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Proverb:
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
The Art of the Deal: The Movie is funny, and it’s scary, and it’s well-made. www.google.com/…
What does it mean to own artwork when for some, its worth is only in terms of its material costs much like reducing a human’s value to their constituent matter which at present is $3.50.
For those making artwork, what happens when custodial ownership is transferred by the artist to an agent like the gallery owner, and then commodified and sold at a price to a collector. Should royalties be available when the artwork is resold, inherited, or insured for damage.
Disowning one’s artwork can be about reclaiming authorship: will the gallery owner return the commission and what about royalties. And owning or collecting objects for some like deals themselves can be claimed as having an “art” to them, even if they’re ghost-written rather than plagiarized.
Richard Prince Just Showed Artists a Way to Fight Trump. And May Have Cracked Open a New Contemporary Art Code Too.In the weeks before the election, it’s important to note, it had come to light that the Kushner-Trumps are collectors of contemporary art — surely this had been known by some in the art world before, but in the fever of the election the fact spread like a scandal. In their collection are artists like Prince, Joe Bradley, Christopher Wool, Nate Lowman, Alex Da Corte, Alex Israel, Dan Colen, and many other very famous artists. I don’t blame artists for who owns their work. But on Wednesday Prince took an unusual step against his own collectors, in this case Jared and Ivanka, who’d bought the Instagram portrait. In his tweet he flatly asserted, “This is not my work. I did not make it. I deny. I denounce. This fake art.” He later emailed me that he returned the $35,000 that had been paid for the picture and wrote, “I’ve disowned the work. The work is no longer mine.” I loved it…
more interesting are the anti-Semitic tweets that the @Dear_Ivanka folks have incited in response demanding boycotts of anti-Ivanka artists — weird how anti-Semites support The Donald but attack Jews, not realizing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are Jewish… next step, an association of conservative artists, whatever that means
Prince’s act of disownership opens up an incredible window of resistance to artists, and, immediately on social media, he found himself explaining. “Redacting Ivanka’s portrait was an honest choice between right and wrong. Right is art. Wrong is no art. The Trumps are no art,” he wrote. “Not a prank. It was sold to IvankaTrump & I was paid 36k on 11/14/2014. The money has been returned. SheNowOwnsAfake.” Then: “Make Trump small again.” And finally: “This should not B confused with aesthetics. This is not a gesture. This is an action. Something I have control over. A yesOrNo.” .
Not a prank. It was sold to IvankaTrump & I was paid 36k on 11/14/2014. The money has been returned. SheNowOwnsAfake. pic.twitter.com/zR2S6jZBA7
Ivanka Trump’s apartment, which stars in many of her 2,781 Instagram posts, seems to telegraph contemporary good taste… The overall aesthetic is that of low-key affluence, the likes of which is found in hundreds of upscale hotels around the globe.The art in Trump’s apartment is a different matter. “I think there are a lot of artists that are uncomfortable now being incorporated, or leveraged, as part of the Ivanka Trump brand.”
More importantly, did Richard Prince’s gallery feel obligated to make its own statement about the “disownership” percentage it took when the artwork was sold. Other artists have been making similar protests about resisting the Trumps’ role in the artworld, by trying to reclaim some connection to their artwork.
According to Bloomberg, the artists, who formed the Halt Action Group, have initiated the “Dear Ivanka” Instagram campaign as a way to protest President-elect Donald Trump through his daughter.
Hoping to “thwart the normalization of what was unfolding in front of our eyes,” Gingeras said, the group, comprised of artists, dealers, psychoanalysts, and even a few collectors, reached out to the artists featured in Trump’s Instagram feed. They asked the artists to join them and ask Ivanka “to answer for some of the hypocrisy she embodies,” Gingeras said.
This Theda Skocpol article is worth adding to the discourse since it addresses the issues most important for the coming resistance to Orange GazBag, a.k.a. Prezident Kozyr.
Mooby the Golden Calf is a fictional children’s television character created by Kevin Smith that is featured throughout the View Askewniverse, most notably in the films Dogma and Clerks II. The anthropomorphic cow, a reference to the Old Testament story of the golden calf that was worshipped as a graven idol, parodies Barney the dinosaur and elements of Disney. Mooby even has his own theme song, a la the “Mickey Mouse Club March,” with lyrics suggesting demands of veneration and worship.[1kevin-smith.wikia.com/…]
Much of the post-election recrimination has focused on the wrong things — on feckless second-guessing and on proposed strategies that range from utopian to counterproductive.
In this piece, I will argue that in our time, the key priority should be strengthening the Democratic Party at state and local levels, even as liberals also build a mass movement to demand universal voter access and devise new formats for unions and other dues-based popular associations…
National media outlets are already speculating about which Democrat is positioning him or herself for 2020, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will grab the spotlight as he tries to protect his caucus’s right flank for 2018 reelection by triangulating among President Trump, House Republicans, and his own vulnerable red-state senators.
But party organs and the party faithful can’t afford to let the worries about 2018 Senate losses or 2020 positioning take up all of the air. Democrats need to organize widely across the country and rebuild their bench of elected officials. Unless Democrats register legislative and state-level gains starting in 2017, they will not succeed in shifting the momentum for 2020.
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) was twenty-six years old when he found his place in the world.
The son of a Presbyterian minister and biblical scholar who took the family on frequent research trips to Europe, young Jeffers attended boarding schools in Germany and Switzerland. His father made sure he got thorough training in classical languages and the Bible. He began his undergraduate studies at Western University of Pennsylvania and finished them at Occidental College in Southern California, where he graduated at the age of 18.
In the fall of 1905, he began graduate school at the University of Southern California with a somewhat vague focus on language study: Spanish, Old English, Oratory and Advanced German. It was in his German class that he met Una Call Kuster, the 21-year-old wife of an ambitious young attorney, who “indulged” her desire to complete her college degree, interrupted when she married him at age 18, as long as it didn’t interfere with the social engagements that helped advance his career.
A brief history of all the strange, sometimes absurd and often contradictory comments Donald Trump has made about the most controversial hacker attack in recent memory:
June 15, 2016: A day after the Washington Post breaks the news that the Democratic National Committee has been hacked, allegedly by Russian spies, Trump’s team issues a statement: “We believe it was the DNC that did the ‘hacking’ as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader.”
News of the hack of the Democratic National Committee first broke in mid-June. That’s when Crowdstrike, a firm that analyzes threats to network security, revealed that the DNC had called it in to inspect the party’s servers, where it found “two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network.” Crowdstrike released a comprehensive report of its findings on June 14, which accompanied a Washington Post article detailing the attacks. One of the hacking groups, Crowdstrike found, had access to the DNC servers for almost a year.
Miss Arizona in 2001, said she was subjected to Trump’s voyeurism.www.google.com/…
One doesn’t need Bebe Rebozo or Berlusconi’s Bunga-Bunga parties to believe that TrUmp is, among many things, an archetypal opto-phallocrat — voyeurism and power gets him off. That and tiny fingers on the Twitter machine.
And we will be glad when he bails because of rising contradictions about conduct unbecoming a POTUS including Nixonian “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
Go back to your real loci of power, Don. Firm-level bankruptcies pale in comparison to national ones especially military ones. We as a nation, will be spared the Hobson’s choice when one of your international properties comes under terrorist attack.
With the BuzzFeed leakiness, Orange Gazbag’s unsuitability and perverse pathology seems even more plausible just as he may perform post-Inaugural humiliations, followed by further failure and bankruptcy, financial or moral. Isn’t that what he did with rMoney and their dinner at Jean Georges in NYC.
Every Cabinet choice whether real or speculative has been in the service of the spectacularly reactionary: Palin to the VA, Tillerson as SoS, Pence as Veep.
And we can be rid of the Donald easily once all the impeachable offenses rise to the level of actionable, but he should take the easy way out, resign to spend more time with his … money.
His earlier 60 Minutes interview revealed Trump’s exit strategy as the CEO of America, that he could leave the Presidency early simply because he was disinterested in it. He implied as much yesterday, saying he could do both: his business and “running the country”. Which will become less deal-worthy? And would a POTUS Pence even pardon him?
Scott Pelley: Millions of people are wondering right now whether you are serious or whether this is a reality show. Yesterday you said, if the presidency doesn’t work out, I’ll go back to my business.
Donald Trump: Well, that’s true.
Scott Pelley: Do you intend —
Donald Trump: I mean, that’s true. I can’t guarantee that —
Scott Pelley: –to be president, or not?
Donald Trump: Totally. But that’s true. I always like to have a downside. I love my business. I didn’t want to do this. I just see our country as going to hell. And I felt I had to do it.
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