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– THE BIG STORY –
Today let’s cede the floor to George Lois, the man behind some of the most brilliant advertising campaigns of the past 50 years (and all those great Esquire covers), with an outtake from my New York Observer profile. Here’s Lois presenting a master class on a scene from the season premiere of Mad Men, his bête noire: “There’s one scene where [Peggy Olsen] is trying to sell an advertisement, and she presents the Heinz baked beans dancing—you know, the worst thing you ever saw. And the clients—who they don’t depict as stupid, even though most clients are—say, ‘That’s crazy! I want a commercial where young people eat beans,’ you know. And then Don Draper walks in and says, ‘Do you like that commercial as much as we do?’ And the client says, no, we want this other thing, and Don Draper says, ‘Ok, we’ll work on that.’ That’s a terrible agency! Someone who never did advertising in his life comes up with the idea, and Don Draper is supposed to be the creative director or whatever he does and he wasn’t even at the presentation? I mean, it’s a farce! Not even a bad agency doesn’t work that way. It’s written by schlemiels, the whole thing.”
– QUOTE OF THE DAY –
“The Chinese art world is exploding. There are hundreds of incredible artists making artworks today in China that are having a big impact on the West. They’re learning from Warhol, but they’re taking it somewhere. There’s a special Chinese sense of humor that’s being injected into it that’s rawer and more confrontational and more down-to-earth somehow. That intrigues me.” – Frank Gehry, whose new high-rise apartment building is opening in Hong Kong, on the Chinese contemporary art scene.
– MUST READ –
Emma Allen Writes About Art for the New Yorker – The funniest young lady in cultural journalism weighs in on the MTV-PS1 video art collab, eliciting a sordid confession from Anne Pasternack (she loves Snooki) and working in a reference to Katy Perry. (New Yorker)
This Is Somewhat Belated – The Josef Stalin museum in Gori, Georgia, which was founded in 1937 to honor the horrifically murderous Soviet dictator has decided to remodel a bit in order to acknowledge the fact that he wasn’t such a great guy after all. (AP)
Jonathan Jones Gets Punchy (Again)! – After his manifesto about kinder, gentler art criticism, the Guardian pundit reverts to form, taking a moment to “laugh with scorn” at the people who don’t like what’s on view at Tate Modern and “pull[ing] rank” on his readers, challenging them “are you sure you care about Michelangelo more than I do?” (Guardian)
Art Reporting in Monaco Is Fancy – Dorothy Spears recalls the time she went to the Riviera principality to write about its contemporary art scene and was taken out to a wine-fueled lunch by Princess Caroline. (NYT)
– ART MARKET –
Power Girls of the LES – Katya Kazakina takes a look at the badass women of the Lower East Side gallery scene—Rachel Uffner, Candice Madey, Lisa Cooley, Nicelle Beauchene, and Laurel Gitlen among them—who are showing a truly disproportionate amount of the best new art in New York. (Bloomberg)
Inside the Cady Noland Lawsuit – The funniest thing about art dealer Marc Jancou‘s whopping $46 million lawsuit against the reclusive artist and Sotheby’s over an artwork that was withdrawn from an auction is exactly how reclusive Noland proved to be when a law firm tried to serve her papers. (Artinfo)
Kinkade Market Gets Death Bump – Sales of the “Painter of Light”‘s artworks have been booming ever since his sudden passing on Friday, so the Washington Post is offering would-be buyers some helpful advice about how to judiciously acquire this shlock. (WaPo)
– IN & OUT –
London’s Olympic Lottery Distributor (bearing the hilarious acronym OLD) has turned down an art project that Olafur Eliasson created for the city’s Olympics festivities, sending him back to the drawing board. (BBC)
Chinati Foundation director Thomas Kellein has resigned from his post at the Donald Judd-founded museum in Marfa, which is now looking for a new director. (Artforum)
A drawing of a “sassy” old chicken won Mama’s Napkin Art Contest in Oakland, California, because it had “attitude, in a good way.” (Mercury News)
