Was such a delight to see that super
hot lady of high art Ms. Lia Gangitano of the incredible Participant Inc.
Gallery in Berlin bringing her universally lauded Greer Lankton exhibition to
Berlin at Wolfgang Tilman’s Between Bridges Gallery on Keith Strasse in Schoeneberg. This exhibit is on every critic in the worlds
top ten list as the best of the best in 2014 and it really is divine. I first met the late Miss Lankton back in the
1990s in Chicago as she was part of the clique surrounding Steve
LeFreniere. Her famed doll sculptures do
really transcend, and she was just the sweetest most lovely human being that
ever called this Island earthina home. Lia was being flanked by hordes of well wishers
that included art superstar Nan Goldin.
I am so glad Lia is getting her due as she is the last of a special
breed of smart with it curators. Her not-for-profit
gallery Participant Inc on the Lower East Side is the only one of its kind
still left in the “New Danger Capitalism New York City”. I first met Lia in 1990 when she was the head
curator at Boston’s ICA and she brought me to that city for the first time for
the legendary series Dress Codes. Lia
also gave Catherine Opie her first big institutional art gig as well. Lia left Boston and joined Thread Waxing
Space in SoHo before starting her her gallery where I had my first solo
exhibition in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy Duncan.
Coming back to Berlin from my travels to
Canada and the UK I caught a cold and then stomach flu with the flying
patooties(projectile excrementing) so I thought I would miss Lia’s visit but thankfully I recovered-but
barely. Will be off on another trek to
far off locations which I will talk more about in another postada but just want
to give 1,000,000 kisses to the great and powerful Miss Lia I love you lady!!!!!
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Those of you in Frankfurt am Main
area please check out this exhibition and long overdue retrospectacle by art fotog Annette Frick who along with her longtime life partner Wilhelm Hein have been getting
a lot of International attention and admiration lately:
A C H T U N G !! B I T T E
V O R M E R K E N !!!
Filmkollektiv Frankfurt zeigt:
EIN AUGENBLICK IM NIEMANDSLAND
RETROSPEKTIVE: ANNETTE FRICK
FILME - VIDEOS - DIAS
+ MEHRFACHPROJEKTIONEN
SAMSTAG 11.4.2015 ab 16
Uhr
im HORST - in der
Kleyerstr.15-17 - Frankfurt
in den Adlerwerken an
der Galluswarte
es erscheint eine Publikation
mit zahlreichen Abbildungen,
Materialien und Texten von u.A.
Angela Mc Robbie
Dennis Vetter
Gary Vanisian
Sissi Tax
Wilhelm Hein
Dr. BearBoy
Ruvi Simmons
und einem Comic von Flore
Vigneron
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The wonderful Manuela Schinina’
aka: DJane Bianca Kruk hosted an Easter
Mongay dinner at her lovely flat at Kott Busser Damn the food was heavenly and
the fellowship divoon consisting of Nanna Heidenreich, Daniel Hendrickson and a
lovely lesbianfeministiche couple Bettina and Xana who have recently given up
being artists and curators which I applaud. Their work can be found here:
windberreira.com. And now the simply
delici menu:
caponata di melanzane (tradizionale siciliana) , which was
the side dish with aubergine
salsa di menta , which was the sauce insalata arance e
finocchi , also sicilian ! but very fashionable lately in berlin and lamb
with roasted internationalist potatoes
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Felix Knoke the editor of greatly
missed D-bug Magazine and writer with Der Spiegel and Der Stern hosted a
Filmhighlights Magazine studio audience intervention in the Schiller Kiez in Neu
Kolln. Felix rents a studio at the Kamo
Atelier and told me he thought it would be a nice idea if Manuel Schubert aka:
Vicki Baum and I did our monthly podcast promoting Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music in front of a live audience of his
studio mates. I said yes not realizing that Felix would make a public
announcement on Facebook I wanted just a nice quiet little thing in front of a
few of his select friends and associates.
Well thankfully Felix took down the Facebook posting, but there was still quite a
large unexpected turnout that included Felix’s
beautiful girlfriend Angela Nicoletti,Glen Meadmore European tour guitarist
Tilmann Schuepter,Dutch photographer Sandra van Egmond, Luca Bendandi of
publishing firm Vetro Editions which is part of the Kamo Atelier, Slovenian
dramaturgist Urska Brodar, penile projectionist Marius Roth who also works for
Juergen Bruning and his girlfriend the filmmaker Cylixe who was a top student
of Birgit Hein,interior architect Michele Bruni and psychology Phd student Anna
Janssen, the underground musician Andreas “Krach”Stoiber who more people need
to know about as he is a Berlin treasure, designer and illustrator Kasha Beyer,
Italian Fordham Baldie Andrea Teller, hunky young and very personable Tobias Zimmerman and young artist
and junior curator Andre Kirchner who took quite a liking to our little Manuel
Schubert-could Springtime romance be blooming? Plus, Mariabrigida from Mama Roma, and an assortment of Argentine
party girls just happy to be anywhere.