The actress Tilda Swinton has been scheduled to sleep in a glass box at Mew York's Museum of Modern Art throughout the month as a performance called THE MAYBE.
Museum goers enjoy the spectacle of celebrity within arm's length, but the talented Ann Magnuson related her sleeping beauty story at Area in 1983.
"Eric Goode and Sean Hauseman set up a bed in one of their dioramas along the corridor at the entrance. When I heard they were paying someone $100 a night to just sleep there, I said HIRE ME! (I was so broke.) It was a nightmare. Strobe lights going off in the room, you could hear the disco music even earplugs, assholes were pounding on the plexiglass window screaming WAKE UP BITCH! I toughed it out for a few hours then quit. Made Eric pay me the full $100."
$100 was good money back in 1983.
Hell, I'd do it now for the same sum, but who would want to watch me sleep.
HAL WINDSTON the great London Art Spiv said the following about Tilda's slumber, "I don't get the tilda-swinton-sleeping-in-a-box thing at moma, ny. well, I do, but it's depressing. why give away valuable museum real estate to a non-artist? anyway, james franco has that territory well sewn up. wasn't tilda's box (office) a cornelia parker piece from 1996 now being repackaged as a tilda original? can someone please pour in some formaldehyde?
Or Jello.
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Sleeping Beauty
The actress Tilda Swinton has been scheduled to sleep in a glass box at Mew York's Museum of Modern Art throughout the month as a performance called THE MAYBE.
Museum goers enjoy the spectacle of celebrity within arm's length, but the talented Ann Magnuson related her sleeping beauty story at Area in 1983.
"Eric Goode and Sean Hauseman set up a bed in one of their dioramas along the corridor at the entrance. When I heard they were paying someone $100 a night to just sleep there, I said HIRE ME! (I was so broke.) It was a nightmare. Strobe lights going off in the room, you could hear the disco music even earplugs, assholes were pounding on the plexiglass window screaming WAKE UP BITCH! I toughed it out for a few hours then quit. Made Eric pay me the full $100."
$100 was good money back in 1983.
Hell, I'd do it now for the same sum, but who would want to watch me sleep.
HAL WINDSTON the great London Art Spiv said the following about Tilda's slumber, "I don't get the tilda-swinton-sleeping-in-a-box thing at moma, ny. well, I do, but it's depressing. why give away valuable museum real estate to a non-artist? anyway, james franco has that territory well sewn up. wasn't tilda's box (office) a cornelia parker piece from 1996 now being repackaged as a tilda original? can someone please pour in some formaldehyde?
Or Jello.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
No Space For Warhol
Throughout the spring and summer of 1956 New York's Museum of Modern Art featured an exhibition, Recent Drawings USA. Andy Warhol was one of the artists in the group show.
According to the informative http://www.warholstars.org Warhol and his companion Charles Lisanby traveled around the world visiting San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, Djakarta, Bali, Singapore, Bangkok, Angor Wat, Colombo, Calcutta, Katmandu, Benares, New Delhi, Agra, Aurangabad, Cairo, Luxor and Rome before returning to New York.
That autumn he showed new drawings at the ice cream parlor Serendipity 3.
Fame was not yet in his grasp and at the close of the Recent Drawings Show, Alfred H. Barr, the MOMA's advisory director wrote a letter to Warhol asking him to pick up his drawings
And I can't blame Mssr. Barr, there were Warhols before Warhol revealed Warhol to the world.
No one could see what was coming, but a few had a feeling.
Nothing like rejection and nothing better than rejecting it.
ps my first round the world trip was Los Angeles-Biak-Bali-Java-Sumatra-Penang-Koh Samui-Bangkok-Chiang Mai-Kathmandu-Paris.
I wrote a book NORTH NORTH HOLIDAY.
It went nowhere.
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