Marietta Anton had some nude photos taken of her 25 years ago by her then boyfriend Sigmar Polke. Now living in Portugal, Metro UK reports that her foster son came across what he thought was a secret porn stash, and did what 15 year-old boys naturally do with such a treasure (not realizing who the model was).
Despite efforts to clean the spluge, the now damaged photos, valued at nearly 70,000 USD only fetched 15k at auction.
December 16, 2006
Life Imitates Oedipus
December 7, 2006
Art Basel Los Angeles?
Stephen Cohen may be getting some competition for his intimate and manageable art fairs, Photo LA and Art LA. ArtInfo reports that Sam Keller, director of Art Basel Miami is renewing "year to year" rather than establishing a long-term contract in Miami. And Alexis Hubshman of Scope passed along rumors of an Art Basel move to Los Angeles.
December 4, 2006
Wood Winds From Chicago to L.A.
The Los Angeles Times reports today that the Getty has picked a new president. James N. Wood, past president of the Art Institute of Chicago will start in February.
What can one say but, "Good luck and stay out of trouble!"
More from the Getty here.
December 1, 2006
Watching You Watching Me
Weekly automated messages from my site meter have shown an up tick in activity. Here's a brief sampling on how folks found their way here:
At about 7:30 this morning someone in Rome, Italy (using a Mac with Firefox 2.0) found their way to the Charles Saatchi page by typing his name into Italian Google's search box. My blog turned up on page 8.
Someone from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland read about Tim Hawkinson's Sweater project at Gallery 825. They also read my Urasawa review and then left though a link to Flicker photos of Urasawa's menu items.
Yesterday someone working for Alberto Gonzales at the U.S. Department of Justice did a Google search for Meeson Pae Yang a local multi-media artist. It was a fairly through search, as Michele Jaquis' comments on my Tim Hawkinson posting lists Meeson as a fellow collaborator on the Sweater piece fell on the second page of Mr. DOJ's Google Search.
An interesting side note: The DOJ worker has a much better computer set up than the folks at NIST.
There seems to be a lot of surfing with your tax dollars, as someone at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin used a U.S. Army internet connection to do a Google search of "Leap Into the Void," the title of this here blog. They read my posting on Pete Ashdown for Senate, before presumably moving on to something more relevant.
Perhaps a student on campus told the Army recruiter to take a flying leap, and the recruiter was trying to figure out a way to do just that.
More appropriately, a web surfer (using Windows XP) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art found my cease and desist posting from Dia Art Foundation through a link posted at News Grist.
About an hour earlier, a suspiciously similar search took place (also in New York). My guess is that someone did a search of walter de maria at dia, clicked on my article, out-clicked though News Grist. then finished reading when they got to their cubicle at the Met.
Here's a few more (if you're not bored with my reverse voyeurism):
A link from Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes to my posting of Jason Rhoades demise. Read by a women with red hair and a collection of old postcards.
A young man in Shanghai with no personal items in his workspace typed, "never trace what you can cut out and paste down" and found "22 Panels That Always Work."
A preoperative transgender with a photograph of Joseph Ratzinger as a Hitler Youth living in McDonough, Georgia searched for Cy Twombly paintings and found one hidden here.
And finally, a dark-haired person of an unspecified gender searched for Enrique Castrejon, who transformed like a set of coat hangers into a flock of birds.
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