NEWSgrist: What's Art Got Do Do With It? (part 2): Art world mobilizes

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Wednesday, Sunday, September 05, 2004
What's Art Got Do Do With It? (part 2): Art world mobilizes


via The Art Newspaper - links courtesy of NEWSgrist:
Art world mobilises against Bush
Galleries and dealers break their usual silence to put their voices where
their votes are
By Charmaine Picard

Art dealers are typically cautious not to offend their clientele by taking
strong positions on controversial topics. This year, however, the rules
have changed. Dealers and artists in New York have become visibly
politicised and have been actively raising funds and campaigning for
Democratic candidate John Kerry in the run up to the US presidential
election on 2 November.

In July the Cheim & Reid [sic] Gallery held a fundraiser for Senator
Kerry. The partisan event cost the gallery a major client who had
previously purchased works of art valued at over $1 million. This is the
most important election of my lifetime, gallery owner John Cheim told The
Art Newspaper. If people choose not to patronise the gallery because of
our political affiliation then so be it.

Other art dealers such as Andrea Rosen and Friedrich Petzel prominently
display voter registration cards in their galleries. The James Cohan
Gallery recently sponsored a phone-banking party together with the
grassroots organisation moveon.org, inviting volunteers to make telephone
calls to potential voters in key battleground States.

Downtown for democracy (D4D), an organisation made up of creative-media
professionals, is registering voters on the streets during art-gallery
openings. The activist group Artists against the war is distributing
banners in New York and across the country as a sign of opposition to the
current administration.

In June, two significant auctions were held in New York. Buy art, bye bye
Bush, the brainchild of dealer Ronald Feldman, was organised under the
aegis of Democratic Victory 04 and held at Philips, de Pury & Company,
raising over $2.1 million. The dealer Larry Gagosian and Canadian
architect Frank Gehry donated a sculpture valued at $1 million and artists
Chuck Close, Richard Prince and the Calder family, among others, each
donated works valued in the six-figure region.

A second auction, Art works for hard money, sponsored by D4D at Gavin
Browns Passerby, catered to a younger collector base and raised over
$80,000.

When asked why this election is so important to him, Chuck Close,
co-chairman of the Democratic Victory auction, said: Id like regime
change. The administration is on the wrong course, I have feelings about
the illegitimacy of the presidency and about the illegitimacy of the war.
This regime is taking away peoples rights in the name of homeland
security. Our basic civil rights, freedom of _expression and freedom of
speech, among several other issues, are at risk. When The Art Newspaper
asked Larry Gagosian about his donation to the auction, he voiced similar
concerns about freedom of _expression: I take the First Amendment very
seriously, we all should.

Campaign finance reform laws passed in 2000 placed limitations on direct
contributions to federal candidates, yet the legislation left loopholes in
the law that allow for fundraising for party-related activities such as
voter registration and advertisements particularly in key battleground
states.

As a corollary, previously isolated interest groups are banding together
and are collaborating. In this way art auctions and other art-related
events have been able to link up with larger and better connected national
organisations such as America Coming Together, principally funded by
Guggenheim Museum trustee Peter B. Lewis, and billionaire financier George
Soros, ensuring that funds will be steered specifically towards Democratic
candidates, voters and issues.

It is no secret that artists and dealers in the US are often registered
Democrats, and unsurprisingly the Republican Party is not benefiting from
their recent political mobilisation. Although there are a number of
prominent US collectors who have longstanding Republican affiliations,
including Ronald S. Lauder, chairman of the board of trustees of MoMA,
Henry R. Kravis, member of the board of trustees of the Metropolitan
Museum who served as New York State co-chairman of George H. W. Bushs
presidential campaign in 1992, and Norman Braman, the Miami art collector
and philanthropist, their partisan activities seem to be limited to the
traditional political sphere.

And it must be pointed out that it is hardly a surprise that many artists
and dealers in New York are Democrat. In the city, only one in eight
voters is registered as a Republican; only three of the 51 city councils
members, two of the 65 State assembly members, and one of 14 congressmen
are Republican. No Republican presidential candidate has won the New York
City vote since World War II.

Sunday, September 05, 2004 at 11:00 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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Revisiting the Culture Wars in Cincinnati


[Image: Ronald Reagan, seen in a print by Robbie Conal: the focal point of
1980's political art.]

via NYTimes:
Battleground Art: Revisiting the Culture Wars in Cincinnati
By RICHARD B. WOODWARD
CINCINNATI: IT's hard to imagine a better time or place than this election
year and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati to mount the
exhibition "Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980's."
What more symbolic venue could there be for a show about yesteryear's
culture wars? It was the Contemporary, after all, that was besieged in
1990 when its then director, Dennis Barrie, was hauled into county court
for "pandering obscenity" after showing Robert Mapplethorpe's homoerotic
photographs.

Cincinnati remains a conservative redoubt in a battleground state. But the
selection of paintings, sculptures, videos and photographs in this show
on view through Nov. 21 in Zaha Hadid's acclaimed new building feels like
a brave attempt by a rejuvenated institution to confront its local
audience, and perhaps at the same time begin to repair the city's
reputation for cultural provincialism.

It is doubly daring that so much of the material is highly sexual and
partisan.
[…]

Perhaps a show built around these still-contentious issues can't be called
successful without protesters on the sidewalk or museum officials on
trial. It may take another 20 years before the period can be assessed
without fear of lawsuits. Today artists have expressed their political
views more immediately on the Internet and in street demonstrations, but
not as pungently on the walls of galleries. Visitors to this show who were
not conscious of events in the 80's may leave thinking that even though
American troops were not overseas fighting in a divisive war, the
temperature of art during that period burned much hotter. […]

Sunday, September 05, 2004 at 10:14 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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Friday, September 03, 2004

On The Road to Washington


The Truck is on the road…

Friday, September 03, 2004 at 03:02 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Thursday, September 02, 2004

What's Art Got To Do With It?


Remember our late August pre-RNC post Angry Artists Everywhere Unite,
which quoted Roberta Smith's excellent roundup of politically relevant
exhibitions in and around the city? She included a teaser about the then
forthcoming Fall Issue of ArtForum:

"Artforum, the city's leading contemporary art journal, shelved its
original plans for its September issue in favor of publishing a portfolio
of politically related works commissioned from 14 artists, including
Richard Serra, Barbara Kruger and Jonathan Horowitz. One of the works, a
portrait of Mr. Kerry by the painter Elizabeth Peyton, which
simultaneously celebrates and exaggerates the notion of his being
sensitive, is on view at Ms. Peyton's gallery, Gavin Brown's Enterprise,
through Election Day. The Artforum issue, which goes on sale Wednesday,
includes an array of articles touching on the issues of so-called
political art and should keep the art world talking all fall."

Well the Fall Issue is out. I thought Tom Sachs' cover might look good
above the Bush/Orwell button (previous post). Here's a taste of the
contents, some of which are online such as Choire Sicha's Top Ten.

Btw, this Top Ten gets props from Greg Allen who gives it his [almost
unheardof] thumbs up ("Just this time, it's good"), warming especially to
Choire's own special brand of "esoteric crap."

Esoteric crapping around aside, Choire also quips the artworld (No.5:
"When art dealers get together there's always a Heathers vibe going on"),
gets down on art criticism (No.9: "HILTON KRAMER/CHARLIE FINCH DEATH
BATTLE") and does justice to some of the best bloggers and photoblogging
in particular, mentioning all-time favorites such as Mike Epstein of
Satan's Laundromat ("There's a good chance 2005 will be the year of the
photo-blogger, as more of them make their way to gallery walls. Chief
among the other great soon-to-be-discovereds…") and NPR commentator Paul
Ford's Ftrain (Nos. 1 + 8 respectively). And there was something funny
about Susan Sontag (No.10) and–what was it? Oh right: camp.

I guess I probably shouldn't mention that Choire Destroyed My Art Career
but I'm all bent out of shape from blogging the convention.

Thursday, September 02, 2004 at 03:58 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004

1984/2004?

[image: bush/orwell button]

I couldn't resist.
Via Men in Black's Punk and Paranoid Link Archive

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 04:13 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Better Red Than Dead


via SmartMobs:
Aldon Hynes at Greater Democracy is posting text, audio, and digital
photos, updates on the protest.


[The sign the woman is holding says: "This Red t-shirt says, in Chinese
SAY NO TO BUSH. Ask me what the blue t-shirt says."]

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 12:47 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Pink Slip Protest Pics


Thanks to bloggy for pointing out the Newsday pics of the RNC protests,
including this image (and more) of the "Unemployment Line" protest
mentioned in an earlier post. Check out bloggy's post on Newsday, the
NYTimes and the First Amendment.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 12:35 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Speaker Hastert Smears Soros


via Eyeteeth:
Is Hastert on crack? House Speaker Dennis Hastert makes a wild
hypothesis–that Open Society Institute founder and progressive funder
George Soros is a drug lord. Yow:

"You know, I don't know where George Soros gets his money. I don't know
where if it comes overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from,"
Hastert mused. An astonished Chris Wallace asked: "Excuse me?" The Speaker
went on: "Well, that's what he's been for a number years George Soros has
been for legalizing drugs in this country. So, I mean, he's got a lot of
ancillary interests out there." Wallace: "You think he may be getting
money from the drug cartel?" Hastert: "I'm saying I don't know where
groups - could be people who support this type of thing. I'm saying we
don't know."

Or is Gingrich? It must be a calculated smear; just a day after Hastert's
retarded comment, Newt Gingrich reasserted the claim, saying that Soros
"wants to spend $75 million defeating [President] George W. Bush because
Soros wants to legalize heroin."

via The Daily News:
LOOSE-TONGUED SPEAKER? Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - having
already enraged some New Yorkers with his remarks about local
office-holders' "unseemly scramble" for federal money after 9/11 -
yesterday opened a second front. On "Fox News Sunday," the Illinois
Republican insinuated that billionaire financier George Soros, who's
funding an independent media campaign to dislodge President Bush, is
getting his big bucks from shady sources. "You know, I don't know where
George Soros gets his money. I don't know where - if it comes overseas or
from drug groups or where it comes from," Hastert mused. An astonished
Chris Wallace asked: "Excuse me?" The Speaker went on: "Well, that's what
he's been for a number years - George Soros has been for legalizing drugs
in this country. So, I mean, he's got a lot of ancillary interests out
there." Wallace: "You think he may be getting money from the drug cartel?"
Hastert: "I'm saying I don't know where groups - could be people who
support this type of thing. I'm saying we don't know."

via Joi Ito:
Soros responds to drug money insinuation
You do a discredit to yourself and to the dignity of your office by
engaging in these dishonest smear tactics. You should be ashamed.

For the Speaker of the House of Representatives, even in the midst of an
election season, to descend to a level of political discourse where
innuendo and slander replace reason, truth and argument is unacceptable.

This past Sunday, on national television, you suggested that I might be a
criminal simply because I have exercised my First Amendment rights to
dissent from the policies of the Bush administration…

I must respectfully insist that you either substantiate these claims –
which you cannot do because they are false – or publicly apologize for
attempting to defame my character and damage my reputation.

PDF of letter via BoingBoing.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 10:46 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Armies of the Night (part IV): RNC/NYC Updates


[image via Gothamist - see below]

Gothamist: Protesters Come Out In Force

MTAA-RR: Update from 1 Penn Plaza & around town

Satan's Laundromat: City under siege
"As you can imagine, my arrest didn't exactly endear the NYPD to me…"

NYTimes: At Least 900 Arrested in City as Protesters Clash With Police

The Daily News: Takin' it to the street

NYPost: MARCHING RIGHT TO JAIL

The Village Voice: Not Since Herbert Hoover
"People for the American Way and the Imagine Festival created a
5,000-person strong "Unemployment Line" this morning on Broadway from Wall
St to MSG, representing 1.2 million jobs lost under Bush."

More pics from Village Voice: The Weather Report

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 at 10:45 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Ron Reagan's Cold Case File (Against Bush)


The Case Against George W. Bush
The son of the fortieth president of the United States takes a hard look
at the son of the forty-first and does not like what he sees

By Ron Reagan
Esquire, September 2004, Volume 142, Issue 3
Illustration by Tim O'Brien [printable version]

excerpts:
Does anyone really favor an administration that so shamelessly lies? One
that so tenaciously clings to secrecy, not to protect the American people,
but to protect itself? That so willfully misrepresents its true aims and
so knowingly misleads the people from whom it derives its power? I simply
cannot think so. And to come to the same conclusion does not make you
guilty of swallowing some liberal critique of the Bush presidency, because
that's not what this is. This is the critique of a person who thinks that
lying at the top levels of his government is abhorrent. Call it the honest
guy's critique of George W. Bush.
[…]

Scenario typical of the 2000 campaign: While debating Al Gore, Bush tells
two obviousif not exactly earth-shatteringlies and is not challenged.
First, he claims to have supported a patient's bill of rights while
governor of Texas. This is untrue. He, in fact, vigorously resisted such a
measure, only reluctantly bowing to political reality and allowing it to
become law without his signature. Second, he announces that Gore has
outspent him during the campaign. The opposite is true: Bush has outspent
Gore. These misstatements are briefly acknowledged in major press outlets,
which then quickly return to the more germane issues of Gore's pancake
makeup and whether a certain feminist author has counseled him to be more
of an "alpha male."

Having gotten away with such witless falsities, perhaps Mr. Bush and his
team felt somehow above day-to-day truth. In any case, once ensconced in
the White House, they picked up where they left off.
[…]

But image is everything in this White House, and the image of George Bush
as a noble and infallible warrior in the service of his nation must be
fanatically maintained, because behind the image lies . . . nothing? As
Jonathan Alter of Newsweek has pointed out, Bush has "never fully
inhabited" the presidency. Bush apologists can smilingly excuse his
malopropisms and vagueness as the plainspokenness of a man of action, but
watching Bush flounder when attempting to communicate extemporaneously,
one is left with the impression that he is ineloquent not because he can't
speak but because he doesn't bother to think.

Read it all.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 12:58 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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</BUSH> (or The Revenge of the Nerds)


I saw a guy wearing a tshirt with this message at the march – here's an
elaboration of </BUSH> :

via BoingBoing:
Xeni Jardin: A slew of riot nrrd updates from BoingBoing readers about
protest, art, and tech mixing at the Republican National Convention in NYC
this week.

* Bunnyhero says, "The RNC mobile network, or RNCmobnet, is a moblog
dedicated to utilizing the power of the collective cell network during the
Republican National Convention demonstrations by enabling mobile postings
by just about anybody with a properly enabled mobile device."

* Phil Haack points us to the image shown here, and says, "This is the
geekiest protest sign ever – photo taken by a friend in New York."

* Reader Jeff McHugh loved that "/BUSH" sign so much, he created a shop on
cafepress where you can purchase bumper stickers, mugs, and the like. >
snip! <

via Haacked:
"And for you non geeks out there, this image is funny because </TagName>
is the format for an HTML end tag. Thus, </BUSH> means end Bush or in
other words, no more Bush. I showed this to my lovely wife who basically
replied, "umm…ok. I think I'll continue to have a life while you do your
nerd thing."

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 12:40 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Baghdad in No Particular Order


TONIGHT:

Film Screening
Baghdad in No Particular Order
Directed by
Paul Chan, 2003, 51 minutes

Tuesday, August 31, 7:30 p.m
Free admission
Location: The New School, 65 Fifth Avenue, Swayduck Auditorium

"Baghdad in No Particular Order" is an ambient video essay of life in
Baghdad before the invasion and occupation. The filmmaker will be present
to introduce the film and lead Q&A after the screening with Kathy Kelly of
Voices in the Wilderness.

Presented as part of the Imagine Festival by the The Vera List Center for
Art and Politics at The New School and the Milano Graduate School of
Management and Urban Policy, New School University. The Imagine Festival,
which coincides with the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York
City, is hosting over 200 citywide events that mix artistic and
educational activities through a series of concerts, performances,
screenings, forums, town meetings and other extraordinary cultural
happenings. Complete schedule of citywide events at: www.imagine04.org

Here are some sample pages from the film's project website:

The Art Market

Paintings

Music

Pop Stars

Sadness as the primary value in music

Books flapping

Names & Faces

This is the Baghdad You Destroyed

Drawing 5

Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 11:41 AM in Film | Permalink:
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Monday, August 30, 2004

Arrestees Denied Food, Water, Medicines, Lawyers

via The Weather Report:
100 CENTRE STREET–The National Lawyers Guild held an emergency press
conference this morning to denounce the apparent denial of basic rights to
those arrested in this week's protests. Yetta Kurland, of the Guild,
called special attention to a pregnant woman, Kate Lalier, who has been
held since 8 p.m. last night and not yet given food; and to five women
currently being detained who are daisy-chained together, one of whom has a
broken foot. There have also been reports of people being denied
medications needed for chronic illnesses, and of people suffering chemical
burns from sitting or lying for hours on the floor of Pier 57, which is
covered with a thick sludge of diesel oil and other chemicals from the
vehicles usually kept there.

Of the at least 250 people arrested last night, only 20 have been released
so far. Six were freed with desk appearance tickets last night, the common
procedure for those arrested on misdemeanor charges.

In addition, seven National Lawyers Guild members, who are meant to be
neutral legal observers, have been arrested on the streets, some thrown to
the ground and one struck on his bicycle by an officer on a scooter. […]

But the focus of particular ire from Councilmembers Margarita Lopez and
Charles Barron, who spoke, has been the systematic infringment of people's
right to counsel. Normally at demos like these, the National Lawyers Guild
gets the names of arrestees from friends or witnesses and uses those lists
to invoke the individuals' right to seek counsel.

More of this article. More about the NLG NYC Chapter.

Monday, August 30, 2004 at 12:47 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Camera/Iraq


via The View From Seymour:
…a blog worth visiting: Camera/Iraq is devoted to the use of images in
the propaganda around the war in Iraq.

via Camera/Iraq:
…a project by Carleton College's Cinema & Media Studies Department to
gather news and commentary about public and personal photographic image
practices associated with the War of Images in the Middle East. The site
is a clearinghouse for thoughtful discussion rather than a locus of
invective. We welcome links, articles, commentary or images from visitors.
While the site provides links to many disturbing images, it does not offer
direct links to the most extreme images. Instead, you'll find text
references that require deliberate searching. Each of us must determine
for ourselves which images we want resident in our heads, and to what
purpose. We do not believe that everyone needs to see the most extreme
images in order to understand the horror of war. On the other hand, we are
convinced that citizenship is best served when all images are available,
since often to witness is to be transformed.

Monday, August 30, 2004 at 11:28 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Pure War


via Pynchonoid:


The Perpetual War Portfolio is an evenly weighted basket of five stocks
poised to succeed in the age of perpetual war. The stocks were selected on
the basis of popular product lines, strong political connections and
lobbying efforts, and paid-for access to key Congressional
decision-makers.

Hosted by The Rational Enquirer.

Monday, August 30, 2004 at 11:15 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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NYC RNC Protest: Pics from the Blogosphere


[photo via Rion]

While some of the networks cited 100,000 marchers in NYC yesterday, NPR
cited from 400,000 to 500,000 which seems more like it. Here are more
blogs and photoblogs documenting the days events:


Rion: New Yorkers Take Over NYC To Protest Bush + The RNC

Glowlab: Sunday, August 29, 2004 . NYC

More from Tom Moody: Aug 30

Eric Wagner/Basetree: August 29, 2004 - New York and America Say No to
Bush

bloggy: August 29, 2004: Anti-GOP March photos

James Wagner: Anti-GOP March - August 29, 2004

Cryptome: Aug 29, 2004 [large files] joined the Republican National
Convention protest march and toured the area around Madison Square Garden
today about 1-3 PM, taking these photos.

The Daily Glyph: Protest Clips (via BoingBoing)

Angry Finger: Pictures from the RNC Protest March in NYC

Meccapixel: UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE PROTEST

ReasonOnline: Code Pink at Central Park

Kottke.org: Darn good liar

Monday, August 30, 2004 at 10:12 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Sunday, August 29, 2004
Armies of the Night ( part III): RNC Protests


NEWSgrist covered the march going in both directions and was present when
the Green Dragon float was set ablaze at Herald Square [pics of cops on
rearing horses to come]. In the meantime check out the pics of the blazing
dragon at Indymedia.

Otherwise it was extraordinarily orderly and peaceful; an amazing feeling
of good will and firmly focused outrage as thousands converged on Madison
Square Garden.

Here's a sampling from the blogosphere and news sites covering the
protests:

via Gothamist:
Photobloggers Against Bush (Day 0)
Photobloggers are Gothamist's eyes on the street- so for the next four
days, we're going to feature a wrapup of all the RNC photoblog posts we
can find. If you want to send us a link, leave it in the comments or email
Jake. Today's amazing photography from the march: Joe Holmes, Citying,
more Citying, Erin's pix at fshk, and Buzznet's NoRNC. Good shots of the
dragon burning at IndyMedia. More to come!


Gothamist: Big Protest Moves Through Manhattan


The Weather Report: Resisting the RNC by Anya Kamenetz (Village Voice
Blog)

NYTimes: Marchers Denounce Bush as They Pass G.O.P. Convention Hall, By
CHRISTINE HAUSER

vidiot.typepad.com > RNC 2004 photoblog

Tom Moody 8-29-2004 5:09 pm: protest pics

The New Standard: RNC Protest Correspondents' Blog: Simply Massive!

C-Span Protest Video Feeds [via BoingBoing]

Presidential Elections - AP: Tens of Thousands Protest Bush in NYC

Amazing AP photos of the protest…and more.

Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 07:50 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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