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'Chicken Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham & Me' On Sale Feb. 12
Authorized tribute compilation contains 101 personal stories from world leaders, celebrities, religious leaders and those who know him best
Feb 11, 2013, 12:03 ET
COS COB, Conn., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in its 20-year history, Chicken Soup for the Soul is releasing a one-of-a-kind tribute book composed of stories and recollections honoring a single individual. All 101 contributors to Chicken Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham & Me (978-1611599053, $24.95) recognize Mr. Graham's unique ability to inspire leaders from diverse disciplines and faiths, all sharing their respect and appreciation for the evangelist's extraordinary influence over the last six decades.
In addition to stories from every living U.S. President and many other influential world leaders, the book contains tributes from artists and athletes such as Wynonna Judd, Charlie Daniels, Danny Wuerffel and NASCAR driver Jason Allgaeir. Other celebrities who share their personal experiences with Mr. Graham include media personalities such as Dan Rather, Larry King, Kyra Phillips and Kathie Lee Gifford, actors Cheryl Ladd and Kevin Sorbo, and model turned entrepreneur Kathy Ireland.
Religious leaders also pay homage to the man they consider a true mentor, with stories from Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, Tim Keller, Mark Batterson, Jud Wilhite and Miles McPherson. Even those of other faiths, such as Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and South African activist Ela Gandhi, emphasize Billy Graham's spiritual influence around the world. Finally, Mr. Graham's own family and friends honor him for his authenticity, with stories from daughters Anne and Ruth, sister Jean Ford and lifelong ministry partner Cliff Barrows.
Common themes throughout the 101 stories emphasize Mr. Graham's integrity and humility. He is revealed to be a man loving and accepting of all, with a genuine faith from which he draws peace, strength and hope that he is able to share with others. His role as a culture changer is also clearly evident, with contributors such as Bernice King and John Lewis lauding Mr. Graham's commitment to civil rights and racial equality.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham & Me will be in stores everywhere Feb. 12. Chicken Soup for the Soul is making a contribution to support the ongoing ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC, publishes the famous Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, which is distributed through Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 2007, USA Today named Chicken Soup for the Soul one of the five most memorable books in the last quarter century. Since 1993, more than 100 million books in the series have been sold in the United States and Canada alone. Chicken Soup for the Soul titles have been sold in more than 100 additional countries and translated into more than 40 languages. The company is currently implementing a plan to expand into all media, including TV shows and a major motion picture, and is also developing a digital presence for life improvement, emotional support, inspiration, and wellness. Chicken Soup for the Soul Foods, a joint venture with Daymon Worldwide Inc., will start rolling out its line of delicious, nutritious comfort foods in Spring 2013. Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing also licenses the right to use its famous brand to high-quality licensees. For more information visit www.chickensoup.com.
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Damaged Roads Slow Sichuan Rescue Efforts
Efforts to rescue survivors of Saturday's earthquake continue in Sichuan province. The WSJ's China Editor Carlos Tejada talks about difficulties in delivering aid in the region and signs that government efforts are progressing.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... he is anti SE took off ... after a seven point zero earthquake kills over a hundred eighty people and injures thousands ... and ever con joining me now is the Wall Street Journal's Carlos to hide it from Bejing ... okay at because people are still missing ... how close it was the epicenter of this quake add to the one that occurred in two thousand and eight ... it's not far off ... just in the ... southwest leave ... and that creates all kinds of problems for the government ... will be compared with the formed an ... aunt's of that was a lot of criticism of ... five years ago with the way they responded to ... that emergency they appeared to him ... no one to repeat at all our reporters on the ground tell us ... they're all kinds of rescue people there on the state media has been a very high profile ... of ... an effort to show that the People's Liberation Army and was armed police were all ... there to help in the rocks gifts ... yesterday we played out in one of the area as odd that was most severely affected were a lot of buildings felt ... a lot of those buildings were actually aam built after the two thousand and eight earthquake ... that's right in the recent questions about the league stayed its own ... know that ... the two thousand and eight quake which was in a winch on of ... you ... put the Rio up ... the spotlight on building standards in the region so aam if it turns out that these buildings and it's still worth of stuff all these years later this is our question is yes ... a K and a lot of the area of the surrounding Afghan and the cities and towns I think they're they're pretty remote are they not having any indication ... as to how ... harder it um it's been for rescue workers said to I get to some of these areas and whether or not the death toll is expected to rise up ... due to more people ... well it's extremely difficult to reach to Syria it's ... now in this low to begin with our reporters tell us that ... they were working their way into the area they saw a lot of damage to roads and one one ... side of the road it's simply a plunge down the cliff ... um they also saw of ... old love signs of repair efforts you know Clay being used to patch up ... cracks in the road for sample ... of suggesting authorities of it ... all out effort to reach these difficult areas ... of the rescue authorities yesterday said they doubt that they want to reach every single village ... um ... of where we've been in the region of ... the rescue ... workers have been there for so-called sake they really are making ... no effort to get there ... the death toll of ... really sort of routine begins on its moderate sense as we speak it's about a hundred eighty eight ... um we're hopeful that that means the reach of most or all of the areas of ... the death toll will rise more but as always this remote area and ... I with telecommunications the body can roll of possibility that maybe more than ... a can of course sad that the quake happened over the weekend ... so of any any kids that ended in two thousand and eight as well a lot of schools that fall and not survived at the investor to have not survived ... this trade at the two dozen eight earthquake any at indication as to whether or not ... any schools of were were some of the buildings that actually crumble ... we don't know when looking into that ... the ... earthquakes fortunately struck at about eight pm on Saturday ... which meant there were very little of the city's presence in school so um ... you know the reason really gospel ... okay ... that were well said thanks very much from the SA tennis pros mention we have to reporters there will keep you updated on the situation ... as the rescue continues ... I'm Deborah con

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I just stumbled across this article about a man named James Henry who didn't learn how to read or write until he was in his 90s. For most of his life, he hid his illiteracy from others. One day, James' granddaughter read to him a story about a man who learned to read and write in his late 90s. Inspired by this story, James realized it wasn't too late for him to learn how to do those things. Getting support from family members and a tutor, he learned to read and write. In fact, he ended up writing a book about his life. How cool is that.
Click here to read about James Henry's journey, as told in his own words, from being illiterate to being an author. You can also check out the news clip below.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
CNN article: Author Had Learned to Read in His 90s
Posted by Cynthia at 7:18 PM
Labels: Cynspiration, What's in the News
9 comments:
- Charlotte Cheng said...
What a great story Cynthia. Thanks for sharing!
- March 7, 2012 at 11:15 PM
- Cynthia said...
You're welcome, Charlotte!
- March 7, 2012 at 11:45 PM
- S.P. Bowers said...
That is so cool. I love when people can step up and improve themselves at any age. I hope I can be that awesome and keep learning all my life.
- March 8, 2012 at 3:48 AM
- Cynthia said...
S.P., I hope I can keep learning new things all my life too!
- March 8, 2012 at 9:51 AM
- Amber Clites said...
This is amazing! I can't even imagine what my life would be like if I didn't know how to read!
By the way you've been tagged again for The Lucky 7 Meme.
- March 9, 2012 at 1:18 AM
- Corey Schwartz said...
Aw, what a touching story!
- March 9, 2012 at 8:39 AM
- Cynthia said...
Amber, I can't either!
Corey, it is a sweet story, isn't it!
- March 9, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Amazing story. Many things are possible at any age, and learning never stops.
- March 12, 2012 at 12:42 AM
- Cynthia said...
It is an amazing story, Medeia. =)
- March 12, 2012 at 1:18 AM
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'Wreck-It Ralph' Tops Weekend Box Office
Wreck-It Ralph has destroyed this weekend's box office, bringing in a whopping $49.1 million, according to THR.
The Disney animated flick, which features the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch, and Jack McBrayer, had the top weekend debut for the studio of all time!
Denzel Washington's Flight came in at number two with $25 million, over performing what was projected for the drama.
Ben Affleck's flick Argo placed at number three with $10.2 million earned.
Coming in at numbers four and five were The Man With the Iron Fists and Taken 2, with $8.2 million and $6 million, respectively.
WHAT DID YOU SEE at the movies this weekend???


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SOURCE: Dynavax Technologies
March 21, 2013 16:00 ET
BERKELEY, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 21, 2013) - Dynavax Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: DVAX) today announced the appointment of David Novack to the position of Senior Vice President, Operations and Quality, effective March 25, 2013. Mr. Novack brings nearly 25 years of industry experience in manufacturing and supply chain operations, implementing multi-national commercial manufacturing and supply chain strategies for both global industry leaders and emerging companies in vaccines, diagnostics, and biopharmaceuticals. Mr. Novack will be joining Dynavax from Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics where he served most recently as the Global Head of Technical Operations and Supply Chain for Diagnostics, and previously as the Global Head of Vaccine Manufacturing Strategy. During his tenure at Novartis, Mr. Novack successfully developed and executed manufacturing capacity plans to meet commercial requirements, designed and executed remediation programs to be compliant with current quality standards, and was responsible for cost-effective supply chain solutions across multiple product lines.
"David's background and experience will be a valuable addition to our senior management team," said President and Chief Medical Officer, Tyler Martin, M.D. "We look forward to his contributions in the planning and implementation of a successful commercial manufacturing strategy for the advancement of HEPLISAV™ and long-term growth of the Company."
Prior to Novartis, Mr. Novack was the Vice President, Business Development for Vaxin, Inc., a vaccine company, from 2004 to 2006. From 1993 until 2004, Mr. Novack worked at MedImmune, formerly Aviron, serving in several capacities including business development, manufacturing, contract operations and most recently as Senior Director, Supply Chain Operations. Previously, from 1989 to 1993, Mr. Novack was with American Cyanamid Company in various roles. Mr. Novack received a B.S. in Biology from State University of New York and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Dynavax also reported that Stephen Tuck, Vice President, Global Technical Operations, will be departing the Company as of March 29, 2013. Said Chief Executive Officer, Dino Dina, M.D., "I want to personally express my appreciation for Stephen's many years of service and commitment to Dynavax dating back nearly to the inception of the Company."
President and Chief Medical Officer, Tyler Martin, M.D., commented, "Stephen's leadership and expertise in Technical Operations was critical to the HEPLISAV™ program over the past two years, in particular for the submission of our U.S. and European regulatory applications for HEPLISAV. We greatly appreciate his contributions to Dynavax."
About Dynavax
Dynavax Technologies Corporation, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops novel products to prevent and treat infectious and inflammatory diseases. The Company's lead product candidate is HEPLISAV, a Phase 3 investigational adult hepatitis B vaccine. For more information visit www.dynavax.com.
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5 Dead, Teen Charged in Albuquerque Shooting
(CNN) — A teenage boy faces murder and other charges in the shooting deaths of a man, a woman and three children in a home on the outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico, authorities said Sunday.
Investigators were still combing over the home on the southwestern edge of the city where investigators found the victims Saturday night, said Deputy Aaron Williamson, a spokesman for the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department. It was unclear whether the teenager now in custody is related to the victims, nor would Williamson disclose whether the victims — who included two boys and a girl — were related.
Williamson said each victim had been shot multiple times. Several guns were found inside the home, including a "military-style" rifle he said had been used in the crime.
The teen is being charged with two counts of murder and three counts of child abuse resulting in death, the sheriff's department said. He was arrested after being questioned at the sheriff's office and is likely to be arraigned on Tuesday, Williamson said.
Neither the victims' nor the suspect's identities had been released Sunday afternoon.


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Lee, Asche lead Phillies over Mets 2-1
Cliff Lee is not blaming Charlie Manuel for the Philadelphia
Phillies' lackluster season, nor is he going to credit new manager
Ryne Sandberg for their recent run of improved play.
To the lefty ace, it's on the players either way.
Lee outpitched Zack Wheeler after the Mets learned All-Star
starter Matt Harvey has a partially torn ligament in his right
elbow, Cody Asche had a two-run triple, and Philadelphia beat New
York 2-1 Monday night.
After losing to the streaking Dodgers in Sandberg's first two
games following Manuel's dismissal, the Phillies have won seven of
"We're grinding it out a little more, just playing hard from
the start to the finish," Lee said. "It's just more of a
get-after-it-and-let's-go-frame of mind."
Lee (11-3) gave a bullpen taxed by an 18-inning loss Saturday a
much-needed rest. He allowed a run and five hits in eight innings
to win for the first time in seven starts since July 5. He also
made several nice plays in the field.
Asche hit his first major league triple – with two outs in the
fourth – and the Phillies won for the second time in 15 road games.
Asche started his big league career that began July 30 in a
1-for-17 slump, but has settled in nicely since then. He is hitting
over .300, and Sandberg thinks the third baseman could be in the
majors for a while.
"He's made some adjustments," Sandberg said. "He's really
feeling comfortable in his whole game. With his approach and
line-drive stroke that he naturally has I think he's really relaxed
and he's really starting the show that he's got a good chance to
hit the ball every time."
Wheeler got two quick groundball outs to open the fourth. But he
gave up a single to Michael Young, and walked Darin Ruf. Asche then
lined a fastball into right-center and never stopped at second
base. The relay throw home was late, and Ruf easily made it
"You've got to learn to cut the distractions aside and control
your emotions and just get back to baseball," Asche said of his
slow start.
The Phillies avoided falling again behind the Mets, who lost
their fifth straight and dropped into fourth place in the NL
Jonathan Papelbon was perfect in the ninth for his 22nd save in
28 opportunities.
Wheeler (6-3) worked 6 2-3 impressive innings in his 13th big
league start.
New York lost for just the second time in 10 outings. The rising
star gave up two runs and five hits, and threw 105 pitches hours
after finding out that Harvey – the pitcher he has formed a
top-of-the-rotation tandem with – could miss all of next
Wheeler was lifted with Lee coming to bat, but he had reached
his pitch limit, and manager Terry Collins wasn't going alter the
"It's definitely going to be a while before any of us get back
up there in pitch count. It's not their fault, but it's just human
when your best pitcher goes down," Wheeler said. "It's part of
the game and I understand it."
The Mets were stunned to learn Harvey has a torn ulnar
collateral ligament. The NL Cy Young Award contender felt more
discomfort in his right forearm than usual Saturday during his
start against Detroit and he was sent to the Hospital for Special
Surgery on Monday for an exam, which included an MRI.
"It was tough. Obviously, it was the last thing I was expecting
when I went this morning," Harvey said. "I am going to do
everything I can to avoid surgery."
For now, Harvey will rest the arm. A more detailed prognosis
won't be made until the swelling in his elbow goes down, which can
take more than two weeks.
General manager Sandy Alderson said during a downcast news
conference the injury wasn't caused by one incident, but is
"progressive," so even if the 24-year-old Harvey can avoid
surgery now it might be necessary in the future. Recovery time for
Tommy John surgery is about a year.
Harvey went 9-5 with a 2.27 ERA in 26 starts and was the NL
starter in the All-Star game at Citi Field.
The right-hander sat next to injured captain David Wright in the
dugout to watch the first couple of innings of fellow first-round
pick Wheeler's outing.
Wheeler didn't disappoint, but the 2008 AL Cy Young Award winner
Lee was a bit better.
Until the eighth, Lee didn't face trouble after the Mets got a
gift in the second inning when they took a 1-0 lead.
Marlon Byrd led off the second with a routine fly to
right-center. In what appeared to be a moment of indecision between
center fielder Roger Bernadina and right fielder John Mayberry Jr.,
the ball fell in between the two for a double. Byrd scored on
Andrew Brown's single.
With two outs in the eighth, Lee struck out Juan Lagares with
runners on first and second after falling behind 2-0 in the count –
the Mets' only inning besides the second in which they had more
than one baserunner.
"I didn't feel as good as it turned out, to be honest with
you," Lee said. "I felt like I had to battle and was able to
continue to get outs."
NOTES: Collins said RHP Carlos Torres will start Thursday in
place of Harvey. Torres got two outs Monday. … The Phillies
placed OF Casper Wells on the 15-day DL because of vision problems,
two days after he gave up five runs as an emergency reliever in the
18th inning of the Phillies' loss to Arizona. Pete Orr was called
up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. … Phillies OF Domonic Brown
(right Achilles soreness) was out of the starting lineup for a
second straight game. He popped out foul in the ninth.


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Illustrated Scene Contest
Feb 01, 2010
Our Contest Team have just announced their newest contest for the month of February, the Illustrated Scene Contest. This month's contest asks you to illustrate a scene from the Harry Potter series that you find particularly moving. The entries will be judged on how you managed to evoke that way that scene made you feel through the illustration. The entry can be in any medium apart from photography and only one entry is permitted per person. Please e-mail submissions to [email protected] by 11:59 pm (EDT) on the 28th of February with "Illustrated Scene" in the e-mail's subject line. Entries must be in .jpg, .png or .gif format and the maximum file size is 1 MB. Anyone 13 years of age and over who is not involved in the judging process is welcome to enter and please bear in mind that all entries must meet the PG-13 rating.
The first place winner will receive a custom made wand donated by Wizard Wood Wands and 200 MyLeaky points. More information, including the full rules of the Illustrated Scene Contest, can be found via this link. You can also find further discussion of all of our contests in the Contest Corner Forum at the Leaky Lounge.
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Rox Top Anchors Wednesday
The St. Cloud Rox topped the Alexandria Blue Anchors on a cold, windy night at Joe Faber Field 7-5.
Daniel Comstock was the player of the game for St. Cloud, going 3-3 with three runs scored. Devin Pearson was 1-3 with three runs batted in.
The Rox are at Alexandria tonight at 7:05.


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Brabus voted as World's best tuner for the 6th year in a rowThe German publication Auto Motor Und Sport has voted Brabus to be the best tuner for the 6th straight year. There be a bit of German bias involved but there is no denying that Brabus is a tuner on a whole different level and truly one of the best. Brabus cars are almost OEM in the way they drive and that is likely due to the close relationship they have with Mercedes. Brabus is the world's largest independent tuner and we congratulate them.
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Gordon Matta-Clark: Splitting: Four Corners, 1974 (Courtesy, SFMoMA)
1. Gone Too Soon
Several themes are suggested by the Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition now at the Whitney (945 Madison Ave., to June 3, 2007), not the least of which is the early-death conundrum. Why do the best and brightest seem to die before they are 40? Here's a list: Eva Hesse (1936-70), Robert Smithson (1938-73), Matta-Clark (1943-78), Ana Mendieta (1949-85).
Many without talent die young too, and perfectly decent artists go on and on. Some even continue to produce credible work, although few indeed have Matissean late-life flowerings. Perhaps de Kooning. Pollock, of course, went out in his prime. And is that where the valorization of early expiration comes from? Or do we have to go back to John Keats, who was dead at 26?
Some have opined that an early death limits inventory and therefore raises price-per-piece on the well-worn principle that short supply plus high demand equals high return. Yet, contrary to this, I have heard that collectors like a lot of stuff floating around to show that the artist was/is a player. The potential for profit is even higher when there is a surfeit of merchandise at hand.
Perhaps more artists should impose on themselves a symbolic early death, in the manner of Marcel Duchamp who went "underground" around the ripe old age of 36. And before him there was poet Arthur Rimbaud, who quit writing at 18 and became a gunrunner in North Africa.
If artists stopped while they were ahead, we would be saved the spectacle of talents repeating themselves for the market and diluting whatever innovations made them visible in the first place. And we'd be spared the sadness of artists who once were good, who once were great.
Early death, even by cancer (which is what took Matta-Clark at the age of 35) makes a more dramatic story than expiring in a nursing home at the age of 89. Of course, if you live to 105, like Beatrice Wood -- that's another kind of story.
Dennis Oppenheim, Annual Rings, 1968
2. The Second-Generation Syndrome
Matta-Clark was a second-generation earth artist, but one who carved buildings instead of landscapes. In fact, as a architecture student at Cornell, he assisted Hans Haacke, Dennis Oppenheim, and possibly Smithson in the famous 1969 Earth Art exhibition. Oppenheim made circular "cuts" in the ice of a frozen lake; within a few years Matta-Clark was making cuts in buildings.
The art world does not like second generations. "Second generation" sounds second rate. My theory is that second-generation Abstract Expressionism was so awful it ruined it for all future second generations. I will not give you names. You know who they are, or if you're lucky you don't.
Second generations are anathema. What happens now is that we need to skip a generation and add a prefix. Neo-Pop is O.K.. just as Neo-Dada before it seemed perfectly sensible, although in the latter more than one generation was skipped.
First is not always best. Except in the art world, which is not a reasonable place. First is best because first can be proved, whereas best is a matter of taste. Too often one hears otherwise perfectly swell artists raging about having been the unacknowledged first to....you name it. Drip paint. Paint comic strips. Use silk-screens for paintings. Eschew the pedestal. Use a bulldozer or a chainsaw to make sculpture.
Matta-Clark was held back at the time he was making his breakthrough building cuts - now iconic and perennially influential - because (1) some thought he was copying the earth artists; (2) his sponsors for the remarkable Splitting of 1974, in which he cut an awful New Jersey house in half, were the collectors Horace and Holly Solomon. I liked Holly a lot even when she opened a gallery, but she had studied at the Actors Studio, was fashion-conscious, and was never taken as seriously as Virginia Dwan. Dwan came from Hollywood royalty and was able to scoop up most of the Big Boys of Minimalism and Earth Art, leaving them to John Weber when she closed. And....
Matta (Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren). (Chilean, 1911-2002). Listen to Living. 1941. Oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 37 7/8" (74.9 x 94.9 cm).
MoMA, Inter-American Fund. © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
3. The Silver Spoon
Matta-Clark's father was Matta (Roberto Matta Echaurren) the celebrated surrealist painter from Chile, who was one of the links between Surrealism and Action Painting. If the illusionistic surrealism of Salvador Dalí was first generation, then Matta's wild, nearly abstract, sci-fi surrealism was second generation.
Shortly after the birth of the Matta twins (Gordon and Sebastian), Papa Matta divorced his American wife, Anne Clark. Later Matta-Clark did later spend time with his father in Paris, who urged him to be an architect. Matta pére had studied with Le Corbusier, but bailed out of that dismal art. Nevertheless, he recommended to his son that he seek out his old New York friends Frederick Kiesler and Philip Johnson.
Matta-Clark did graduate from the architecture program at Cornell, but, like his father, he preferred art, specifically sculpture, as opposed to painting. The closest he ever got to theory was to call his project "anarchitecture," which takes on additional meaning when you read Spyros Papapetros' excellent and playful catalog essay ("Oedipal and Edible: Roberto Matta Echaurren and Gordon Matta-Clark"). Matta-Clark's father urged him to buy a house or a loft so that his mother and twin brother would feel secure.
Sebastian fell to his death out of a window of his brother's loft.
a. Matta-Clark: Circus, 1978
b. Picabia: Tres Rare Taleau..., 1915.
c. Deborah Remington, Untitled, n.d. (c.1966?)
4. Documents Become Products
How are we to look at Matta-Clark's color Cibachromes? They document various cuts. They are, we learn in the catalogue, blow-ups of tiny collages the artist made from 35mm positives. They are what we know of the sponsored building alterations, but they are more. If you squint, they look like Deborah Remington paintings, which in turn remind us of certain obscure mechanistic paintings by Picabia.
I am not alone in pointing out that the Cibachromes were Matta-Clark's answer to the documentation question raised by Earth Art and other nongallery manifestations in the late '60s. Smithson invented non-sites: bins and piles of rocks accompanied by banal snapshots and maps. Jan Dibbets began making multiple photographs the point of his art. The parts were assembled into geometric forms.
Unless we recognize Matta-Clark's Cibachromes as the artist's reinterpretations of no-longer-existing architectural interventions, they are merely handsome photographs. If one approached the work from a photography p.o.v., you could say that the chain-saw holes cut into floors and walls are only set-ups for the Cibachromes, which provide multiple points of view.
I'd give them a place of high honor in my imaginary exhibition that documents Late Cubism: de Kooning's "Women," all of Louise Nevelson, and 99% of Robert Rauschenberg's gigantic oeuvre.
This is why this little essay is presented in six parts and from six different points of view or six themes..
The difficulty is that as far as I can tell, the Cibachromes take as their subjects the commissioned, legal carvings. The urban guerrilla works, the illegal interventions Matta-Clark made in Bronx tenements and a notorious Hudson River pier known as a site for public sex, are subsumed.
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Tina Girouard, Carol Goodeen, and Matta-Clarks in front of Food restaurant, 1971 (courtesy of Matta-Clark Estate and David Zwirner)
5. Lost Horizons
Wallace Berman and His Circle (at NYU's Grey Gallery) stirred my interest in art groups. Reading the catalog for the Matta-Clark exhibition made me wish for a Greene Street exhibition. I don't think Matta-Clark took a leadership role in the early Greene Street days of SoHo, the way Berman did in Los Angeles in the '50s, but there were artists I remember.
Had SoHo even been named yet? Artists I knew and at least one minimalist composer had slide-away beds, hidden stoves, closet showers. It was still illegal to live in those ratty, old loft buildings that now only millionaires can afford.
First there was 98 Greene Street, which was mostly Holly Solomon's theater project, but I remember Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt getting a drag queen in widows weeds to kneel for hours in front of an ornate altar he had made of tinfoil and bangles. Then the artist Jeffrey Lew fronted the 112 Greene Street gallery and performance space. Others in the informal group were Richard Landry, Richard Nonas, Jene Highstein, Suzanne Harris, Roger Welch, Tina Girouard (who was one of the Matta-Clark's FOOD restaurant collaborators), the poet Ted Greenwald, dancer Trisha Brown, and Alan Saret.
6. The Alchemy Problem: Gordon Matter-Clark
One might think that because the early work involved mold and food, the transformation of garbage into art, and the FOOD restaurant, Matta-Clark would be a likely alchemical suspect. Also, rumor had it that Marcel Duchamp was his godfather. Matta pére certainly knew Duchamp. According to the collector Arturo Schwartz alchemy was Duchamp's secret inspiration. We even have lists of specialized books Duchamp may have read when he was working in a library in Paris as a young man.
We already know of this exchange at a Cordier-Ekstrom Gallery opening of Duchamp's oddments:
Robert Smithson: Oh, I see you are into alchemy.
Marcel Duchamp: Yes, indeed.
Matta-Clark, knowing what materialists his heros like Smithson were, denied being an alchemist. However, we now know from Tina Kukielski's oddly titled catalog essay ("In the Spirit of the Vegetable: The Early Works of Gordon Matta-Clark") that books by Jung were in the artist's library, as were books by Ouspensky and Gurdjieff. But didn't everyone in the '60s and early '70s read Jung, Ouspensky, and Gurdjieff? Reading Jung doesn't make you an alchemist. Reading Ouspensky and Gurdjieff doesn't make you a mystic, any more than reading Shakespeare makes you a poet.
Which leads me to the library problem.
If you do not want to leave any traces or clues, get rid of your books before the art historians get a hold of them. This is a new trend: examining the contents of dead artists' libraries. I first became aware of it with the catalog for the 2005 Smithson exhibition and was inspired to write a little essay for Artopia about books and my own library.
So that no one will be mislead and in the interest of privacy, I am seriously thinking of secretly selling off my alchemical tomes; my books by Rabbi Nachman and by Ibn Arabi. My Zohar has long been given away.
And why would anyone be certain that Matta-Clark actually read the Gurdjieff on his shelf? Although I own the Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly (who had his hand chopped off for thievery and was magus John Dee's right-hand man and skyrying partner), I have never been able to read more than a sentence or two: "But among metals there is no form more vigorous or powerful than that of Saturn, and therefore the solvent of Saturn must be sought in the vegetable world."
By the way, isn't all art about the transformation of matter, turning dross into gold, which in turn is a symbol for personal transformation?
Matta-Clark used a chain-saw to turn bad houses, tenements, abandoned piers, and office buildings into temples---letting the light shine in. Chunks of this architecture may have ended up in galleries and museums, but like the attractive Cibachromes, also on display at the Whitney, we only know the art, which was an action, by the static residue.
Matta-Clark, Day's End (Pier 52), 1975.
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Two Questions
1. Do artists have rights over their artworks even after they are sold?
2. What is a conflict of interest?
I too read other art critics, but Artopia is not metacriticism. We will leave that for other places. Nevertheless, occasionally I am stirred up. My two questions were generated by reviews that were in the N. Y. Times of Friday, February 9.
Neuberger Museum website "image" for Richard Prince exhibition
Prince Nixes Pix
The first topic is inspired by Roberta Smith's review of the current Richard Prince exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, N.Y. It's called "Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974-77." I do not fault Smith's opinions of the art. I may await Prince's forthcoming Guggenheim survey in order to get a better grip on why his prices are so high. I was always intrigued by his re-photographing of Marlboro ads, but left cold by his written-out jokes-on-canvas. The car hoods might tip the scale. Maybe then I will understand why the Guggenheim has accessed his upstate house with all contents for its permanent collection.
Prince seems to object to his early works being shown at the Neuberger. He does not own them; they come from various corporate and private collections. According to Smith, Prince previously claimed he had destroyed these mid-'70s pieces; early exhibitions at the Kathryn Markel and Ellen Sragow galleries are omitted from recent Prince tomes. SUNY Purchase professor Michael Lobel has effected the disinterment. The artist refused to allow the works to be illustrated in the catalog.
"It is hard to understand Mr. Prince's disengagement from a respectful show of works he obviously took seriously," writes Smith. "Some are a bit embarrassing, but in the main they increase his stature. Cynics might say he did it to get attention, but in principle he may be right. The unillustrated catalog aside, it could be argued that living artists should always stand back and let curators and art historians do their work."
I'm afraid that's not really the point. The real issue is whether a living artist has authority over the display and the treatment of his or her work. In the E.U., where the legal principle is called Droit Moral, the artist does; here also, but only for work made after 1990.
According to the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA), "a work reflects the personality of the artist and these rights are regarded as personal rather than economic rights. The rights granted under VARA, which are similar to those granted to creators by many other nations, are the rights of attribution and integrity..." (Smithsonian Museum).
Furthermore the Legal Information Institute of the Cornell Law School states that under VARA, "the artist shall have the right to prevent the use of his or her name as the author of the work of visual art in the event of a distortion, mutilation, or other modification of the work which would be prejudicial to his or her honor or reputation."
According to the letter of the law, Lobel and the Neuberger are off the hook: VARA doesn't apply to the Prince works. But in terms of the spirit of the law and in the eyes of Artopia, both the curator and the institution are culpable. You either respect the wishes of artists, or not. We don't want owners of artworks to cut them up to fit their walls, lend them for porn shoots, or use them for ironing boards -- as Marcel Duchamp, at his most playful, once suggested. We would never cede that artists can or should control the interpretation of their works, but while artists are alive, their decision whether to exhibit work or not should be respected.
In this regard, before there was VARA in the U.S. there was a highly publicized incident involving artists' moral rights.
Catalog: The Machine As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
Forgotten History?
Several artists in Pontus Hulten's "The Machine As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age" at the Museum of Modern Art (November 1968 - February 9, 1969) objected to how their works were displayed or maintained. Takis simply objected to where his kinetic sculpture was placed and, if I remember correctly, that it was a small piece from the MoMA collection and not, let's say, something more befitting an acknowledged leader of kinetic art. Hans Haacke - now justly celebrated for his political art -- for some reason did not like that his steam and refrigeration piece was turned off every evening by the guards. The ice that was meant to accumulate simply melted away every night. Wen-Ying Tsai also could not get staff cooperation in terms of his interactive kinetic sound sculpture. No one notified him when it wasn't working, and he was therefore represented by an artwork not fully functional, not really his.
All three artists were used to Droit Moral protections under the Berne Convention. Takis is Greek; Haacke, German; and although Chinese, Tsai had shown mainly in Paris. In 1969, the U.S. had no such law. Looking back, the fracas was a bellwether of globalization disjunctures, reflected in art practice.
But there's more.
Having alerted the press, Takis arrived and removed his sculpture, sitting with it protectively in the sculpture garden.
By this time, a full-fledged artists' group was in formation. Others I remember being involved at the early stages of what became the Art Workers Coalition were Willoughby Sharp (who founded Avalanche Magazine), critic Gregory Battcock of New Art and Minimal Art anthology fame, Benny Andrews (later head of Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts), Robert Morris, Les Levine, Tom Lloyd, Dennis Oppenheim, and, of course, the three artists already mentioned. I was also active with the group.
On January 28, our demands, which had escalated, were submitted to MoMA director Bates Lowry, the Director or MoMA. They included: "The museum should recognize an artist's right to refuse showing a work owned by the Museum in any exhibition other than one of the Museum's permanent collection" and "The Museum should appoint a responsible person to handle any grievances arising from its dealing with artists." We also demanded rental fees for artists and the now equally utopian notion of free admission to the museum. We also wanted more work by black and Latino artists shown in the museum.
Those were different times, times of protest against the war in Vietnam, and everyone was unhinged by the assassinations of JFK, then Martin Luther King, Jr. and RFK.
By May of that same year, Lowry was no longer Director.
And later in 1969, the Art Workers Coalition, now a fully formed organization, kept on dreaming up demands such as more exhibitions for women artists...not only at MoMA but in all museums and galleries. Robert Morris and Poppy Johnson were voted in as co-chairs and packed meetings of the Coalition were held at the School of Visual Arts.
MoMA Launches Latin Dud
I have often said that the art world runs on conflict of interest, but we don't like it. There are rules about such things. This second topic is inspired by Holland Cotter's brave Times review of MoMA's Armando Reverón exhibition (through April 16).
After devoting far too many words to describing some totally inconsequential art, Cotter adds the following paragraphs:
MoMA has given solo show to only four Latin American modernists. Why should Reverón be one of them? On the surface at least he exemplifies cultural stereotypes that art historians are trying to move beyond, the Latin American artist as an exotic: instinctual, irrational, primitivizing, in tune with nature, fantasy-driven, "spiritual," indebted to - rather than in control of - European forms.
Artopia agrees.
Maybe there were practical reasons for the choice. Several of the paintings in the show, organized by John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture at the museum, belong to Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, a MoMA trustee with a fabulous Latin American collection, including the largest number of Reveróns in private hands (The museum's new curator of Latin American art, Pérez-Oramas, who consulted on this show used to work for the Cisneros foundation in Caracas).
What I learned during my many years as an employee of several museums and nonprofit art institutions - and through my membership in the American Association Museums - is that there must not be even the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Artopia agrees with Cotter that MoMA's "effort to expand its definition of modernism to include the world" is positive. Artopia, however, would do more than hint that there might be better Latin American candidates for MoMA market approval. Although we are not personally familiar with the Venezuelan art scene, we do know of many Brazilian and Argentine modernists more deserving than Reverón. Contrary to Cotter's kicker, Reverón is not "an artist...you will be glad to know."
Except for one or two all-white beach paintings from the '20s and the painting props for his silly nudes, the work is so banal that we are literally forced to examine the wall labels for hidden agendas. Curator John Elderfield is a Matisse expert, but Reverón is no Matisse.
MoMA's contemporary galleries are now looking good. There's even a David Hammons African-American flag. The theme show "Out of Time" has some splendid work. It, therefore, comes as a shock to see the schlock on the sixth floor.
Kristofer Paetau and Ondrej Brody: ArtForm Accident, 2005
Finally, on a more positive note, I was greatly relieved (if you will excuse the expression) that things in New York are not as bad as in Prague. This I learned from the website of the talented and provocative Swiss art-couple Kristofer Paetau and Ondrej Brody.
Mr. Paetau threw up at the '05 ArtForm in Berlin. This choice piece of art, reflecting my sentiments about art fairs exactly, received 15,000 hits on YouTube. Mr. Brody once set himself afire as an artwork. And the two, when bored by audience taunts that they were nothing but neo-dadaists, recently destroyed their Apple computer and walked off a lecture platform in Berne.
The Paetau/Brody website also includes footage of their so-called Prague Shit-In, held in the Czech Republic National Gallery of Art. Therein, five artists simultaneously relieved themselves on the floor after revelations that the Director had purchased his own artworks for the museum's permanent collection...and at inflated prices.
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Aleister Crowley, 1875-1947
Once Was Wicked
By the time you read this, the exhibition of elegant, out-there drawings by the infamous Cameron may be closed (Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, No. 213, through February 10). I usually post my essays inspired by current exhibitions while said offerings are still available. But this time around I made an exception.
I wanted to beat the New York Times and the Village Voice on the David Hammons show, and I needed time to read through Aleister Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend, 1922. Down below, you'll see why.
Crowley's Book of the Law (1904), supposedly dictated by an angel, is available on the Internet. It is a wee bit obscure. Diary, on the other hand, is over the top and entertaining in an appalling way. According to a friend of mine, who should know about such things, it perfectly captures the bliss and then the degradation of cocaine and heroin. The two narrators are, of course, totally unreliable in this modernist or postmodernist romp disguised as a Victorian cautionary tale.
Now, when I see East Village junkies on the street or hopheads in a Target off the L.I.E., I'll know what's going on in their minds, and their lives, and why they think nobody notices their party. Crowley's cure, in the final "Purgatorio" section of Diary, is less convincing, although the list of excuses offered for taking drugs is both hysterically funny and definitive --
1. My cough is very bad this morning.
(Note: (a) Is cough really bad?
(b) If so, is the body coughing because it is sick or because
it wants to persuade you to give it some heroin?
27. ...Suppose I take all this pains [sic] to stop drugs and then get cancer
or something right away, what a fool I shall feel!
I then learned from Roger Hutchinson's level-headed Aleister Crowley, The Beast Demystified (Mainstream Publishing) that Crowley was able to maintain his heroin habit by medical prescription until his death in 1947. Seems he was given heroin in his youth as an asthma cure. As someone once said, physician, cure thyself.
The inspiration for several novels and short stories, magus Crowley once tried to hijack the Golden Dawn brotherhood from poet W. B. Yeats, founded a "religion" called Thelema, and was called the wickedest man in the world. According to his deathbed nurse, his last words were either "I am perplexed" or "Sometimes I hate myself."
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Cameron as the Scarlet Woman
Your Muse Appears
I was more than intrigued by the Cameron (1922-1995) presence in the "Semina" exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery, so seeing the exhibition at Klagsbrun was a given. And sure enough, the art topics just flowed. Topics? Problems would be a better term. Not problems in the negative sense, but problems as in geometry or algebra. The big problem is: Must you separate the art from the artist? Can you?
I need to confess that after seeing Curtis Harrington's short film The Wormwood Star (1955) in the Klagsbrun Gallery, I was hooked on Cameron's image. She is shown in her studio among her now lost or destroyed artworks reciting some of her writings. Even on the gallery's small monitor, she dominates the room, the gallery, the building, the block, and all of Chelsea. Not all of Manhattan, mind you, but certainly all of Chelsea.
So I rented "cult director" Harrington's full-length fiction-feature Night Tide (1961). The young and handsome Dennis Hopper plays the sailor in love with...I won't be a spoiler. Let us just say that the object of his attraction makes her living by sitting in a tank of water on the Santa Monica pier. Cameron plays the mysterious woman calling back the heroine to her watery roots. We do not remember Linda Lawson's Mora, but we certainly remember Cameron's Water Witch.
Then, being a scholar, I had to rent Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1956), in which Cameron, as the Scarlet Woman, upstages Henry Miller's onetime paramour Anais Nin. Yes, Anais Nin.
The film, which involves a lot of posing, posturing, and the swallowing of necklaces and gems, builds to a ritualistic climax of luxurious superimpositions. These days, it does seem, alas, like stoners playing dress-up, but Cameron burns a hole in the screen. Aside from wearing a cape once worn by Rudolph Valentino, she is almost too real. She was certainly not afraid of using lots of eye makeup and staring right into the camera with those lucid eyes.
After Cameron's marriage to rocket scientist Jack Parsons (whose "working" he thought had summoned her), our art witch spent some time in a Swiss convent and then the arty Mexican village of San Miguel Allende, where she met Leonora Carrington, the surrealist painter. Co-curator Michael Duncan, who wrote the informative Klagsbrun catalog essay, sees Cameron's art as related to Carrington's.
Cameron returned to Parsons. I guess the art colony in San Miguel was too rarified. In 1952, Parsons, a disciple of Crowley, was killed by an explosion in his garage -- an explosion that is usually called "mysterious." How could an explosion be "mysterious" in comparison to trying to make an homunculus using the Enochian calls of the Elizabethan magus John Dee?
I dare not tell you what science fiction author, in the "Babalon working," played Edward Kelley to Parsons' Dee.
After Parsons died, Cameron "retreated to the desert of Beaumont, California for a kind of 'vision quest,' living for a while in an abandoned canyon without water or power," reports Duncan.
We have already related the tale of Marjorie Cameron's 1955 tangle with the L.A. police over her "lewd" peyote-inspired drawing. She and artist Wallace Berman vowed never to show in a commercial art gallery again. Later she torched a lot of her work and then made it known that she did not want what remained shown until after her death.
So with a life like that, how can we look at the art? Well, tenderly, cautiously. Perhaps Parsons' 1946 desert ritual worked. After World War II, the empowerment women gained through serving in the war effort lingered and slowly began to flower. The women in post-war noir emblemized men's fear, but the so-called Scarlet Woman could not be stopped.
Cameron, Crucified Woman, n.d.
The angels and demons in Cameron's trippy drawings release a perfume we have not experienced before. Certainly not in the academic surrealism of Carrington, whose charm has always escaped me. The surrealist Pope Andre Breton flirted with occultism. Cameron lived it.
Cameron's drawings, now coming slowly into public view, are in some ways outside art. They are about the power of the images rather than the forms. They resonate with the art of the insane, the drug-addled, the homeless outsider, and perhaps the visionary art of someone like William Blake. Her demons, angels, and horny women are almost too Goth to be true.
Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.
-- Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law.
Cameron, Untitled, n.d.
David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, 1983
Paint It Black
The reclusive "genius" David Hammons is showing terrific new work. It's right up there with his snowball piece, his rock haircut, his African-American flag, his dark and empty gallery. His current provocation is at L & M Arts, 45 East 78th St., through February 28.
I hesitate to tell you what's in the show since it was the surprise of it that initially turned my head. But you might as well know.
Six fur coats.
Six luxurious fur coats presented on headless manikins in big, empty townhouse rooms, as if on display in a minimalist Upper East Side shop.
Here there's woodwork and polished-wood floors of the best kind. Yes, this is the way galleries used to be, before Soho and before Chelsea introduced the reverse snobbism of sealed concrete floors. When you try to enter the elegant L & M space, a discreetely uniformed guard opens the door. He's surprisingly friendly. Good casting.
The first room is empty, and you might think that this is the lit version of the great Concerto in Black and Blue that Hammons perpetrated in the cavernous Ace Gallery way back in '03. Viewers negotiated the pitch-black rooms with tiny blue-bulb flashlights. But, no. In the second room we are confronted by fur coats that have been modestly streaked with paint.
Later I'll find out there's another coat, as the security man accompanies me upstairs. Guess the bottom line is that no matter how I dress up for my uptown forays I always look slightly suspicious. The lonely, lovely chinchilla upstairs has been attacked with a blow torch.
Are the fur coats meant to be worn? I doubt it. As artworks they are probably too expensive to wear. But there isn't even a price list. How on earth am I going to write about this show?
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Are there any photographs that I can use for Artopia?
I am afraid not.
Can I take my own?
We'll have to call David. He didn't even provide us with a checklist.
Good luck, I said to myself, knowing that the artist avoids telephones
It's all so fresh, don't you think? Compared with what we usually show.
Well, not exactly. You did show Yves Klein.
Yes, that's true.
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Hammons, African-American Flag, N.D.
Like Hammons' 1983 streetwork in which he offered snowballs for sale; like his sculpture made of discarded wino-wine bottles; like his sculptures made from hair swept from Harlem barber shops; like his representation of Jesse Jackson as a white man ("How Ya Like Me Now?"), the fur coats are blunt, but surprisingly multivalent. His use of barbershop hair was more than a black artist making a black identity statement and his African-American Flag more than a Black Power joke. Likewise, his new fur coats are more than an anti-fur diatribe, if they are indeed that. I remember when animal activists used to go around spray-painting mink coats worn by ladies emerging from department stores, museums, and churches. But I also remember pre-PETA times when art collector and fur designer Jacques Kaplan issued a line of painted furs.
Given the Upper East Side showcase and his use of paint, could Hammons also be saying that art is the new mink coat?
Further Thoughts, More Contexts
Does Hammons play the art game by his own rules, or is he only playing it with a slight twist? If you really don't want to have anything to do with the art world then you should never show your work in an art gallery or a museum. Period.
I found this 1986 quote attributed to Hammons:
"The art audience is the worst audience in the world. It's overly educated; it's conservative, it's out to criticize and not to understand, and it never has any fun. Why should I spend my time playing to that audience?"
Well, David, the art audiences wasn't overly educated in 1986 and it isn't overly educated now. Furthermore, the art audience always has fun. It's the artists who mope about. Spending money on art is fun; competing with other collectors is fun. Go to any art fair and see.
On the other hand, artists need the art system to distribute and preserve their art, otherwise the art is just personal ritual. Personal ritual and its residue might be a higher form of what now passes for art, but there is no real way of proving this. Masterpieces need to be seen. And in any case it is generally agreed that art is a form of communication and/or research.
And, oh, yes, art is about art.
Hammons, How Do You Like Me Now?, 1988.
The Hammons M.O.
He is unreachable by telephone. Through an intermediary he might agree to an exhibition but he doesn't reveal what the art might be. This means, from his point of view, no one can control or inhibit him and he has the upper hand. On the other hand, he takes the risk of operating without a net. There is no feedback. No one can say: Hmmm. Mr. Hammons, maybe X is not one of your best ideas.
Judging by the catalog to a 1993 exhibition called "David Hammons, In the Hood" at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield (his birthplace), he might have just this once profited from some curatorial expertise. In the Hood and Six Sisters, consisting of five white slips affixed to a wall, and Basketball Drawing, made by bouncing a basketball off the wall around a sacred heart emblem, look great. Middle Passage, using gold necklaces, is too explicit, as is the elaborate installation called Spitting Image.
We see demonstrated in the catalogue how the curator-of-record of the Springfield show (Robert Sill) struggled to accommodate Hammons' practice. Thrift shops functioned as art-supply stores and the artist came with a bag of goodies, probably including the red, black and green Flag. The Jesse Jackson billboard image - which must have been shipped from somewhere -- was probably as startling in Illinois as it was in D. C., but the brand-new Rosa Parks billboard ("Thank you, Sister Rosa Parks"), situated outdoors, seems banal, even in Abraham Lincolnland, no matter how fine the sentiment...
I once thought I had Hammons in my clutches, having written about his Harlem hair sculptures first seen at the Just Above Midtown Gallery and then in April Kingsley's pioneering "African-American Abstraction" exhibition at P.S.1.
It was 1985 when he was in Creative Time's "Art on the Beach" at the sandy site that was to become Battery Park City. His The Delta Spirit House (done in collaboration with Angela Valeria and Jerry Barr) had to be disposed of at the end of the exhibition run.
I honestly can't remember how I got hold of him or if he called me - which is hard to imagine. Nor can I remember if it was his or idea or mine to float The Delta Spirit House across the harbor and down the Kill Van Kull, and then set fire to it in front of Snug Harbor. I was then the Snug Harbor Cultural Center Director of Visual Arts. I remember thinking this Viking funeral would be a good way to salute Robert Richard Randall, founder of Snug Harbor, and also the "aged, decrepit and worn out sailors" who passed their final days watching the tugs go by on the Kill.
It never happened. We lost touch.
Hammons, Haircut, 1992.
Resistance Can Become Existence
Hammons is walking a tightrope, trying to have it both ways. Appearing to be going his own way and yet dependent upon the art world, as every traditional, albeit Duchampian, artist must be. If he doesn't play ball he risks more and more unauthorized retrospectives just like last year's show of photocopies and computer printouts at Triple Candie that received so much press. Such is the Hammons magic that many think he himself was behind the sampling. Was he? Makes no difference, I say. Or: wouldn't put it past him.
He has, however, survived the '80s and the '90s, which is saying something. That half a million from the MacArthur Foundation might have helped.
My theme, in case you haven't caught on, is resistance to the art world. Some now refer to the art world as Moloch. You can indeed be eaten alive. I can hear the chorus now: as if I should be so lucky! Some of us are sleepers, some of us are double-agents. Nevertheless, the art world, with its smiles and deals, is the monster we love to hate, is us.
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Taselaar's 'Bliksem' Steps Up For The Lead In Cagliari, Recchi On 'Team 93' Now Out Front In The Audi Sailing Series
17 July 2009
All eyes are on two teams in particular, 2009 series leader Carlo Alberini on Calvi Network and Claudio Recchi on Team 93. On the eve of the final championship, just three points separated the two teams.
The day opened with an immediate and powerful jolt from Recchi, favoring the left, coming in hot at the mark well ahead of the fleet special thanks to the tactical decisions of Jonathan McKee. For Alberini, with Gabriele Benussi serving as tactician, things seemed to be far more complicated than they needed to be as they rounded, buried in the fleet. Recchi's closest competition was the American team of Taselaar, winner of the Scarlino edition AM32SS. Recchi's strong desire for success kept him out front for the win.
Race two resulted in the two parties carefully monitoring one another, each cautiously and conservatively interpreting the diminishing wind, while shifting left. It was a tough race for Recchi having to settle for fourtheenth. Alberini suffered a big disappointment in the results as well with an eighteenth. The race was won by Lorenzo Santini's Uka Uka Racing with Armando Guilietti at the helm and Lorenzo Bressani on tactics.
The Cagliari edition of the Audi Melges 32 Sailing Series 2009 overnight leader is Taselaar with Jeremy Wilmot on tactics. They have been in extraordinary form and perceived as tough opponents as the fleet looks ahead to the World Championship.
In the overall Series, Recchi is the new leader, now it is all up to Alberini to re-seize control.
Overall Series : Top Five Results (Provisional after three events):
1- TEAM 93 (Claudio Recchi / Jonathan McKee) pt. 69
2- CALVI NETWORK (Carlo Alberini / Gabriele Benussi) pt.76
3- PILOT ITALIA (Francesco Martino / Michele Paoletti) pt. 91
4- RUSH DILETTA (Mauro Mocchegiani / Andrea Casale) pt.98
5- MATRIX CORTINA D'AMPEZZO (Luigi Amedeo Melegari / Matteo Ivaldi) pt.101
Overall Event Results : Top Five Results (Provisional after two races):
1- BLIKSEM (Pieter Taselaar / Jeremy Wilmot) 2,4: pt.6
2- UKA UKA RACING (Lorenzo Santini / Armando Guilietti / Lorenzo Bressani) 8,1: pt.9
3- MATRIX CORTINA D'AMPEZZO (Luigi Amedeo Melegari / Matteo Ivaldi) 4,5:pt.9
4- ARGO -USA (Jason Carroll / Ben Bardwell) 3,8: pt.11
5- ACTION TEAM (Francesco Martino / Michele Paoletti) 9,3: pt.12
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
Reply #45 on:
May 1, 2008, 12:55 PM »
Hasbro Toy Shop is showing basically anything that's out now in stock and at $6.99ea. Why is it that Hasbro is selling these for less than the retail price? Or is it the retailers who are just trying to push the price up? Either way it seems like Hasbro want's to gradually push buyers into buying from them instead of stores. Reminds of something Marvel did back in the early/mid 90's. A move that put a lot of comic shops out of business...
I preordered cases on this line. I'd rather pay the shipping, get the complete assortment and not waste a bunch of gas doing it. I don't have them yet but I can wait and it sounds like stores might be dropping the ball on this one. I'm pretty much only interested in ROTLA and TLC figures. I wasn't a big fan of TOD. I may change my tune though once I see these in person. I'd like to see them release updated versions of older playsets but since they have yet to put out an updated Death Star I doubt I'll see an updated map room or well of souls.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 01:13 PM »
Today I hit two Targets - one had Wave 1 figures, grabbed 1-2 of each. The same store had the vehicles and wave one deluxes, but I already had those so I passed, except for grabbing another Nazi 2-pk.
Hit three Walmarts - none had the figures out, but I was able to pop open a couple cases at one store of Wave 2 - so I got one each of that wave.
Hit TRU, they had about 3-4 cases of Wave 2 out, I grabbed a couple extras. No deluxes or vehicles were there though, or even space for them.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
Reply #47 on:
May 1, 2008, 01:23 PM »
I'm glad someone mentioned the paint apps. I forgot this in my last post but I went through the entire rack of figures to find an Indy that I liked. This is the one with the fertility idol from RotlA. Most of them had messed up eyes that made Indy look crazed. Finally found one with good paint apps.
The other characters didn't seem to suffer the same problem. Even the Cairo Indy and the Deluxe were mostly fine, just the version I was after...figures...
I wish I'd caught that 20% and free shipping coupon on HTS.com. I would have ordered the truck and a couple more figures. Oh, well. I'll use the Target coupons.
I also wanted to mention that after seeing these in person I'm more impressed with them. Especially figures like the German soldiers, Marion and Monkey Man. They really look well done. I'll be opening these when I get home so I hope they hold up as toys.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 01:24 PM »
Ok - so at lunch I went to the TRU near where I work and I was able to pick up the following:
1x Indy w/Crystal Skull
1x Indy w/Bazooka
1x Mutt w/Sword
1x Mutt w/Snake
1x Cemetary Warrior
1x Russian Soldier
1x Colonel Dovchenko
1x Ugha Warrior
1x Indy w/Horse
1x Indy w/Temple Pitfall
1x Indy w/Temple Trap
1x German Soldier w/Motorcycle
They had several cases of Wave 2 Rev 2 and Wave 2 Rev 3 and neither case seemed to have an Irina Spalko - so that's the only figure I still need from the first two waves.
I'll probably try to pick up a couple more Ugha Warriors and Russian Soldiers (like I did with the German Soldier figure) but I'm going to wait on that.
The figures at TRU all rang up for $6.99 and the deluxe figures were the same as at Target, $9.99.
They had three cases of the vehicles assortment, but they were still closed and the employees were giving me a hard time for going through the open boxes so I wasn't about to open any of them. I'll go back after work and see if the Jungle Cutter is there, but I doubt it.
Last Edit: May 1, 2008, 01:28 PM by Pete_Fett
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 02:37 PM »
I made a run to TRU this morning and picked up most of what I was looking for. They had both Wave 1 and 2 there (no Marions though), but didn't have the deluxe of the vehicles. They had a modest section at the front of the store (a display aisle split with Dark Knight, Iron Man, Hulk, and Narnia). Overall they probably just had a case of each there or so. When I got home I realized that I forgot to grab the jacketed version of the KOTCS Indy, but that one hopefully won't be too tough to grab later. I stopped off at the WM next to TRU to see if they had there stuff out, and they did. It was just in the normal aisle next to Star Wars. I was able to grab the Cemetery Warrior from KOTCS (TRU also didn't have that one), a few deluxes (German Soldiers, Indy w/Ark, Marion/Henchman), and decided to grab the Truck.
Overall, the only things I don't recall seeing at either store were the basic Marion figure, the deluxe Indy w/Horse and German Motorcycle, or - surprisingly - any of the Mighty Muggs or Tater (unless I missed them, wasn't looking that hard). I'm with others that have mentioned it, the Mrs. isn't thrilled about me picking this stuff either. I try to explain the "other things I could be spending money on", as well as the "Star Wars lull", but they don't seem to be hitting the mark this time
. Overall, a big haul though I guess, and its nice to not have too much to look for for awhile now. We should start a "May 1st Haul" thread like we did with ROTS stuff, just to see what everyone is finding and picking up
. Oh, and the basic figs were $6.99 at TRU, $6.94 at WM here.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 03:04 PM »
Yep... Target's charging higher than Wally and TRU for the initial launch... as predicted... they seem to have a trend going here.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 04:54 PM »
Here's my May 1st haul, even though most of you couldn't care less:
9 Nazi Soldiers (3 Basic, 3 2-packs)
Indiana Jones (Cairo)
Indiana Jones with Ark
German Troop Car
German Truck
All cool stuff right here. The Nazis make good Imperial infantry, so I'll definitely have to get another 3-7 more. The Cairo Indy is surprisingly cool. The bendy whip/action feature are a lot of fun. The vehicles are superb. The boxes are nifty, and would be cool to see on Star Wars toys.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 06:59 PM »
so in my haste this morning becuase i went before work, i totally left the russian soldier on the pegs.
Stupid me...so now i just need him.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 07:32 PM »
Bought a Monkey Man at Wal-Mart. Cool figure but needed knee articulation IMO. The robes open enough it would be useful.
Cool monkey.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 07:51 PM »
I haven't seen any of these yet in either Walmart or Target - but when I do my sole interest is a few of these guys for the AK-47 assault rifles and beretta style handguns:
Gotta arm my 30 Dresselian guerrillas with slug-firing weapons.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 09:20 PM »
Actually, at my TRU, there was no Russion Sodier. Or Cemetary Warrior, Sallah, Monkey Man and Marion. It's cool I guess, I got lots of stuff, but still need to search. Hasbro is sooooo sneaky!
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 09:26 PM »
according to zellers these dont come out till tommorow and wm doesnt even know what indy was and kept telling me to go to the electronics dept. WTF for toys? today was a flop. made me lose a little interest in this line.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 09:54 PM »
It's funny, my wife seems very behind me collecting. I guess she has enough friends whose husbands go drinking often, or spend every sunday of football season in front of the TV or at Giants Stadium. There's a lot worse spending habits I could develop. I guess the fact that we got a stupid huge tax return (five digits...) and that two of my books are selling well there's some wiggle room with money right now...which is good.
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 10:11 PM »
Canadian Indy debut was clearly a weird experience.
Like jangotat I didn't find anything at Zellers (a lame Canadian parallel to Target, but probably closer to K-Mart).
Only one of four Walmarts had anything out and it was just one case of deluxe figures. They clocked in at 16.92 per which is just too much for me when US retail is $9.99.
TRU had some stuff out including vehicles, deluxe, 12" and ROTLA figs, but no KOTCS at all.
I didn't spring for any of the single carded figures for a couple of reasons. First, the price. Not bad by Canadian standards at $9.99 for single figures but knowing there might be another HTS.com coupon and free shiping that'll take them down to half that price means I'm in no hurry. The second reason is the bigger reason. Indy's eyes, and it didn't matter whether it was the figure with the jacket or without, were like a two year old painted them on. They are exactly like the photos that I was hoping were prototypes that were to be fixed, but nope. I looked at every figure of those single carded Indy's and wouldn't and won't buy them. I want the figs, I want the accessories that come with it, but that's one serious thyroid problem there. And I could get it if it was a production run on just one of the regular figures, but both? Quality control out sick the day those ran through? Yeesh.
Thankfully TRU had some mispricing on their stuff. Never is TRU cheaper than Walmart in Canada on anything at regular price but at one of the stores they had the $9.99 SKU on the peg for the deluxe figures. I took them to the scanner but they came up not on file. So I went to the checkout and was honest saying don't know your price, checked, nada. The girl went and grabbed the SKU off the pegs and ran them through at $9.99 each. Not a big deal south of the border but it saved me $7+taxes on each of the four I bought. Over $30
So in checking over the figures, I found a couple of Indy's that looked ok. I picked up and am happy with:
Indiana Jones with Ark
Indiana Jones with Temple Trap - I had zero intention of buying this, but it was the only decent ROTLA Indy
Marion Ravenwood and Cairo Henchman - the Marions are indeed identical and some have bad eyes too
German Soldiers
I was hoping they'd have had Indy with horse and the German motorcycle at that price too, but none at either TRU unfortunately.
I'm hopeful the later Indiana figures in assortments are better done for the eyes, or I probably won't be buying them. Honestly, they look that crappy. Please, please Hasbro, don't butcher anymore of the eyes on these figures or this line is dead as a doornail before the movie ever comes out.
Last Edit: May 1, 2008, 11:09 PM by Morgbug
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Re: May 1st - What are you buying?
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May 1, 2008, 10:55 PM »
I ended up with everything I was looking for after stopping at WM, which earlier (around noon) didn't have anything out. I did find Spalko and the Indy w/ Ark there. I was going to buy the Indy figures from KOTCS, but all the figures there had eye paint that made them look cross-eyed.
I didn't see any Sallah or Monkey Man figures at all today, and only one Marion.
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As young boys growing up in post war Georgia in the late 1860s, early 1870s, Jefferson Randolph Smith II and his cousin, Edwin, loved to hunt. On one expedition, with their parents blessing, they traveled nearly 240 miles between their home in Coweta County to the coastal shipping town of Brunswick, where they came very close to becoming sailors on an outgoing ship.
Edwin Bobo Smith was eighteen months older than his Cousin Jeff. The boys were double first cousins as their fathers were brothers and their mothers were sisters. Cousin Ed's family lived "within a stone's throw" of Cousin Jeff's. Growing up together, the boys referred to one another as "brother." In their youth, they planned to stay together for the rest of their lives. Here is how Edwin characterized his boyhood relationship with Jeff:
There was a natural affinity besides the tie of close blood relationship, and the inseparable companionship endured for many years. Our ages were nearly the same but his superior daring and adventurous spirit made me a satellite. Hunting and fishing were mutual passions, and we quickly learned to handle guns expertly, ruthlessly decimating the small game in our area. One winter, after agreeing that we were weary of this petty sport of quail and squirrel slaughter, we got a reluctant assent of our elders to go on an extended trip for the bagging of bigger stuff. We headed for the big pinelands of the coastal region south of Savannah, and we got there partly by rail and partly afoot, helped occasionally by riding in the wagon of a friendly farmer. Our minds were set on bringing down the red deer and maybe a bear in the cane breaks, to say nothing of the waterfowl along the streams. The expedition was a triumph and we wrote home of getting seven good-sized bucks, quite a few wild turkeys and no end of marsh hens, but the score took in no bear. On Saint Simon Island we encountered a novelty, something utterly unexpected from which we were enabled to make money; from a native who got a living that way we learned to be trappers of mink that abound along the reedy shores of that beautiful domain. The skins brought a dollar apiece in the Savannah market and we were in the fair way to become capitalists when a peremptory message summoned the young trappers home. It was a bitter pill to go back when fortune was smiling and Jeff, surveying the fleet of sailing ships that came from all ports of the world into the harbor at Brunswick for lumber and resin and turpentine, said,
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"Let's go away on one of them, Ed, and see the world." He must have read my thoughts for the same notion had been fluttering through my mind. Landlubbers as we were we had been mingling with the captains and crews of full-rigged ships, barques and schooners from distant ports and the master of one seeing our quickness to learn the ways of vessels and celerity in skinning up the rope ladders offered to let us work our passage with him to Buenos Aires. If I had only said the word, away we would have sailed on the next tide, but the vision of a sad mother interposed and so the dreams of a pair of embryo sea rovers were frustrated as one wouldn't embark without the other. I have often speculated whether our whole lives would not have been altered had we made that voyage; if we might not have become wedded to the deep and sailed the seven seas to the end of our days.
As it was, we went home, entirely by rail this time by virtue of our mink-gained coin, and though we didn't know what halos were, they had accrued to us as the home folks turned out to hear the wondrous details of the intrepid explorers' exploits in far off spaces. As a consequence, the explorers felt their importance considerably, and as traveled men deemed themselves much superior to the juveniles who had never crossed the county boundaries. It is true they had been away only six weeks, but it seemed six years so much had happened….
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Bindi Irwin, his 18-year-old daughter, has often taken to social media on birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions to share memories of her dad.
Bindi was 8 when her father died after being pierced by a stingray barb while filming a documentary in Batt Reef, Australia.
To mark the 10th anniversary of his death, she posted a photo of Irwin going full-on "Lion King" with his baby daughter, according to TODAY.com
"You'll be my hero for my entire existence," she wrote in the caption. "I love you more than words can describe."


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Felicity 8W
Date of Birth: March 2003
Gender: Female
Eyes: Green
Hair: light brown
Character: The friendly, sociable, affectionate
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