Pterodactyl Skeleton Photographed By Gail at the AMNH
Q: Why Can’t You Hear When a Pterodactyl Uses The Bathroom?
A: Because the P is Silent.
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Tuesday Humor: It’s All About Priorities
Photographed By Gail at Mary Boone Gallery, 24th Street, Chelsea Gallery District)
“I understand your husband drowned and left you two million dollars. Can you imagine, two million dollars, and he couldn’t even read or write.”
“Yeah,” she said, “and he couldn’t swim, either.”
Richard Prince – Couldn’t Read, Couldn’t Write, Couldn’t Swim, 1989
2014’s First Art Joke: Jim Joe’s January 2014 at The Hole
A Glass of Water and A Lottery Ticket are Examples of Jim Joe’s “Art,” at the Hole (All Photos By Gail)
Jim Joe (real name and identity unknown) is a NYC tagger/street artist who writes his name, and an occasional saying, on buildings around the various NYC boroughs and, The Hole Gallery would have us believe, apparently wants to be taken seriously as an artist. OK, whatever. I like to keep an open mind about what constitutes “Art” in a contemporary sense, but this exhibit takes even the James Franco School of The Emperors New Clothes Phenomena to a new level of bullshit.
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Marc Dennis: An Artist, A Curator and a Rabbi Walk Into a Bar…
All Photos By Gail
It’s not every day that you walk by an art exhibit whose title is the front end of a Meta Joke, and in this case that title is exactly what drew us in to Hasted Kraeutler Gallery for a quick look at Marc Dennis’ latest collection of hyper-realist paintings, playfully entitled An Artist, A Curator and a Rabbi Walk Into a Bar . . . Continue reading Marc Dennis: An Artist, A Curator and a Rabbi Walk Into a Bar…
Video Clip of The Week: The Happinesses “Beautiful Mistake”
In the mid-1990s, when music was an entirely different animal than it is now, there was a fantastic NYC-based power pop quartet, possessed of a wickedly gritty edge, called Thin Lizard Dawn. Thin Lizard Dawn were just about my favorite band in the world for the short time they were together. TLD sounded something like The Beatles meets 10 CC and their self-titled, 1995 debut featured energetic, danceable songs about smoking pot (“Weed”), enthusiastic sex (“Sexual Dynamo”) and how much they thought Oasis sucked (“Sucks). That’s right: they were amazing.
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