WOW!

We've had a lot of visitors, guys! Here is a list, in order of frequency!
Tucson
Vienna
Palo Alto
Boulder
San Diego
Nashua
Lemon Grove
Bath
NY
LA
Mc Lean
Austin
Ballarat
Istanbul
Ithaca
Dearborn
Woburn
Aliso Viejo
Murfreesboro
Harlingen
Irving
Nowy Sacz
Arlington
Minneapolis
Amiens
Hong Kong
Amsterdam
Bishop
Scottsdale
Auckland

That's 9 countries, you guys!!!! So, thanks to all the visitors from the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Australia, Turkey, Hong Kong, France, New Zealand, and Poland!!!!!!! I hope this inspires all of us to keep at this Art Shit!!!!!!! ;PPPP

Love ya,
Smog

James L. Mathewuse

I think that the commentary going on in the last post is really great and if you haven't read it, you should do that now. But.. in my free time browsing the internet (and watching a Sweet Valley High tape I got earlier) I was looking at some of the old, great covers of Sweet Valley High books (Debuted in my birthed year of 1983) and reminiscing about spending hours and hours and hours and hours alone as a youth reading. I always loved these covers so much, but now I feel like I'm probably going to add this guy to my list of artist critique in the upcoming Soggy Stuff #6 along with Gil Elvgren and Charles Gibson.

Painted book covers are awesome. He did some of the later Nancy Drew ones too.
Love ya,
Smog

andrea fraser, UNTITLED

Untitled is a 2003 piece by institution critique and performance artist Andrea Fraser.

For this piece Fraser sold, with the help of a Gallerist, a night of sex to a private collector.

The work sold for $20,000 dollars and was filmed, for the collectors keeping.
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It raises questions of the artist themselves as the commodity rather then the value of their works. i get that. but i hate art that makes me ask "is this art." But i am forced to here.

Because I hate being on the fence about these things, I am willing to claim that i buy it.

opinions?????

Thom Puckey

Probably the most ingenious sculptor since Bernini himself, to make marble in the undeniable likeness to flesh is true talent. Of course there are differences between your father focussing a trade on you at age four and using modern technologies. Still it is amazing that instead of making a small scale model and just work on a giant pice of marble you would in this day in age; make a scale clay sculpture, make a mold of that sculpture, cast that sculpture in plaster, then use that plaster sculpture as a guide to carve your marble.

His studio looks like a weird sex shop!