INSIDE THE BOX

ifnotnowthenwhen:

Studio Worldwide

theworkingcup:

Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park 116 (1979)

rifles:

Naoya Hatakeyama: Maquettes/Light #0426, 1994 

paddyjohnson:

I’ve been trying to keep the Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction updates from completely taking over the blog, but benefits are such an enormous undertaking that at some point you just give up and hope people will find them as fascinating as you do. I’m not exactly an unbiased source, but with the auction items we release today, I can’t imagine there being any question over whether you should attend. As greg.org tweeted yesterday evening, “A live staging of Richard Prince’s deposition is only in the like 80th pctile of crazy in @artfagcity’s benefit auction”. That’s an exaggeration of course — I’d give that re-enactment a far more generous crazy ranking — but the point is well made. You simply won’t find more unique experiences and objects anywhere else.

With that in mind, I direct readers to our Collectrium auction page (also available via download), where the full list lives in all its glory. A few highlights:

• Relationship advice from Genesis P-Orridge
• Tea with John Giorno (Warhol Diaries), Debbie Harry (yes, that one), artist Scott Kilgour and Johnny Reinhold in William S. Borrough’s old home.
• Stephen Petronio Company invites you behind the scenes (Buy it now option available)
• Hennessy Youngman outgoing voicemail (Buy it now option available)
• A topless girl with a towel around her head and an iron captured by Richard Kern
• 20 Rob Pruitt-branded ice bags filled with melted ice, entitled “The Party’s Over”.

I doubt I’ll be ruining any surprises when I say that this last lot will be placed at the end of our live auction, nor that our rebranding to “The Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Awards* Not affiliated with Rob Pruitt, now affiliated with Rob Pruitt” is forthcoming. At Art Fag City we believe in complete transparency.

We also believe in efficiency. Those who wish to avoid lines this Thursday should fill out our bidder form in advance here. Those who can’t attend but wish to place an absentee bid can download our form here. Those who wish to see ANDREW ANDREW DJ will just have to attend. The pair are our latest edition to the event and I couldn’t be happier. They tell me they will be playing bid-friendly music throughout their set (6:30 and 7:30.)

In equally good news, I’m pleased to announce that artist William Powhida will be presiding over the award ceremony this Thursday. I don’t know what light he will chose to shine on the award categories and nominees, but I hope he will be able to shed some light on the relationship between baldness and art criticism. Also, I believe there’s a man and his horse nomination that needs some explanation.

Read more. 

artsatlas:

Flower 2007

David Adey

contextblog:

Ryan McGinness Presents: Women – The Blacklight Paintings

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andreabarja:

Linda Benglis

alecshao:

Romeo and Juliet poster by Beetroot Design Group: Every “Romeo” and “Juliet” throughout the entire text of the play is connected to form a star-shaped web of 55,440 red lines

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