporary art is sold in Taipei than in 49 of the USA's 50 states put together (excluding only New York State). The emergence of Asia is not only important in that it is a growth driver for the global art market, but it also raises some interesting questions about a new economic multipolarity. Ten years ago, 80% of the art market was dominated by London and New York, with a few other cities being left to pick up the crumbs. But since 2011 the spread of the contemporary art market has grown exponentially. From 2011 to the present day, over a million dollars' worth of contemporary art has gone under the hammer each year in 40 cities. These not only include the traditional centres of New York, London, Paris, Beijing and Hong Kong but also Seoul, Berlin, Singapore, Brussels, Jakarta, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Taipei, Tokyo and Hangzhou, to name but a few. Half of the top 40 marketplaces in the world are now in Asia.

-Art Price

 Jan 29 2013

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»

New naked photo of Madonna discovered.

-Next!

«A BELEZA É UM SINAL DE INTELIGÊNCIA»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE MAURIZIO CATTELAN WILL SCULPT GAGOSIAN' KOONS AND HIRST AS GASPARD, MELCHIOR AND BALTHAZAR

LE MARCHÉ DE L'ART ACTUEL EXPLIQUÉ

-La valeur intrinsèque d'un artiste ou d'une oeuvre ne peux plus être le premier critère pour déterminer sa valeur aux enchères parce que de toutes façons après quelques générations les oeuvres phares se retrouvent dans les musées.

-La convergence de la culture populaire avec le monde de l'art oblige ce dernier à participer du même rétrécissement de la connaissance pour se rendre attrayant  à l'échelle mondiale: Il y a Kim, Angelina Brad et Jen. Quatres ou cinq noms tout au plus: c'est le maximum de noms que les gens peuvent et veulent retenir On a donc aujourd'hui au domaine de l'art blue chip,Takashi, Damien, Jeff, Pablo et Andy. Répété en boucle par journalistes paresseux.

-Les milliardaires du vingt et unième siècle veulent se prendrent pour des Laurent de Médicis...mais sans avoir à lire de la philo ou de la littérature trop «moody». Dans cette optique, un tableau de 100 millions fait parfaitement l'affaire.

«MASS ART IS HIGH ART»

«DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WRITE ABOUT YOU. JUST MEASURE IT IN INCHES»

Kim Kardashian Google search results:  (Jan 28 2013) : 284 000 000

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

«He didn't influenced Pop Culture. He invented it»

-Betsey Johnson

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF

«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA

«L'art abstrait est le fruit sec d'un raisonnement juste. Comme la préposition deux et deux font quatre. Juste aussi, mais insuffisante quand il s'agit de résoudre les problèmes de façon non cartésienne. Il est apparenté au jeu des mots croisés qui lui aussi, se contente de poser des problèmes arbitraires et de s'amuser à résoudre ces problèmes. Ce fruit sec ne suffit pas à notre faim d'absolu»

-Max Ernst
 1951

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RELIGION

Tout débat sur le rôle de la religion qui ne prend pas en compte le fait qu'être juif n'est pas religieux ou ethnique mais bien religieux ET ethnique est forcément voué à être stérile.

«I HAVE SOCIAL DISEASE. I HAVE TO GO OUT EVERY NIGHT»

THE SMARTEST THING EVER SAID ABOUT SEX

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

-Oscar Wilde

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LUXURY

The greatest luxury in life is to be a total hunk or bimbo and never having to say a world in order to seduce men. I mean men are so dumb. It can only be great fun.

العضلات هي العظمى

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Finally, Skate’s includes some info on the repeat sales that brought the biggest financial gains and losses for their former owners in 2012. One notable loss was for Marc Chagall’s La Musique that sold for $2.1 million in 2012, 25% less than it was purchased for one year earlier, proof if any more was needed that while buying art with the intention of making money is difficult enough, buying art and then selling it almost immediately is a disaster waiting to happen.

-Forbes
  January 8 2013

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL»

BURKA...

Karl Lagerfeld on not removing his sunglasses for interviews:

«They’re my burka ... I had an interview once with some German journalist — some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists — maybe a week after — and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, “It’s impolite; remove your glasses.” I said, “Do I ask you to remove your bra?”

«THERE SHOULD BE A COURSE ON FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

«Méfiez-vous de ceux qui tournent le dos à l'amour, à l'ambition, à la société. Tôt ou tard ils se vengeront d'y avoir renoncé»

-Cioran.

ANDY WARHOL ON WRESTLING: «IT'S ENTERTAINMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC»

MEMO TO INTERVIEW MAGAZINE: ENOUGH WITH THE BLACK & WHITE COVERS!

Gosh..I miss Richard Bernstein.

MADONNA ET WARHOL

«À première vue Madonna collait parfaitement à l'univers underground, sexuellement ambigu, ostensiblement choquant de Warhol. Mais Warhol qui avait pourtant lui-même débuté modestement en Pennsylvanie, ne l'accepta jamais dans sa cour. Elle était à part, pas simplement parce qu'elle venait 

d'un petit bled ou qu'elle aurait eu moins de talent que les autres, mais parce qu'elle s'était construit 

des limites derrière lesquelles elle se retranchait pour survivre. À moins peut-être qu'il ait senti qu'elle

avait plus de talent que la plupart de ses hôtes»

-Madonna

 Barbara Victor

 Éditions Flammarion p.235

KEITH HARING FOR REEBOK

LEO CASTELLI

Castelli didn't open his own gallery — actually, a converted bedroom in his Upper East Side apartment — until 1957, and it was another year before he made his biggest splash, the first solo exhibition of a promising Southerner not yet 30: Jasper Johns. Castelli had seen his work in a group show at New York's pioneering Jewish Museum, but the "discovery" came only when Castelli was taking a studio tour of another young Southerner who'd also shown in the museum's exhibition: Rauschenberg. The two artists (neither Jewish) were neighbors and shared a fridge. When Castelli wanted ice in his drink, there was Johns, surrounded by his painted flags and targets and alphabets. Castelli signed them both.

L.A Times
May 23 2010

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE TREND OF BILLIONAIRES «VANITY MUSEUM» GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

PICASSO: FIGURES AU BORD DE LA MER

LIKE PICASSO

«With Warhol it's going to be like Picasso» predicts Jeffrey Deitch: «There's so much you can still do with Warhol, so many aspects-as a painter and as a performance artist».

 -Art News
  Much More than 15 minutes
  The Rise and Rise of Andy Warhol
   January 2002 p.108

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Last year saw a list of big-name artists demolish the traditional rules of artist representation by holding shows at rival galleries: Peter Doig at Michael Werner (under the nose of his long-time dealer Victoria Miro), Gagosian artist Jeff Koons at David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth’s Thomas Houseago at Gagosian. This trend is likely to continue, as more artists turn to agents to look after their business interests.


-The Art newspaper

«LA BEAUTÉ EST UN SIGNE D'INTELLIGENCE»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE NAKED PORN STARS WILL REPLACE RING GIRLS AT BOXING EVENTS

À LA WARHOL

"Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts?"

-Carrie
Sex& The City

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FRIENDSHIP

A real friend is not someone who invite you to dinner. It's someone who ask you: how can I help you getting what you want the most?

«ANDY THOUGHT ABOUT JEWS A LOT» -BOB COLACELLO

«Le propriétaire de la Morgan Gallery à Boston s'appelle Allan Rottenberg. Juste à répéter son nom je flippe. Mon vocabulaire anglais compte maintenant sept mots au total: «How are you», «thank you» et Allan Rottenberg». À l'époque je ne suis pas encore au courant qu'il s'agit d'un nom de famille juif, mais je réaliserai très vite qu'aux States, travailler avec un juif est un gros atout de plus. C'est d'ailleurs Allan Rottenberg qui s'est chargé de ma première exposition aux États-Unis.»


 -Corno  Cornographie p.14

HOMMAGE À DUANE HANSON

LIVING NOW

Don't read. Just buy low and sell high. Nobody fucking care about anything else anyway.

BEFORE & AFTER FOR THE 21st CENTURY

Before: «Art is what you can get away with» -Andy Warhol

After: Art is what Damien Hirst can get away with.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»

New fitness DVD for Madonna.

-Next!

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FAME

As t-on vraiment mesuré à quel point Internet rend aujourd'hui dérisoire la notion de célébrité posthume?

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

FASHION TIP FOR THE 21st CENTURY

«Elegance is refusal»

-Coco Chanel

«OHHHH ELIZABETH TAYLOR OHHHH SHE'S SO GLAMOROUS»

But Elizabeth Taylor's maternal quality is central to her heterosexual power. Elizabeth Taylor could control men. She liked men. And men liked her. There was a chemistry between her and men, coming from her own maternal instincts. I've been writing about this for years, and it was partly inspired by watching Taylor operate on-screen and off. The happy and successful heterosexual woman feels tender and maternal toward men -- but this has been completely lost in our feminist era. Now women tell men, you have to be my companion and be just like a woman; be my best friend, and listen to me chatter. In other words, women don't really like men anymore -- they want men to be like women. But Elizabeth Taylor liked men, and men loved to be around her because they sensed that.

-Camille Paglia

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RELIGIOUS WAR

Islam vs Judaism: People of one book vs people of many books.

HIGHLY WARHOLIAN

“Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters”

Headline on a July 3 Reuters article about Walter Dix beating Tyson Gay in the 200 meters at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League track meet. (Reuters.com, July 3 2010)

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

Oligarchs and other super-rich investors are 'bulk buying' new art and destroying the middle market for artists, a panel of experts claimed yesterday. And they said a new 'Premier League' of art galleries and buyers fuelled by new wealth money was emerging, leaving smaller galleries and artists fighting for crumbs. Multi-billionaires such as Mexican magnate Carlos Slim and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich have so much money that they need to exercise little judgement when buying art.Instead they can purchase the work of any promising young artists for high prices and gamble on one or two of them becoming a success. But the 'spray and pray' approach to buying art among the super-rich has out-priced traditional middle-market art buyers like doctors and lawyers. The knock-on effect is being felt by smaller galleries and the artists they represent, where interest from traditional middle income investors has waned. The panel discussing changes in the art world at the Institute of Contemporary Art on The Mall in Central London on Friday also said some of the top gallery owners were guilty of deliberately inflating the art market around a few blue chip artists, while neglecting to "nurture" the rest.

-The Mirror
  january 20 2013

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia would result in people turning gay, religious leaders in that country have warned. According to a “scientific” report released by Muslim scholars at the Majlis al-lfta' al-A'ala religious council, the nation's top religious authority, lifting the ban on female drivers would result in “no more virgins” and Saudis would increasingly turn to homosexuality and pornography.According to the UK's Daily Mail, the study was delivered to members of the Shura Council, Saudi Arabia's legislative body, last year.Women on the road would “provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce,” the report's authors wrote. Virginity would be a thing of the past within ten years.As evidence, the report included the observations of Professor Subhi.“All the women were looking at me,” Subhi wrote of his experience sitting in a coffee shop in an Arab state where women are allowed to drive. “One made a gesture that made it clear she was available. … This is what happens when women are allowed to drive.”

-On Top magazine
 October 2012

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Elton John father for the second time.

-Next!

AMERICA GOT TALENT!

A nation governed by reason should include in its constitution a provision against the supervision of beauty contests by women. Women dominate the executive direction and management of the Miss America contest, and they have of course, ruined it. When it began it was fairly simple: good-looking girls in bathing suit paraded before judges until one of them was declared winner. Today, partially in order to drag the proceedings out sufficiently long to justify a $60 000 TV fee and to turn the house over three times, the girls are judged in three categories; in bathing suits, in evening gowns, and for something called talent. The bondaries of this latter category can be stretched to accomodate the ability to break four balloons the width of the stage away with seven arrows. Contestants have been known to sing, dance, «recite» trampoline-tumble and even crochet.

-The Miss America Joke
Playboy magazine
September 1959

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

PETER BLAKE

“It’s a cross I bear,” he said of the fact that his art is not taken as seriously as that of some contemporaries. “Perhaps it’s surprising that at my kind of age and with my infirmities I’m still cheerful,” he said at the Waddington Custot Galleries, where his latest show, “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” is on view. Surrounding him are works ranging from some of his earliest watercolors, executed in 1948 when he was 16, to The Family, a sculpture he completed just a few days ago. Stroking his wispy silver beard repeatedly and using a cane to walk around a central London gallery, the man dubbed the “godfather of pop art” still struggles to come to terms with his place in the world of contemporary culture. Blake concedes that he is often left having to defend his work in a world in which “serious” art is cherished above all. What is striking is how lively they are — plastic figures of Snow White and 30 dwarfs crowd outside a model of a Swiss chalet in one humorous work, and the 6-foot-long A Parade for Saul Steinberg is a model bursting with color and references to popular culture. “Painters all have a different reason to paint. It could be politics; it could be angst; it could be anger. My reason to paint is to make magic and to make cheerful things.”

LONDON — Pop music loves him. The art establishment shuns him.

At the age of 80, British artist Peter Blake is revered for his celebrated Sgt. Pepper Beatles album cover yet at the same time dismissed as too “cheerful” to be one of the greats.

-The Columbus Dispatch
 january 6 2013

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: STEREOTYPES

Of course the fact that so many gay men get along really well with women and lesbians with straight men doesn't mean anything.....Right?

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: THE ART MARKET NOW

Big money is not killing the art market. Big money is killing art history.

“I LOVE LOS ANGELES. I LOVE HOLLYWOOD. THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL. EVERYBODY'S PLASTIC"

«L.A is kind of like heroin, I guess. It seems like it would be a beautiful, quiet peaceful feeling and then it kills you»

-Cher
 Interview magazine
 May 1982 p.34

ARNOLD AND ANDY WARHOL

«I became very good friend with Andy Warhol and used to hang out at the (Factory) Studio
in the 70's because he was a big believer in bodybuilding and (like other hip celebrities) helped
get bodybuilding out of the dungeon to make it a hip activity to do»

-Arnold Schwarzenneger

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS LANCE ARMSTRONG CONFESSION GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TALENT

If you don't have any talent in sciences or arts and literature just constantly talk about left or right in politics. 99% of people won't see you are just saying «banalités and évidences» and they will think of you as a smart person.

«ATHLETES REALLY DO HAVE THE FAT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND THEY LOOK YOUNG IN THE RIGHT PLACE»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE LADY GAGA WILL BE DRESSED AS A LIVING JOHN CHAMBERLAIN SCULPTURE AT THE DETROIT AUTO SHOW

THE «SLUTTY GOOD CATHOLIC GIRL» SYNDROME

«Brigid is a conceptual thinker from a good family. Though she moved to the wrong side of the tracks he good breeding still shows»

-Andy Warhol

I like the idea that Lady Gaga went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart school in New York with Paris & Nicky Hilton. The school Warhol star Brigid Berlin also attended. Paris Hilton need not to worry. Even with a sex tape her good breeding still shows.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Rihanna at London Fashion Week.

-Next!

DOLLY PARTON INSPIRATION

I had to think about what drag to go in to Halston's party later on, so I sent Robyn out for a wig and he came back with the perfect one-a grey Dolly Parton, and I put it on and I wore the dress I'd once designed for a Rizzoli art fashion show that was parts of six different designer's dresses all sewn together. Went over to Halston's.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
 July 17 1978

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

La voix de Lou Rawls...quel plaisir apaisant.

THE STUPIDITY OF «NEVER SAY NEVER»

if you think something is impossible and will never happen to you don't be afraid to say it. It will indeed never happen to you. Nobody will ever see there might be someone with something to say behind this blog. Nobody. Never. And that's fine.

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

«ANDY THOUGHT ABOUT JEWS A LOT» - BOB COLACELLO

“I’m not crazy about seeing myself described as an American-Jewish writer,” Roth tells the camera in his “Masters” portrait, which will air on March 29, shortly after his 80th birthday. “I don’t write in Jewish. I write in American.” “I think I missed the Jew boat by one generation,” Brooks said when asked if he considered himself a “Jewish entertainer.” “When I worked in the Borscht Belt I spoke in English; a generation before me they spoke in Yiddish.” 

These two Jewish geniuses get asked about Jewishness a lot. Is it their Jewishness that makes them so special or their specialness that makes Jewishness matter?

“They keep asking me,” Brooks continued, “ ‘What is Jewish comedy? How does it differ from normal comedy?’ I say, ‘You got it wrong. It’s not really Jewish comedy — there are traces of it, but it is really New York comedy, urban comedy, street-corner comedy. It’s not Jewish comedy — that’s from Vilna, that’s Poland.”

I asked Roth why the Jewish label bothered him. “It doesn’t bother me,” he said.  “People can call me anything they want.” Well, then, what role has it played? 

“I’m an American writer. Think of Faulkner, think of Bellow — they’re regionalists. They write about the place that they come from. So was Joyce, a regionalist. I wrote about the region I came from and that particular locale was full of Jews — me, my family and all my friends. So I wrote about them. The ‘Jewishness’ wasn’t so much Jewishness, as these are the people I knew, and this is the culture I knew. In my adult life, I have had many friends from many different backgrounds, but by and large, I have followed the lives of Jewish men because I know the most about them — I think.” 

-Jewish Journal

 January 15 2012

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LUXURY

Quel luxe du passé n'apparaîtra pas dérisoire aux yeux des humains immortels du 23 ième siècle?

THE WARHOL ATTITUDE: SO BAD IT'S GOOD

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Britney Spears returns her $90 000 engagement ring.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GOOD EDUCATION

They always say young people should listen to old people. I never understood it. I mean young people are better -looking. Old people should listen to young people.

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMEN MAG: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION LINES WHEN SAYING «Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii» TO YOUR FRENEMY!

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

«La poésie est mémoire. Mémoire de l'intensité perdue»

-Yves Bonnefoy

«I LOVE ALL MUSIC. CLASSICAL, COUNTRY, OPERA, EVERYTHING»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: AGE

You should always be on the dance floor every single night at 22 then leave it for good at 32. Thanks God I understood both at the right time...

DEFINITION OF AN ARTIST

An artist is someone who enjoy either very intellectual content or absolute TV trash, and nothing betwen the two...

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. »

-Mae West

CRITIQUE D'ART

Impossible de comprendre les excès du marché de l'art actuel si on ne comprend pas comment
les dérives de la critique d'art des 40 dernières années lui ont ouvert toute grande la porte. En sombrant dans le jargon et la non pertinence, la critique d'art s'est sabordée elle-même. Autre chose devait inévitablement alors prendre sa place. Pour le pire hélas. Aujourd'hui faire la critique d'une oeuvre, c'est tout simplement en mentionner le prix dans Forbes magazine ou dans le Financial Times.

«IF EVERYBODY IS NOT A BEAUTY THEN NOBODY IS»

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Michael Jackson glove sold for $200 000.

-Next!

THE REAL QUESTION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE ART MARKET AT THE TOP

Qatar is now buying many top and most expensive artists also bought by important jewish art collectors. Qatar is financing groups in complete opposition to the interests of Israel.Watch closely in the future. It won't be boring in the art market....

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE NEW SKELETON STRUCTURE IN MILKY WAY GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

THE MOST UN-AMERICAN AMERICAN

«People have come up to me and said, «You must be the most american artist, and I've read others who think I'm «un-american».

-Andy Warhol
 America p.214

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FAME

Instant fame is impossible without being young.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”

-Oscar Wilde

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

NEW YORK (ÉTATS-UNIS) [17.12.12] – Damien Hirst ne sera désormais plus représenté par Larry Gagosian. La collaboration entre l’artiste et le galeriste durait depuis 17 ans.

L’artiste britannique semble avoir décidé de mettre fin à la fructueuse collaboration qu’il entretient depuis 17 ans avec la galerie Larry Gagosian. Depuis 1995, les œuvres de Damien Hirst ont été exposées dans chacune des 12 galeries qui constituent l’empire de Larry Gagosian, à l’exception de la nouvelle antenne du Bourget.

Science Ltd, la société d’Hirst a précisé qu’il s’agissait d’une décision à l’amiable, ajoutant que l’artiste continuerait en revanche à collaborer avec la White Cube Gallery de Londres, avec laquelle il travaille depuis presque aussi longtemps que la galerie Gagosian. On se souvient comment, en 2008, Damien Hirst avait organisé lui-même, sans passer par un intermédiaire, la vente de ses propres œuvres chez Sotheby’s.

Une question se pose maintenant : vers qui l’artiste va-il se tourner pour le représenter, notamment à New York où ses œuvres sont très recherchées ?

Il y a seulement quelques jours, c’est un autre artiste emblématique de Gagosian, Jeff Koons, qui annonçait une collaboration prochaine avec la galerie Zwirner. La galerie Gagosian a néanmoins précisé qu’elle représentait toujours Koons.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

SHOW BUSINESS

«Tab Hunter should star in the movie of my life. People would be much happier imagining that I was as handsome as that. I mean, the real Bonnie and Clyde sure didn't look like Faye and Warren.Who wants the truth? That's what show business if for, to prove that it's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are».

-Andy Warhol.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINES WILL TELL 60+ WOMEN: HAVE YOUR HEAD CUT GET A NEW 19 YEAR OLD ONE AND GET A MAN!

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SOCIAL CLASS EXPLAINED

Poor people fuck old people and buy cheap new things. Rich people fuck young people and buy expensive old things...

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE ART BUBBLE GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

»GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Buying and selling contemporary art at the highest level currently has a lot more to do with capitalism than it does cultural value. Unless you understand that, you aren’t actually talking about the art market at all.

The big dealers — Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace, etc. — and the deep-pocketed collecting families like the Mugrabis and the Nahmads — have almost complete control over the markets of contemporary art's most expensive artists. Furthermore, the cultural cachet of having done business at one of the world’s most famous galleries is part of what you pay for when you buy a work by one of those galleries’ artists. That value will likely drop in the long run — but it’s currently a market force continuing to push prices upward. High prices for contemporary artists are entirely dependent on the ability of the best dealers to continue to convince their wealthy clients that higher prices are worth paying, and to dish out the cash themselves at times to keep everything going when demand is lean. As long as they can continue to do that, the state of the market is unlikely to change.

-Artinfo

Jan 7 2013

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: HOUSEWORK

Once you started, doing housework is the best, most efficient and cheapest way to get rid of existential crisis...

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

FUREUR – Une statue d’Hitler en plein cœur du ghetto de Varsovie

Une statue de cire représentant Adolf Hitler, en plein cœur du ghetto de Varsovie. L'initiative est osée et ne manque évidemment pas de susciter la controverse, rapporte le quotidien britannique The Guardian.

L'œuvre de l'artiste contemporain italien Maurizio Cattelan, intitulée Him, représente le dictateur agenouillé. Posée dans une cour, elle n'est visible par le public que de dos, par un trou dans une porte en bois. Si la statue a attiré de nombreux visiteurs depuis son installation, en novembre dernier, elle a aussi déclenché l'hostilité de certaines organisations juives, rapporte le Guardian. Le Centre Simon-Wiesenthal a ainsi évoqué "une provocation insensée qui insulte la mémoire des victimes juives des nazis".

Le Guardian explique que, selon les organisateurs de l'exposition, l'œuvre a pour but de faire réfléchir le public sur la nature du mal. Fabio Cavallucci, directeur du centre d'art contemporain à l'origine de la manifestation, estime ainsi qu'"il n'y a aucune intention de la part de l'artiste ou du centre d'insulter la mémoire des juifs. C'est une œuvre qui essaie d'évoquer le mal qui s'insinue partout".

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SOCIAL CLASS

Only middle class people divorce because he cheated on her....

THE WARHOL ATTITUDE: SO BAD IT'S GOOD

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

Works by Pop Art pioneer Andy Warhol rose to the top of auction sales in 2012. Warhol's art fetched a total of $380.3 million, beating such artists as Picasso, Richter and Zhang. According to Bloomberg, the second place in the list complied by Artnet belongs to Spaniard Pablo Picasso. His art earned $334.7 million last year as opposed to $366 million in 2011. In 2012 Picasso also lost his title of the world's most expensive artist at auction, when The Scream by Edvard Munch set the new record of $119.9 million last May.Eighty year old German painter, Gerhard Richter, took third place, becoming the top selling living artist. Richter's art fetched $298.9 million in 2012 climbing up from sixth in 2011. A 1994 abstract painting owned by Eric Clapton sold at Sotheby's last October for $42 million, helping Richter secure his place among the top three.Works from the Chinese ink painter Zhang Daqian, who died in 1983, faced a major decline in sales compared to 2011, when his artwork earned $782.4 million. In 2012 his work sold for a total of $241.6 million due to “economic and political uncertainty,” art dealers are quoted by Bloomberg as saying.

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West buy a 11 million dollars home.

-Next

«BEAUTY DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH SEX»

THE SIXTIES

«You never had to buy anything in the sixties. You could get almost anything for free: everything was
«Promotion»

-Popism
The Warhol Sixties
Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett p.106

WHAT THE EARLY 21st CENTURY IS REALLY ALL ABOUT...

The age of desperate papy boomers trying to put their hands on anybody twenty or thirty years younger. A sense of dignity, self respect and giving back to the word by intellectual achievement: what the fuck is that?...

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Gérard Depardieu est donc aussi le nom qu’on peut donner à la tragédie de l'être humain, incapable d'échapper à son enveloppe charnelle. Et qui, malgré tous ses subterfuges, malgré le divertissement de soi et des autres, sait qu'il  reste mortel.   
Et comme presque tous ceux qui ont cette lucidité-là, il se déteste de se savoir mortel. Et il accélère ce qu’il redoute, pour ne pas avoir à l’attendre.
C'est cela qu’il faut le plus apprendre de Gérard Depardieu. Et c’est de cela qu’il faut le plus se méfier: que la fascination d'un peuple pour un homme, qui le représente si bien, ne le pousse pas à s'autodétruire.

-Jacques Attali

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS GERARD DEPARDIEU GETTING A RUSSIAN PASSPORT GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

PHOTO BY DAVD LACHAPELLE

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YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF