Few days ago a brief news story by Carol Vogel about an accident involving a woman falling accidentally into “The Actor”(1905), "a rare Rose Period Picasso" and damaging it last Friday at the Metroplitan Museum of Art appeared in the NY Times. It was later followed by a longer piece explaining how the small tear will be dealt with. This somewhat sensational story was of course picked up on twitter and in the general and art news media around the world. Knowing that, I had Dick quickly read the longer story on my iphone and I asked him to tell me about his view on the accident and about his experience with torn canvases. This led us to make a short video below about art restoration. Make sure to also look at the funny, cruel, cynical and pointed comments in this original blog entry on the NYT Artsbeat.
Today a twitter friend tweeted the following "aaaah USA http://bit.ly/7qtS6", link leading to a Guardian story "Model arrested for posing nude at New York museum." Next in the story, "Kathleen Neill charged with public lewdness after posing for a photographer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." I thought Dick would be interested in this story, having himself had some of his nudes taken off the walls of a gallery in NY, in the 70s, if I recall right.
The show of photographs of the above mentioned nude model in public spaces will be closing, in a few days, August 30 at Chair and Maiden in NY.
"aaaah USA http://bit.ly/7qtS6", and I can only add, why in chains right away?
Dick might not be in touch or reading this until later in the week, as I believe he's still disconnected, due to the storm a week ago ripping out some trees near his barn and breaking some telephone poles and wires, which are probably still being fixed. Here is how it looked from the cottage where I was staying last weekend, right after the storm hit. Watch my short clip to the end and listen...
More images coming to my photo set(UPDATE now already there) from the Berkshires trip here.
Check out the "lewd" show if you're in NY before it closes.
Zach Hyman "Decent Exposures" Venue: Chair and the Maiden Schedule: From 2009-08-20 To 2009-08-30 Address: 19 Christopher St., New York, NY 10014 Phone: 212-255-0562 Fax: 212-675-6330
