\nHave a show with some titties in it and he will write a review.
\nHave a nice ass and he will write a good review.”<\/p>\n
“Also ‘Rob’ has only been there since 2010\/11 . . . if the art world is so fast that we should have the next hottest artist in 5 years . . then NO thank you !!!!!!”<\/p>\n
artlovers: why the hell, not ? have the art world be so fast. <\/p>\n
and YES, the art world can be<\/strong> that fast !! like within 1 year of getting that hard-won Greenpoint apt, or that postage stamp-sized Bushwick studio. if not just so that you can pay rent, but so that you can actually eat, too.<\/p>\n and, further . . tell me it isn’t so. bring on the Greenpoint – Yalie shipping containers !! now, that’s a well-done solution, D.I.Y !! anyway, I heard on the grapevine, that “ROB STORR is an incredible<\/strong> educator who is not doing the Columbia<\/strong> (!!!!) thing – which is to be hip and fashionable.”<\/p>\n artlovers: Rirkrit Tiravanija . . . are you gonna take that – lying down ?<\/p>\n the composite newbie: “I am biased, but I went to YALE because I don’t<\/strong> care about the SALTZ’S in the world. I don’t care about the VITO SCHNABEL’S. I make work. I make ideas, and I really believe that most of my classmates in the graduate program feel the same. STOP – RIGHT THERE. NYC CRITICS – LOVE THEIR LOBSTER. <\/strong><\/p>\n artlovers: well friggin no wonder BOCHNER\/HALLEY got so many students into galleries here, everybody knows that’s the way into the critics’ inner circle here – give ’em a lobster dinner. if SIMON<\/strong>, SIMON CERIGO, RIP was still around, he’d be chirping in right now, like a little song bird !!<\/p>\n ghost of SIMON CERIGO: private, LOBSTER dinners, bring ’em on !! artlovers: SIMON . . . if truth be told, adored<\/strong> and worshiped at the altar of ROBERTA !! Roberta and he always greeted each year, esp as the years grew into decades, with many a casual pleasantry, and much<\/strong> info exchange, on Simon’s part. Robert a was more tight-lipped, being the paid professional. in fact, whenever she stopped to converse with him, no matter how briefly, he would rush home to report it like a grade A report card. then he would call CHARLIE FINCH to make the requisite nightly report – his encounter with Roberta headlining the night’s events. <\/p>\n back to Zwirner. for sure Simon jump-started the tidal wave craze for . . . THOMAS RUFF<\/strong>. but he also totally loved THOMAS RUFF’S blurry landscape photos<\/a> and, the crazy abstract ‘Substrat Series’<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n as for Roberta ? <\/strong>
\nin fact, that’s when it is at its best. other-wise it can be pretty banal for all that anybody else claims,
\nand not only DO YOU<\/strong> KNOW YOU IT, you being all<\/strong> the new wave of up and comers, not just the Yalies, who are a strong contingent this year in particular, but YOU<\/strong> WANT TO BE<\/strong> – . . THAT HOT artist, rising to the top, really really fast, really really badly !! <\/p>\n
\nfor any newbie who hasn’t scored a gallery, no matter how shaky, within 6 months of getting here, depression lurks around every corner, every new Facebook friend’s event, is a crisis.
\nit’s a veritable musical chairs, egged on by social media !!<\/p>\n
\nolordy, I can just imagine it, the competing newbie pop-up shipping container – wars !! <\/p>\n
\nalso, YALE gives incredible FINANCIAL AID and scholarship – much more than most other schools. I would never have been able to study there if ROB had not restructured the program from the BOCHNER\/HALLEY days – they used to have LOBSTER DINNERS.” <\/p>\n
\nkey to many a success.
\nback in the day, when MIAMI BASEL was just baby stepping it, they threw huge LOBSTER-LOADED BUFFETS here in NYC – to get the NYC collectors on board. I often saw that power duo, ROBERTA & JERRY . . at the private, night-before-opening lobster-laden previews at DAVID ZWIRNER.<\/p>\n
\nSimon could always tell when I had written something really outrageous, or in frank opposition to her point of view . . . just by her expression !!
\nthen he’d rush home, and exclaim, what the f did you write – ?!!<\/p>\n
\nSIMON was probably the only starving artist – they let in to the lobster previews. I mean the dude did get around, he spread the buzz, and he liked – that Zwirner European agenda. <\/p>\n
\nstarting with the first online found porn blurry<\/a> images of 2001, 2002, and 2003.
\ncome to think of it, Simon was a bit of a ‘lounge’ act, himself <\/strong>!!<\/p>\n
\nSimon would have been very hurt that she and Jerry didn’t show for his memorial, or even make one dedicated line – addressed to his untimely passing, back in Jan 2013 – in either of their press platforms.
\nalthough both the OBSERVER<\/a> and artinfo<\/a> came up with some well-written, much appreciated, and not forgetting the character at hand . . entertaining obits !!<\/p>\n
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