READING-The Medium is the Massage

 

READING 004 - The Andy Warhol Diaries

"Tuesday, June 28, 1977 (...) I haven´t peed on any canvases this week. This is for the Piss paintings. I told Ronnie [Ronnie Cutrone] not to pee when he gets up in the morning- to try to hold it until he gets to the office, because he takes lots of vitamin B so the canvas turns a really pretty color when it´s his piss. (...)"

WATCHING- Painters Painting by Emile de Antonio, 1972

Documentary which focuses on the American art world between 1946-70. Artists such as Robert Rauchenberg, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Jasper Jones speak about their work and the world that revolves around it. Only part of the documentary shown here.- http://www.ubu.com/film/deantonio_painters.html

I have recently found a copy of the book "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970" by Henry Geldzahler in a charity shop. This book is a perfect complement for this doucmentary. In fact Geldzahler (Curator of Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the time) also features in this documentary.

READING 003 (and watching/ listening)

CHANCE
Documents of Contemporary Art
Edited by Margaret Iversen
Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited, London
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2010

La Monte Young, Composition 1960 #10, 1960

CHANCE CONVERSATIONS:

An interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage - Walker Art Centre

READING 002

HIGH ON REBELLION, 

Inside the underground at Max's Kansas City

by Yvonne Sewall- Ruskin

Foreword by Lou Reed. 

"It's really gone now. The laser light that shone from the back room with all its red tables. The chick peas. The bad steak and horrible salad. Warhol, the superstars, the rock groups-to-be and not-to-be. The poets (and almost every-one was thought to be), the painters- in the front of the bar- and, toward the end, the upstairs where entertainment of a more formal nature resided- complete with a booker. The Velvet Underground played its last gasp up there." - Lou Reed 

Pictured : Larry Rivers, Cedar Bar Menu I, 1959.

213 Park Avenue South, New York 10003

READING 001

FOOD- An exhibition by White Columns, New York, curated by Catherine Morris October 3 1999 - February 13 2000, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln, 1999

"On Saturday September 25, to mark the unofficial opening of Food, an artist-run restaurant at 127 Prince Street, free garlic soup, gumbo, chicken stew, wine, beer, and home-made breads were served to friends, gallery-goers and passers-by until late in the evening." - Avalanche, Fall 1971