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June 28, 2006
Great moments in GawkerForum: June
Last month I thought that GawkerForum was sane enough that I couldn't pull out anything particularly hilarious. No such obstacles this month:
Tran Duc Van does Basel. Kind of. This one is too goofy to merely quote, so instead I'll point out some highlights:
- The post swings into form by spending much of its second paragraph complaining about the lack of seating placecards at a dinner.
- Name-drop tally for said paragraph: Six.
- Number of unsupported MoMA-related ass-kisses in the post: I can't count that high.
- Best preposterously pointless MoMA platitude: "[D]isarmingly original thinker."
- Best line in entire post: "I have not given [Tacita] Dean's work the attention it deserves..." (Then how does he know Dean's work deserves attention?)
- Best line not in said post: "I was too busy noticing the lack of placecards at dinner to look at -- let alone think about -- any actual art."
Yet more proof that GawkerForum isn't about art: "[Takashi Murakami's] stock will no doubt rise when all hear that he has left Marianne Boesky to work with Larry Gagosian in New York." A dealer change will make Murakami's art better? Really?!
Don't ask, I can't explain: "Someone remarks that the woods in the vicinity of the Cloisters are a haven for crackheads. 'Does crack make you want to have sex?' Carol inquires. 'No, it just drives you into a bottomless black pit and makes you want to kill yourself,' Hanna answers. Several hours later, and still a considerable distance from our destination, someone remarks that maybe we should have scored some crack for the road; the beers and pretzels we bought at a gas station just aren't giving us much of a lift." -- David Rimanelli.
Also from Rimanelli: We love it when an alleged critic (in this case: cheerleader) goes to write about a show... and bunks at the house of show's curator. And then boasts of playing dress-up in the clothes of the curator's son. Yeah, whatever he writes about that show is just going to be loaded with credibility.
Why do GF writers seem to only go to openings? Then they inevitably complain that they can't see the art. Doh! "Given the crowd, it's rather hard to see Klara's three videos, slideshow projection, and site-specific construction." -- David Rimanelli.
Nicolas Trembley on LISTE: "I couldn't see everything, though, as I had to run to the Swiss Awards ceremony."
"I took in the glam white tents, carpeted poufs to cushion dressed-up derrieres, a dance floor where the art patrons boogied near modern icons by Matisse, Maillol, and Henry Moore, and wondered if there ever had been a bar mitzvah at MoMA? A Modern bar mitzvah with Frank Stella centerpieces, music by Philip Glass, Barbara Kruger invites, a Koons in chopped liver, the whole simcha documented by, say, Tina Barney. Fabulous. If done tastefully, of course." -- Rhonda Lieberman.
Related: April.
Posted June 28, 2006 10:25 AM
