At the end of the day
Just when you thought the Campello-Capps feud was over and it was safe to go back to the pages of this blog and the City Paper's...
Awright... I'm being melodramatic; the battle of words between Capps and I is almost over, but not before you read this in the WCP. You see, the City Paper has done something unprecedented: they have allowed me to re-write Capps' story so that it is a bit more fair without eliminating Capps' fears about anonymous contributors to the book and other neurotic issues.
So go on and read the piece and if you want to leave a comment there, then try your best to keep them civil and constructive. I know that both Kriston and I do not bruise easily and we can both take constructive criticism and disagreement and hopefully we will all come out of this having learned something positive.
Putting together this first volume was an immense amount of work, and yet I am looking forward to the next couple of volumes and will apply the “lessons learned” from this first volume to all the others.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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I vote for a Lenny VS Kriston mud wrestling match...with proceeds going to an art charity
I'd rather have a beer drinking match... last time I had a mud wrestling match she whipped my butt.
OK...fine...but there needs to be something festive to overwhelm the negative vibes
perhaps Jell-O wrestling - mud throwing isn't necessary at this point
i think by focusing the promotion from the start on the list, the names, without any side roads into the substance of the work of the artists you have entered sort of a turnpike. In the absence of an existing discourse about the work done in Washington, other than in a small inside the artscene group perhaps, all the ways to break boredom and perk new interest as you move along the pike seems to have to derive from who's in, who's not, and by what hair raising intrigue or scheme. The longer this goes on, the more the work of these artists gets pushed from view in exchange for perceived webs of s/he is connected to and s/he is making money off and s/he is only in here because of.
i realize that in a community where the art scene is vibrant but the larger discourse past the makers and the profiteers of art is thin, it is difficult or might seem redundant to steer the discussion into positions artists are taking with their work, since presumably we all know each others work...but maybe one way to try with the next book could be to have each of the hundred artists pinpoint one question they are asking with their work. So you have 100 artists and 100 questions.
very interesting ideas...having artists discuss their work is great
why not get something interactive going online so people can ask questions of the artists?...a companion website for the book could do that
How about a fight in sumo wrestler outfits?!?! after getting completely plastered... that sounds good :-)
Other than a drinking contest, none of these would be fair to Kristin. Lenny is some kind of a black belt or martial arts expert as he sometimes has discussed in his blog. I think some kind of a panel to discuss all of this in the context of the DC art scene would be a great idea. Like a follow up to the Skyline Hotel thing that Kristin did before because of the Mera Rubell comments.
Hey what are you guys doing Nov 20????
I'm running a show called the "Blue Moon Festival" that focuses on art you only see "once in a blue moon"...it opens Nov 20 ( Nov 21 is an actual Blue Moon ) and a battle of the titans of the art world would be serious fun -- and something you don't see too often.
maybe a wet T-shirt contest?
a combined drinking contest & spelling bee???
arm-wrestling in jello?
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