Amy Goodwin

The Art Newspaper reports that the american artist robert rauschenberg has sued a florida artist for selling his
trash. the defendant, robert francis montgomery found a collection of work by rauschenberg in the artist's trash
in 1998. he subsequently gave a way many of the works and sold one. the incident resulted in a court case in
which rauschenberg claims that the sale of this counterfeit work jeopardizes his reputation and the value of his
legitimate works. montgomery on the other hand aks, 'why does the lion want to eat the mouse?'.

'minutiae' by robert rauschenberg, 1954

'untitled' by robert rauschenberg, 1955

On David Horvitz's website he lists lovely things you can buy.
For example:

"If you give me $1,412 I will go to Japan, go to a mountain, find a buddhist monk, and share a cup of tea with him or her. I will mail you something from in or around the temple. I don't know what it is yet, I have to find it there."

"UPDATE: While in Japan I will also learn how to brew the best Japanese green tea. I will study hard and perfect it. I will then make YOU a cup of green tea! You will either have to come to New York, meet me in Japan, or pay for my plane ticket to meet you wherever you are."

david horvitz

Frida + Fawn

fffound

I miss Mark Morris' big pouf of hair but I still love his work.
I enjoy listening to him discuss his method.

of all the baby laughing videos

my favorite

A new study from the University of Michigan shows that having a husband creates an extra seven hours of extra housework a week for women. But a wife saves her husband from an hour of chores around the house each week.
link

I know I posted this before but I still like it so I'm posting it again.

Some good simple tips

50 ways

"Has any work of art been more reviled than Aliza Shvarts's senior project at Yale? Andres Serrano's photograph of a crucifix suspended in his own urine did not lack for articulate champions. Nor did Damien Hirst's vitrine with its doleful rotting cow's head. But Ms. Shvarts's performance of "repeated self-induced miscarriages" has left even them silent. According to her project description, she inseminated herself with sperm from voluntary donors "from the 9th to the 15th day of my menstrual cycle . . . so as to insure the possibility of fertilization." Later she would induce a miscarriage by means of an herbal abortifacient. (Or so she claimed; whether she actually did any of this remains unclear.)"

"Ms. Shvarts may have, as she asserts, intended her project to raise questions about society and the body. But she inadvertently raises an entirely different set of questions: How exactly is Yale teaching its undergraduates to make art? Is her project a bizarre aberration or is it within the range of typical student work, unusually startling perhaps but otherwise a fully characteristic example of the program and its students?"

Art and (Wo)man at Yale in the WSJ

Bruce Nauman
Run from Fear, Fun from Rear
1972
Froehlich Collection