by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on January 7, 2015
- “Bill is my fake son. I had him made. He is an angry baby with bad hair. He was also my Christmas card one year, and people believed my fatherhood was true! The piece is a child’s stroller but with leather straps, and printed fabric with logos from all the sex bars that have vanished in New York or San Francisco. I’m trying to pay tribute to the passing of time for an outlaw minority that is now eager to be middle class.” John Waters on “Bill’s Stroller,” a sculpture included in his upcoming show at Marianne Boesky. [Artforum]
- What happens when you rub Cheetos dust on your chair for a year, you gross pig. [Imgur]
- Walker Waugh is leaving Yancey Richardson Gallery in Chelsea to open his own gallery in Red Hook. [Baer Faxt]
- Why museum admission should be free. [The Los Angeles Times]
- Ha ha! A delicious pan of Kappo Masa, Larry Gagosian’s ridiculously expensive restaurant opened in collaboration with chef Masayoshi Takayama. Yakayama’s flagship restaurant, Masa, was described as the city’s “greatest sushi restaurant” by the New York Times former dining critic Sam Sifton and given three stars. Pete Wells, the current dining critic for the Times gives Kappo Masa 0 stars, and explains that it would have only received one, if the prices were better. Service, apparently, is terrible. [The New York Times]
- 30 writing cliches to ditch in the new year. Thanks, Ben Davis! [artnet News]
- “The painful truth is that both West 53rd Street museum buildings, MoMA and Folk, are failures, and the only reason to oppose the demolition of the latter is because almost everything else being built on the street is less inspired and more expensive.” From Jason Farago’s “Learning to Live with MoMA.” [Frieze]
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