That's exactly what I want to see. I've been fortunate enough to see the big works in the Gugg show at the Hermitage, but I have to see them again.
I'd say my favorite Townes is High, Low, and In-Between; it has more of my favorite Townes songs. But Abnormal is awesome and is a more coherent album.
The Russia! show is really excellent, not being an art critic or having seen it that recently I'm somewhat at a loss to describe it using more better words.
Oh, and a lot of the work is from the Tretyakov gallery, not the Hermitage, since the Hermitage in large part featured collections of art work by non-Russian artists.
Yeah, the Russia[!] show is on my list and I'd better suck it up and go because it's closing soon. I'm just annoyed with the Guggenheim so I haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet. It seems like they've done a really bad job installing their exhibits lately and the museum ends up feeling much more crowded than it really is. I left the Aztec exhibit wanting to smack people.
11, no doubt. The signature pieces (Repin, Vrubel, Malevich) are from the Hermitage; I'm guessing that everything else is from either State or Tretyakov.
Did you know that Putin is more or less paying for the whole thing?
Really, if I can channel one message to the people who run art galleries and museums, it would be to plead with them to think about how things will flow and whether people will be able to read the descriptions and enjoy the art when their space is at capacity, not just when attendance is sparse. The Gugg has a tendency to set things up where the crowd looking at item A is standing right in the path of the person looking at item B. The Met's costume gallery, which always puts their plaques on the floor, is the worst offender.
Then again, I'm the same person who complained about Twombly's carpet, so you can feel free to disregard this as me talking out of my ass.
I missed the last 50 years of the Russia!!!1! exhibit becuase the Goog has the temerity to close so early on Sundays... so get there early. but so worth it, especially if -like me- you known "nichivo" about Russia.
I second the recommendation for listening to High, Low, and In-Between / Late Great as well as his live albums.
His early recordings are fun. He was very musical and creative and that doesn't always come through in the later recordings.
The emotion and directness of the live albums are amazing but I don't always know what to make of them. On The Highway Kind, for example, the first two songs are two of my all time favorites but the version of Darcy Farrow always bothers me. The emotion on the latter seems so out of proportion to the song.
If 27 is a question about the actual Guggenheim in New York as opposed to a hypothetical art museum under the control of the former head of the FSB (not so hypothetical I guess, see discussion of Russian state run art museums above), it's an unreasonable $15 for students.
Ronnie Van Zandt's grave was desecrated in the year 2000. "How is it possible to desecrate anything related to Lynyrd Skynrd?" you may ask. But amphetamine knows know law. Rogue Doobie or Allmon brothers or cousins are suspected.
It seems like they've done a really bad job installing their exhibits lately
To be fair, it's very hard to install anything in that space (the Ellsworth Kelly retrospective of some years ago being a major exception, but even that was for more overall effect than for individual works.) On the other hand, no, they don't seem to try too hard.
If you miss Russia! at the Gugg, there's still a couple of great reasons to be on Fifth Ave this season: Fra Angelico! at the Met and Memling! at the Frick.
The Fra Angelico catalog came into the office this week. I was checking it out, thinking how terrific it looked, and then thought, Damn, they are gonna sell so much merchandising off this show during Christmas season. So jealous.
I think we should all be grateful for Ogged's brilliance. If someone had actually got to comment 1000 on the other thread, jealousy would have torn the Mineshaft apart. (I, for instance, would have lorded it over the rest of you like nobody's business.)
Fantastic! Except that it's not coming to DC. Well, fuck, I was meaning to get up to NYC this month, but not to see a movie.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 11:55 AM
What are you coming up for, Smasher? I could see the Gugg's Russia show being up your alley.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 11:58 AM
Sorry -- I meant "Russia!"
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 11:59 AM
(Which is actually getting good reviews despite the fact that anything requiring an exclamation point in the name should be treated as suspect.)
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:00 PM
Titties!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:01 PM
That's exactly what I want to see. I've been fortunate enough to see the big works in the Gugg show at the Hermitage, but I have to see them again.
I'd say my favorite Townes is High, Low, and In-Between; it has more of my favorite Townes songs. But Abnormal is awesome and is a more coherent album.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:03 PM
6 to 5.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:04 PM
Sure it was.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:05 PM
The Russia! show is really excellent, not being an art critic or having seen it that recently I'm somewhat at a loss to describe it using more better words.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:06 PM
Wait, I thought you meant 6 to 4. Damn.
Ok, I'm leaving.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:07 PM
Oh, and a lot of the work is from the Tretyakov gallery, not the Hermitage, since the Hermitage in large part featured collections of art work by non-Russian artists.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:08 PM
Yeah, the Russia[!] show is on my list and I'd better suck it up and go because it's closing soon. I'm just annoyed with the Guggenheim so I haven't been able to bring myself to do it yet. It seems like they've done a really bad job installing their exhibits lately and the museum ends up feeling much more crowded than it really is. I left the Aztec exhibit wanting to smack people.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:09 PM
Is that Russia! show going to be anywhere else, or just New York. (Am I going to have get into Russia before they go fully authoritarian again?)
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:12 PM
11, no doubt. The signature pieces (Repin, Vrubel, Malevich) are from the Hermitage; I'm guessing that everything else is from either State or Tretyakov.
Did you know that Putin is more or less paying for the whole thing?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:14 PM
Really, if I can channel one message to the people who run art galleries and museums, it would be to plead with them to think about how things will flow and whether people will be able to read the descriptions and enjoy the art when their space is at capacity, not just when attendance is sparse. The Gugg has a tendency to set things up where the crowd looking at item A is standing right in the path of the person looking at item B. The Met's costume gallery, which always puts their plaques on the floor, is the worst offender.
Then again, I'm the same person who complained about Twombly's carpet, so you can feel free to disregard this as me talking out of my ass.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:20 PM
I missed the last 50 years of the Russia!!!1! exhibit becuase the Goog has the temerity to close so early on Sundays... so get there early. but so worth it, especially if -like me- you known "nichivo" about Russia.
Posted by mike d | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:29 PM
Shouldn't someone have used the word "transgressive" by now?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:31 PM
I second the recommendation for listening to High, Low, and In-Between / Late Great as well as his live albums.
His early recordings are fun. He was very musical and creative and that doesn't always come through in the later recordings.
The emotion and directness of the live albums are amazing but I don't always know what to make of them. On The Highway Kind, for example, the first two songs are two of my all time favorites but the version of Darcy Farrow always bothers me. The emotion on the latter seems so out of proportion to the song.
Posted by NickS | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:33 PM
Did you know that Putin is more or less paying for the whole thing?
Do you mean him personally, or the Russian government?
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:35 PM
Pooty-poot himself.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:39 PM
But what's the difference?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:42 PM
L'etat, c'est lui.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:45 PM
anything requiring an exclamation point in the name should be treated as suspect
Nonsense.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:49 PM
Huh, impressive.
Has he finished taking over the oil industry, and now wants to focus his attention on the lucrative art gallery industry?
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:51 PM
Isn't the big thing right now the NGOs?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:53 PM
From oil to oil paintings?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:55 PM
And will the Putinheim have a reasonable (socialized) student entry fee?
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 12:55 PM
If 27 is a question about the actual Guggenheim in New York as opposed to a hypothetical art museum under the control of the former head of the FSB (not so hypothetical I guess, see discussion of Russian state run art museums above), it's an unreasonable $15 for students.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 1:30 PM
Late to the party here, but Van Zandt is awesome.
Posted by bill | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 3:41 PM
Ronnie, Stevie, and Townes Van Zandt walk into a bar.
"*?" asks the bartender.
"*", says Ronnie.
"*", says Stevie.
"*!", says Townes.
"A ham sandwich", says the rabbi.
Thank you.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 4:21 PM
Ronnie Van Zandt's grave was desecrated in the year 2000. "How is it possible to desecrate anything related to Lynyrd Skynrd?" you may ask. But amphetamine knows know law. Rogue Doobie or Allmon brothers or cousins are suspected.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 4:27 PM
"nos know law".
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 4:28 PM
It seems like they've done a really bad job installing their exhibits lately
To be fair, it's very hard to install anything in that space (the Ellsworth Kelly retrospective of some years ago being a major exception, but even that was for more overall effect than for individual works.) On the other hand, no, they don't seem to try too hard.
If you miss Russia! at the Gugg, there's still a couple of great reasons to be on Fifth Ave this season: Fra Angelico! at the Met and Memling! at the Frick.
The Fra Angelico catalog came into the office this week. I was checking it out, thinking how terrific it looked, and then thought, Damn, they are gonna sell so much merchandising off this show during Christmas season. So jealous.
Posted by JL | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 6:19 PM
anything requiring an exclamation point in the name should be treated as suspect
I used to be suspicious of exclamation points too. That was before I found out about Fafblog!.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 6:32 PM
Seven Year Bitch
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:06 PM
1000!
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:06 PM
The Lady & Eve
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:06 PM
She Done Him Right
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:07 PM
Excellent. Ok, ok, it's open again.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:07 PM
Ogged is a vengeful Ogged. But I'm happy to have gotten the last comment on that thread.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:07 PM
I think we should all be grateful for Ogged's brilliance. If someone had actually got to comment 1000 on the other thread, jealousy would have torn the Mineshaft apart. (I, for instance, would have lorded it over the rest of you like nobody's business.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:08 PM
And he pwns me again.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:08 PM
37 is 1000. Congratulations, Ben.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:08 PM
eb wins.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:10 PM
That accords with my calculations, SB. Many thanks.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:10 PM
Oops, eb wins.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:12 PM
Too bad that thread re-opened.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:13 PM
For Wolfson, that is.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:15 PM
48 just proves my point in 41.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:26 PM
This is like showing up at a party around midnight, sober.
Fun was obviously had by all.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12- 2-05 8:42 PM