Tagged With "Howl Arts"
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Re: RIP, VIP
Widely publicized and with a NYMag article to come out Holly died last week. She had been my art dealer from 1974-1980. Everything the many NYTimes obits said about her and Grace Gluck's full biography is true. She treated artists like friends, supported many many talents, and went with her gut feelings no matter what the odds. My personal memory which I'll never forget was the crazy summer we drove up to Lake Placid with a stationwagon trunk full of white wine and returned with a...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Holly was a steam roller. She paved the way. She had one of the first galleries in SOHO. When SHE moved downtown EVERYONE moved downtown. Holly started so many people's careers. Too many to mention. She was often the first person to give an artist a break. Most of the household name artists of the 70's, 80's, 90's and beyond got their start somehow with Holly. Holly, subsequently, had one the best art collections in the world. Going to her apt. (57th Street) was like going to the Museum of...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
"Party Monster" seems to hold promise as an interesting film. As someone who witnessed the rise and fall of the club kid movement, I'm very curious to see how they treat the subject matter - how realistic or how white washed? Also given that it's from the same company that brought us Poison, Hedwig & the Angry Inch and Velvet Goldmine, I'm sure it will be dazzling on some level. It's worth seeing for me just because Wilson Cruz (Ricky Vasquez on My So-Called Life - - one of my favorite...
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Re: The Cockettes
Finally got to see that wonderful doc depicting SF and the youth culture of that time, my time. Seeing the first few pics of George Harris sans beard and Hibiscus drag made me gasp out loud and later brought a tear to this old queen's eyes. That was the George I knew, looking a bit (and acting a lot) like Dennis the Menace. To actually see what he told me about--the costumes and performances- rounded out my knowledge of this beautiful soul. I'm so in agreement with his belief in free art and...
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Re: Greer Lankton
i meet greer in a drag bar in chicago called CHEEKS. well i walked up to her and said whats a nice lady like you doing in a place like this.? she was looking like a chanel model. she said in her hamous raspy voice 'i'm one of the gyrl's too'.then we sat and i told her i was a puppet maker and she told me she was a doll maker. and we were together ever since. stich and bitch was what we did every day for almost 9 years .until two weeks before thanksgiving almost 5 years ago now. she was raped...
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Re: Greer Lankton
That's one reason why we started The Downtown Costume Institute. STUPID families from STUPID places throwing out BRILLIANT art made by BRILLIANT people after they died. When Madame died for example, her family came from some god-forsaken American toilet and raped her appartment. They threw out EVERYTHING. Sixty something years of magic gone in an instant! They refused to believe that Madame was gay (and dressed in drag). The Metropolitan Museum begged for those costumes (as did alot of other...
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Re: BURNING MAN
i'm in portland now, but this seemed like the more appropo board to post in. my people are up to some SHIT!! huge art projects, domes, vehicles... oh my damn!! the hottest by far is kelly and his bus - he's adding two flame throwers to the back and putting an underlit stripper stage (complete with a pole!) on the hood. he's major! but straight. he asked us if we wanted to kick in for these projects. i laughed as i thought about the few dollars i have left and said, "well, if you want a...
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Re: Jo-Jo Baby - DollMaker
Which is pretty fitting, considering that Jojo's lively demeanor, colorful appearance and eye-catching art make him one of Chicago's most visual – and visible – personalities. Little known fact: as a child, Jojo wanted to be a priest. A stint at Quigley North Prepatorial Seminary deemed him "too theatrical" for the papacy. That's an understatement (although he did hone his hair sculpting skills for the stage – for artists Cinderella, Judas Priest, UB40, Guns and Roses and others). Jojo's...
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Re: Jo-Jo Baby - DollMaker
We've been 120% impressed and inspired by Jojo and his art since the day we laid eyes on him close to 10 years ago. Which incidentally was the very first night we ever went out clubbing in Chicago. From his dolls, to his drawings, sculptures, installations costumes, character exploration, hair and makeup skills, Whatever Jojo touches becomes beautiful and mystical. So much of his personality is transferred into his art that it is hard to separate the two. Pictures rarely do Jojo's dolls...
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Re: Jo-Jo Baby - DollMaker
Was out last night at a renegade punk bar in Billyburg (i.e. Williamsburg, the Brooklyn art mecca) tossing back stale beer / listening to Sepulatura with a newly migrated New Yorker who came to us via London from Chicago. Indeed, I am growing quite fond of this witty, brazen and beautiful girl who aspires to wrestle more than anything in the world. We were talking of the windy city and I mentioned you had joined the ArtMaker forum. And such a smile came across her face as she told me how...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
when I saw you last at Jackie 60, but I was too shy to approach ... my boyfriend, ever the art and underground enthusiast, is a great fan of the art and writings of David Wojnarowicz and has been completely blown away by "Seven Miles a Second". In reading Mr. Wojnarowicz's bio to me, the band name 3 Teens Kill 4, kept sticking out in my head. It occurred to me at Jackie where I knew it from, are you not one of the founding members of that band? Perhaps next time we see you out, or somewhere...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
In such a short span David W. did more for breakthrough art and Aids politics than most of us could hope for in a lifetime. One of the few art shows I've ever attended and gone away intoxicated with the creativity of the work. There's not much more astounding then seeing work you may have dreamt of or intended to create and then brought to reality by a fanatic obsessed. My initial reaction was, damn he beat me to it and then realized, oh great, now I don't have to do it because much of it...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Indeed, I have been thinking about this topic all week, as I too would like to see more in it (and, more of it's ilk). What I have managed to obtain from D. is a copy of the program from David's show a few years back at the above-mentioned museum in SoHo. It is about 10-pages, so I need to get text-scanning software installed). D. also has the above graphic art book mentioned, but I need to look into reprinting rights. Generally, it's pretty easy to get permission to reprint an artist's work...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
---Or, Daddy-D. & Hatches, "We tell ourselves stories to keep ourselves alive," says Joan Didion, as quoted in an intro to a "quasi-fiction" American queer "best of" anthology featuring the work of David Wojnarowicz ... by Brian Bouldrey ---Goblin, for thee I have done mass research and have compiled a "DW" file of information for this topic some 40 pages in length ... It is too much for any one person to take in one night. So I will be adding links to names and places throughout this...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
from TonyaKnudsen: I have moved this "episode" of "How Dreambot came to ArtMaker" from David W. to that one. [This message was edited by TonyaKnudsen on 09-21-02 at 06:45 PM.]
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Daddy-D: I promise not to dreg up emotions too often. And someday, you and Chi Chi will have to let me write a bit about your early exploits. This is something I look forward to. You know, one of the first conversations I had with Rose, maybe about four years ago, was about whether or not I could come in to Mother early one night just to interview her. She seemed to me to have stories untold of amazing interest (however since there was no place to publish such tales) I did not pursue the...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Hatches -- It was impressive to meet you, such a stately figure of consequence with a wise, yet subdued kindness. I hope you like the Jackie 60 Fashion Forward shwag, I apologize for the interruption in your stage performance last night (that was not my doing, ahem, Daddy - I much prefer being on the dance floor!) ------------- As I continue to delve into NYC in the 80s, I find more and more information about DWs work and the artists he collaborated with. Just when I thought I had a...
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Re: RIP, VIP
hattie, did you know larry rivers? he lived around the corner from us in southampton. he has great art in his garden, i hope someone will light the huge legs this christmas. just legs and crotch!
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Re: The Club Creatures - Zazoo & Satori
but my brother jay-jay and i have a gig.....we are the hilton sisters for halloween. and i will be doing a instalation for the club WHITE STAR. and performing with my bro and judging a costume contest...but back too my buddies zazoo and satori this is an art forum .....and you should see what they can do with a tupper wear bowl and action figures. It all good... i love their looks.... we go shoping sometimes when the are in chicago and we make fun of each other and what outfits we can make...
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Re: Flloyd the Ripper
Tremendous bravos and bravas to Flloyd and compatriots for this important addition to the Jack The Ripper oeuvre, displaying a true understanding of Jack so missing from other efforts. SO MANY great performances, and so many by dear friends, but here's a few that stood out for moi- No small parts for these ENORMOUS actors: Herr Klunch and Clark Render, in the same scene. Antony. Absolute Blacklips: Johanna Constantine, Lost Forever, Sissy Fitt Scenestealers: Kitty Boots and Hattie Hathaway...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Next to Quentin Crisp, one of my favorite New Yorkers was an uptown girl whom I belatedly learned passed on. I was visitng the NYTimes obit section for the first time in many months and discovered Daphne Helman, had passed away this summer very close to if not on Warhol's birthday.) She was listed as a name on the bottom of the page but the link wasn't working. Later that day I was on the Motherboards in the Versailles section and was reminded of the RIP VIP which I've also avoided far too...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
I have many great things I wish to accomplish today (as every day). But I wanted to share my copy of Pandora with Mother's Rice Queens -- especially in timing with this coming event. This book means a great deal to me. In addition to it's amazing beauty, the purchase of it taught me one of the most valuable lessons in my life with regards to appreciating the quality of my life. Like most actually, I grew up quite poor. The year before I went to college (1989), my mother made $2000 for the...
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Re: Pittsburgh
I agree it really is one impressive avatar. It amazed me when I first saw it. I was so glad to see it. It's far more appropriate than stock art. Quite begiling, a shout out to it's creator! Is it you Betty? I have to admit, I don't know you very well. We'll have to work on that. If so, you should really be proud. Look at the hour! Tick Tock, I've got a ball to get too ... Oh and those mint/chocolate chip cupcakes 2 Die 4! Love the Picasso on Google today, the Fly on MSN, and the Clive Barker...
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Re: Pittsburgh
Have been several times to Pittsburgh when Johnny has DJed at the Warhol Museum. Always really enjoyed it - definately one of those up-and-coming cities where the bohemian lifestyle seems still possible. Had a great experience the last time we went - think it was 1998 or thereabouts. At the big Warhol fiesta at the museum Blacklips/Jackie Legend Sissy Fitt was there in detourned Liza Minelli drag (fab!) We had a blast, and he introduced me to many local lights. One rather unassuming guy he...
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Re: Straight To Hell (Sex Stories)
I guess almost everything revolves around sex, and well, money too, but that's another forum entry all together. I leisurely mouse-clicked into a Maui gay chat room tonight on the World Wide Web, barefoot, topless, holding my java in my hand, wearing nothing more than a pair of tight faded Levi's with a paint stain on the crotch and a rip in the left knee. I'm not one for online chat programs really. ICQ and Yahoo Messenger sit tranquil upon my desktop collecting Internet dust and most of my...
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Re: Join us at Hooker's Ball 4 New Year's Eve
SLC punk has nothing on Siouxicide City Iowa (also known as Sewer City). Last night had great run in with a punk legend in these parts as well as others, long-lost cracker of my ribs in high school in the mosh pit, Pete Phillips, who actually was playing at CBGBs around the time of the Hookerball 2. Apparantly, the Jackie crowd left quite an impression on him. And this is no small feat! Saw four amazing acts last night, and forgot just how talented these kids are out here. white soul I think...
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Re: 57 Varieties ( Club 57 Remembered)
That was the best Club 57! I did one of my very first "performance art pieces" there. I was in art school (School of Visual Arts) at the time. I hooked up two big BORROWED tv sets to all of this electronic equipment that Laurie Anderson loaned me (God bless her). It was all choreographed to a disco drum beat with this drummer guy that I met in the park. He now has gone on to drum with hundreds of DJs in hundreds of clubs but believe me, that was the first time. He really didn't understand my...
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Re: Join us at Hooker's Ball 4 New Year's Eve
You guys looked really good, too good for Donatella, I hope it was for us sweetie. Jackie Bigalow's hair rocks. I also have to comment on how fierce Tonya's Peep show was. GORGEOUS! If I didn't know better I would say it was art.
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Re: Join us at Hooker's Ball 4 New Year's Eve
Many thanks to Chi and Johnny for having my "art" ;-) Additional thanks to the staff at CBGBs -- and to Haseena Napier and D. -- for manning and man-handling my craftmanship. Miss Maki you must have been tipsy as I swear you did not ruin a thing ... About those playboys, I think D. has more to say on that ... Now I must return to bed, I've been having an on again/off again relationship with the flu that i've just about kicked to the curb, but shall be taking it easy for the next week or two...
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Re: Beams To Bobby Part 2
Not so far off - Bobby Big Beams and Daddy -- I saw that CD actually quite recently myself in the odd hours ... although the CD was in the traditional album racks no? I caught it with more of a Deb vibe i.e. FKing in the USA -- oh Wells ... Bobby, was so incredibly happy to read your fiesty personality coming back through on the boards -- genually the first sign of Spring I've seen. And I do believe the true darkness has been passed (about 4am, not last night but the night before). And...
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Re: Mondo Internet (Part 2)
Will you kindly remove that picture of me before i sue. Those picture of 'us' were art.... how dare you use them like this...
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Re: Mondo Internet (Part 2)
http://newyork.craigslist.org/nyc/bar/7980092.html Sounds kind of sketchy--but for a free wig? I'd do it! Yet another reason to wish I was a lady. *** Free Wig For Female Reply to: anon-7980092@craigslist.org Date: Wed Jan 15 14:47:58 2003 I will provide a free wig to a female with a relatively good figure who will agree to have her head shaved, then pose for experimental art photos. ***
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Re: AB FAB
Is that quote right ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Postmodern is not like it's preceding art eras, think of it in terms of Renaissance. We may well be Postmodern for the next 325 years, and it will be different every month as new media and technology emerge and redefine art and the economy of art as well as in tandom with redefined/ing social "cast/class" levels. Take a gander at some of the books I shall continue to be tossing Chi Chi's...
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Re: AB FAB
Tonya, Don't you get it? That quote is Post Modern Art! (Don't make me have to come out to Brooklyn and explain it to you 'cause I will! ) Read it again. No, first smoke a joint then read it again. It's brilliant sweetie. It's art. It is fabulous.
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Re: AB FAB
A little I seem to get that feisty-testosterone driven feeling occasionally. (Probably because the original old man was such a nut, the witty-est one-liners, only came out when he would get rearry bitchy!) perhaps I should tool around the ab fab sites, seems something is beckoning my attention somewhere between the Post Modern art and the Virtual Ab Fab worlds. [[I think packing is getting to me ... to throw it out or not is becoming an uncomprehendable labyrinth of boxes filled to the...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
My education really went as far as 8th grade- I never made passed the first year of high school, got my G.E.D. later and went to a few semesters of college- left that as well, and everyone thought I was crazy when I received a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago,and said "fuck it- I don't want to go" and it was not because I think there is nothing more for me learn, they just were not teaching the things that I was/ am interested in- (even if I didn't know what it was I wanted...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Hattie, in April 2002 there was a film festival on DW in the UK, http://www.outuk.com/cgi-bin/llgff/filmdetail.pl?link_ref=81 it seems to me that an exhaustive amount of research was put into getting all these works together for this show, which would entail contacting anyone who might know something about your missing film. I truly believe it is out there for the finding. My gut feeling is that if you were to contact the person who did the research for this show, explain to them who you are...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
I just re-read this entire topic. It's amazing, so much information. Tonya, you are insane... God bless you! And Doug, You're a little mistaken... and going to catch hell from ME! well, that's a whole lot to explain but Warhol & Basquiat are major. Just look at the world around you. Turn on the TV (and don't say "I don't watch TV") It's a Warhol! You may not like it but it's there. And Basquiat's paintings are more beautiful than ever. But this is about D.W. Here is "Hattie as Rimbaud",...
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Re: AB FAB
No he's not an actor! HE JUST GOT LUCKY!!!!!! (and yes, I'm bitter). OK, he's a very talented graphic designer, art director, video artist, well OK, artist in general. I'll give him that. But basically he's just a big Ham! A few years ago at Jackie 60 we cast him as Kurt Cobain in a Jackie's Playhouse production. He surprised the world with his dancing ability and his basic hambone personality. OK, he brought down the house but that's neither here nor there. Until then nobody thought of Rob...
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Re: Please help us rename this Forum
not for nuthin- but whoever thought of The Club Chronicles is a genius. Stephen- I got your email and am going to an art opening in your neck of the woods in early March and will send you the info soon.a
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Re: The Palladium
OK the Palladium, before it became a glitz pallace it did have some great rock shows. Like Nick Lowe or The Plasmatics One night Wendy O blasted the hood off a White Caddy and almost took out the people in the first five rows when it landed in "way" the wrong place. It being punk times they loved it and screamed for more. Needless to say Wendy never quite topped that moment. Wendy did come back and do the buzz saw act in the Mike Todd room but it was just not the same. She did shock some of...
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Re: The Palladium
I remember the Palladium having alot of great art. I can't remember when but they had this big Keith Haring backdrop and some other art on the back wall. One time this guy in silver body paint was sitting against this painting and when he left there were silver hand prints all over it. I also remember the Love Machine tuesday night party, I think this was after the union square place closed. They had a room downstairs right next to the men's bathroom that I remember being in one night, small...
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Re: RIP, VIP
Never got to know this fella but he sounds like my kind of wheeler dealer: (***nytimes pay per view link removed 5/23/03) Colin de Land, a New York art dealer whose ambivalence about commercialism was reflected in an art gallery that sometimes resembled an anti-art gallery, if not a work of Conceptual Art, died on Sunday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital. He was 47. The cause was cancer, said Dennis Balk, an artist represented by Mr. de Land's gallery, American Fine Arts. With little...
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Re: RIP, VIP
From IndieWire: "Stan Brakhage, widely considered the most important avant-garde filmmaker, has died. Brakhage made nearly 400 films during his life, starting at age 19. His works, experimental in their form, range from a few seconds to a few hours. Brakhage was also a film professor, author, and lecturer. He died on Sunday (March 8) at age 70 in Victoria, British Columbia after a battle with cancer." I often sat in on Stan's lectures on film and film history at the Art Institute of Chicago...
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Re: Martine? Donde estas?
Good question. Where is Martin? I heard that he is a very successful Art Director somewhere. Anyone know?
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Re: Trip and Go Naked
Scotty the Blue Bunny was reminding me last night of the time Otter had scheduled a midget to hide beneath her hoop skirt and fist her vagina on stage. Well, the midget did not show up, so the enterprising Otter went out to a squat on Avenue C (in hoop skirt) and got a little squatter boy to complete the act. Very high art.
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Re: Jo-Jo Baby - DollMaker
i am working very hard on things here.....and my building on top of it all asked me to move galleries so that they could ripe the roof off . they say the i-beems in the roof look like swiss chesse and i quess i dont want my gallery to eat me one day so ....i moved.....but i got a bigger space....just in time to make art
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Re: Michael Moore
I have to admit he has iron balls! I love the fact that he can get up there and say anything because he's this fat sloppy guy who has no need for Hollywood and it's system. He's not an actor up there trying to get his next big role. He can be annoyingly confrontational but that is his style. Look at Pedro Almodavar; he basically said the same thing but more poetic, like his art. Michael Moore is to the point and blunt, like his art. But thank god someone is balancing out the scales. We need...
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Re: Michael Moore
I initially felt that Moore's film would strike a blow against documentaries as an art form, but it's possible that it is only an example of opinionated, selective documentary filmmaking gone a few steps too far. I argued with my friend that there's a difference between selective presentation of true facts and outright lies, but he wasn't having it. He gets kind of obstinate whenever people disagree with him. He said I can't comment until I see the film. I say that's bullshit, since I only...
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Re: ARCADIA! Opening Night Gala May 30 at CBGB Gallery
Top Ten Reasons to Love Arcadia! 1) Arcadia reminds me of Acadians, and Penny Arcade, and Atlantis, and other A-words.. 2) Zazoo, Satori, Jo-Jo Baby and Gigi Deluxe are coming to town for a whole week! 3) I am getting my darling husband into a costume, finally - and its NOT his J.C. Vampire cape... We are performing together as The Emperor and The Empress - TOO much fun! 4) A whole new generation is discovering the work of the late great Art L'Hommedieu, whose Blacklips tarot images grace...