Monday, February 3, 2014

Artists Gather for a Spoken-Word Tribute to the Diabolical Wit and Wisdom of John Baldessari

The book includes whimsical lists, art proposals, ramblings, letters, artist statements and iconoclastic text works like "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art". The artists read the pieces in their own style - Rachel Lord sang "The Renoir Story" to the tune of Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball", while the choreographer Simone Forti interpreted "I Am Making Art" as modern dance. WhereThe Democracy Forum at the Japanese American National Museum, next door to the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary building in Little Tokyo, where the lively L.A. Art Book Fair was put on by the New York bookseller Printed Matter. WhenThe reading, on a Sunday evening, served as a wrap-up to a Los Angeles art weekend that included the Book Fair, the Art Contemporary Los Angeles fair in Santa Monica and the Paramount Ranch fair on an old western film set in Agoura Hills.
Source: NEW YORK TIMES


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