{"id":22599,"date":"2014-09-16T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=22599"},"modified":"2014-09-16T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:32:11","slug":"am-i-wrong-porcelain-clay-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2014\/09\/16\/am-i-wrong-porcelain-clay-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"~am I wrong ? nope, porcelain &#038; clay . . rule."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got so spooked by my over-the-top enthusiasm for the SATAN CERAMICS crew, that that night I had a huge bad dream: my next door neighbor was hurling fleshy just dead pigeons . .  into my yard &#038; thus into my head !!<br \/>\nthud, thud, they just kept on coming, the inner body, just behind the thick muscles of those strong pigeon thighs &#8211; was evil-looking, juicy and . . red. otherwise, the evil-omen birds were all black and white.<br \/>\n&#8216;death metal&#8217; black, and scary ghostly white. <\/p>\n<p>but then when I awoke, I caught sight of the new LENA DUNHAM as a classical white statue, on the cover of the NEW YORK TIMES CULTURE MAGAZINE !! and, I knew &#8211; I was right.<br \/>\nLena alookin&#8217; like . . porcelain. damn.<br \/>\nplus note: the background is all . . &#8216;death metal&#8217; BLACK !!<br \/>\nok, so &#8211; it&#8217;s marble they were going after, but still it looked pretty antique MEISSEN porcelain to me. same aesthetic, shiny white surface, voluptuous lines, classical.<\/p>\n<p>and what <em>did<\/em> I tell you &#8211;  you, Satan is a she-demon !!<br \/>\nyeah, Lena Dunham &#8211; that bad \/ that good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lena-dunham-new-york-times-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lena-dunham-new-york-times-.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lena-dunham-new-york-times-\" width=\"593\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lena-dunham-new-york-times-.jpg 593w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lena-dunham-new-york-times--247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLENA DUNHAM, photo-illustration by VICTORIA DIEHEL, modeled after &#8216;Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix&#8217; by ANTONIO CANORA, completed between 1804 &#038; 1808.<\/p>\n<p>read the back story: <a href=\"http:\/\/6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/10\/under-cover-how-we-turned-lena-dunham-into-a-neoclassical-bust\/\">Under Cover:  On Turning Lena Dunham into a neo-classical bust \/ NEW YORK TIMES &#8211; THE 6TH FLOOR<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=http%3A%2F%2F6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F09%2F10%2Funder-cover-how-we-turned-lena-dunham-into-a-neoclassical-bust%2F#?secret=oClb3O9p6a\" data-secret=\"oClb3O9p6a\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>where they also have a super fun video of the behind-the-scenes . .  transformation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/antique-Greek-mixing-bowl-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/antique-Greek-mixing-bowl-.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"antique-Greek-mixing-bowl--\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/antique-Greek-mixing-bowl-.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/antique-Greek-mixing-bowl--300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsee: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/bostons-museum-of-fine-arts-rethinks-its-greek-classics-1410546622\">A Classics Curator&#8217;s Homer Renovation &#8211; Wall Street Journal<\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/bostons-museum-of-fine-arts-rethinks-its-greek-classics-1410546622<\/p>\n<p>then, there was this !!<br \/>\nthe very same weekend, a huge illustration of an antique &#8216;mixing bowl&#8217;, showing the killing of the Greek King Agamemnon, created around 460 BC. an Athenian vase painting. in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>if that wasn&#8217;t a dead ringer for MARY FREY&#8217;S pieces in the SATAN CERAMICS show &#8211; what was it  ?<br \/>\nalso note: the &#8216;death metal&#8217; . . black background.<\/p>\n<p>the image was used to highlight a new configuration of classical treasures at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, incorporating 250 (!!) pieces . . and, this very SATAN CERAMICS piece was chosen out of a most vast &#038; incredible field to stand for hat would attract out attention &#8211; the most.<\/p>\n<p>so there.<\/p>\n<p>SATAN CERAMICS &#8211; rules. it was not just group thrill, it was street smarts as applied to classical ceramics &#8211; the &#8216;scale&#8217; of objects going against the &#8216;functional&#8217; grain, the individual artists&#8217; vision superseding . . form  follows function. it was about fresh raw energy meets dynamic staging, and four authentic artist voices &#8211; are set free.<br \/>\nhand-built clay = inspiration \/ juice &#038; sets the bar, for the art season, fall 2014.<\/p>\n<p>and I <strong>still<\/strong> really like the resonance of the youngest member of the group &#8211; PAT McCARTHY&#8217;s mini concrete cinder block &#8211; which holds down his mini pigeon coop &#8211; coming across as an homage to the group&#8217;s ceramic guru, JJ PEET,  and his miniaturized tiny tea cup &#038; one stem flower vases.<\/p>\n<p>as per above, MARY  FREY &#8211; is right on the cultural dot. <\/p>\n<p>and even TOM SACHS rides in, a hand-built future vision hero, dare I say his NASA branded bowl &#8211; equates with cultural icon Lena Dunham ?<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a bit of a stretch, bite-the-dust metaphor &#8211; BUT, it is there   . . .  if you look for it !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got so spooked by my over-the-top enthusiasm for the SATAN CERAMICS crew, that that night I had a huge bad dream: my next door neighbor was hurling fleshy just dead pigeons . . into my yard &#038; thus into my head !! thud, thud, they just kept on coming, the inner body, just behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22599"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22611,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22599\/revisions\/22611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}