Misc.: November 2004 Archives
Great post over at artblog.net about art-world gobbledygook. The layers of jargon in Franklin's example show the inaccessible elitism that walls off art from a wider audience - and it ain't $20 museum entrance fees.
My first kid was born yesterday, a boy. August Henry Walker arrived at 4:19 pm weighing in at a respectable 7 pounds 2 ounces. Give 'im a couple of weeks and he'll be tagging along on the Chelsea gallery crawls.
I'm tardy on this, but congratulations to Caryn over at art.blogging.la. Her gallery, sixspace, has opened its first photography show entitled "snapshot".
The show collects works from five emerging LA photographers. The most promising is Andy Mueller whose work is shown above. Most pieces would qualify as affordable, even by my thrifty standards.
Through Dec. 4 at sixspace
549 West 23rd St
Los Angeles, CA
(213) 765-0248
Over the weekend, Gallery Hopper hit 1000 unique visitors in a month for the first time. Most of you appear to be stopping by once a week. All good news. Keeps me motivated to keep this up; I'm vain. I need an audience.
More importantly, my first kid will arrive today. My wife's scheduled for a c-section birth this afternoon, so by day's end, if all goes as planned, we'll have a bouncing baby boy. I promise to keep baby picture posts to a minimum. But posts of any kind will likely drop off. Trying to load up the queue in advance.
So I'm perusing the NY Times this morning and I run across this NetJets ad in the Saturday Arts section (not the big Sunday section.) If you're interested in visiting the major art shows over the next year - Art Basel Miami, Maastricht Art Faire, The Venice Biennial, Frieze Art Fair - you might look into NetJet, basically a timeshare for private planes. A not-so-quick scan of their Web site comes up with this little gem: "You can purchase a 1/16th interest in a new Citation Encore for as little as $487,500." That's about 50 hours of flying time for a year, but you still have to pay monthly maintenance fees and fueling/catering/landing/etc. fees when you use the plane.
I can't wait for tomorrow to come so that all my art blogging compadres will go back to talking about art and put this election business behind them. You have no idea how badly I want to wake up tomorrow and discover that John McCain has won the presidential election with a 11th hour write-in campaign.
