THE PERFECT EXISTENTIAL CODA
June 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Just before we left, Lester took us down into the basement of his house, to look through his stack of discarded promo albums, and told me to take anything I wanted. I selected three different Move LP's, among other castoffs, but when I showed him the recent Dana Gillespie album, he waved his hand and made a face -- I left that one there. Then Lester gave me a copy of Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power album as a parting gift -- he said he'd had Columbia send him 25 of them when it came out, as he wanted to spread around his belief in the set. We … [Read more...]
THIS IS NOT A COFFEE TABLE…
June 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Somewhere between Duchamp's Mona Lisa and Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece," the worth and import of a modern artist began forming behind the question "Is this artist pulling our leg?" Jeff Koons, now ensconsed, starts a lot of the answer like his forebears, with a big Yes, and then... Ingrid Sischy's essay Alexandra A. Seno in Newsweek … [Read more...]
