33 Artists in 3 Acts (57 page)

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Authors: Sarah Thornton

Tags: #Non-Fiction, #Biography, #Art

Puppy
(Koons), 58

Pygmalion, 196

Qatar:

art scene in, 363–70

royal family of, 274–75, 327–28, 353, 364
n
, 366

Qatar Museums Authority, 364, 366

Qing Dynasty, 13, 84

“quasi-science,” 180

queer cinema, 354

Rabbit
(Koons),
76
, 78–79

race:

kinship in, 219–20

as subject of art, 217–23, 228, 357

Radio Time
s
, 322

Rauschenberg, Robert, 6

Ravaglia, Valentina, 374–75

artists defined by, 374

Ray, Charles, 189, 253

readymades, xiii, 4, 99, 111, 119, 248, 283–84, 298, 299, 305, 333, 348

ancient, 11, 92

assisted, 30

“real artists,” 80, 101, 190, 249

see also
authenticity

Red Book
(Jung), 246

Red Hook, Brooklyn, 141

Reina Sofia Museum, 38, 314

Reiring, Janelle, 253

Reko Muse gallery, 71

“Relics” exhibition (Hirst), 363–70

religion:

Hirst’s references to, 365

repression of, 39, 65, 78

see also
Buddhism, Buddha; Catholicism; Christianity; God; Muslims; saints

Rembrandt, 259

Remembering
(Ai Weiwei), 44

Renaissance art, 39, 80, 84, 107, 160, 308

reproductions, 17, 129

reputation management, 15, 366

Respini, Eva, 214

restoration, of art, 226–27

retirement, 200–201, 235, 248, 251, 253, 289

Richter, Gerhard, 17, 323

Riding, Vanessa, 251

Riley, Bridget, 340–41

Rio de Janeiro, 339, 342–43, 348

Riot Grrrl, 71

Rist, Pipilotti, 128, 179

Rivera, Diego, 30, 196, 331

Rivera, Emilio, 166

Rivera, Mario Orozco, 30–32

River Stones
(Orozco),
330
, 334, 336

Roberta’s pizza place, 182–83, 221

Roché, Henri-Pierre, 235

Romanticism, 50, 101, 214

romantic ways of thinking, 33, 38, 71, 80, 168, 190, 221, 235, 276, 309, 333, 336

Romero, Schroeder, 184

Rosa
(Elmgreen & Dragset), 119

Rosenquist, James, 6

Rosetta Vase, The
(Perry),
30
2
, 304

Rosler, Martha, 59, 65,
94
, 95–102

artists defined by, 100–102

studio and workspace of, 97

Rothko, Mark, 69

Rubens, Peter Paul, 80, 168

Ruiz, Cristina, 322

Saadiyat Island, UAE, Louvre and Guggenheim museums on, 77

Saatchi, Charles, 263, 322

Saatchi Gallery, 78

Saint Bartholomew, Exquisite Pain
(Hirst), 370

St. Kitts, 128

Saint Martin’s School of Art, 356

saints:

analogy between artists and, 15, 109, 113–14, 130, 365, 366, 367–68, 377

Marx as, 51

paintings of, 332

Saldanha, Ione, 341

Salle, David, 230

Salmon, Colin, 354, 356–59

Salon 94, 240

Saltz, Jerry, 158, 181, 183, 268, 328

“Samurai Trees” series (Orozco), 30

Sander, August, 72

Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Patrizia, 247
n

San Francisco, 211, 337

San Miguel Chapultepec, 335

Santiago, Chile, art scene in, 37–38

São Paulo, 340, 343, 348

satire, 184

Scandinavia, gay art scene of, 117–22

Scenes from a Marriage
(Bergman), 120

Scheidemann, Christian, 226–27, 327

Schirn Kunsthalle, 107–9

schizophrenia, 39

Schnabel, Julian, 185, 230

Schnabel, Vito, 185

Schneider, Lincoln (Simmons character), 240

School of Art and Architecture (UCLA), 296–97

Schorr, Collier, 73

Science (Hirst’s company), 257, 368

Scott Wright, Glenn, 313–17, 356

“Sculptor, The” exhibition (Koons), 105–7

sculpture, 56, 101, 105, 164, 247–48, 309

ancient Roman, 187, 191

family of, 188

living, 118

rationing in casting of, 281
n

see also specific works and a
rtists

Sean Kelly Gallery, 291

Second Opium War, 85

Ségalot, Philippe, 327

Sehgal, Tino, 235, 246

Sélavy, Rrose (Duchamp’s persona), xiii, 280

self-acceptance, 108

self-awareness, 309

self-belief, xiii, xiv, 88, 102, 159, 373

self-censorship, 52, 88

self-consciousness, 309, 349

self-esteem, 130, 156

Self-Portrait
(Zeng Fanzhi),
48
, 50

Self-Portrait as the Professor of Astronomy, Miscegenation and Critical Theory at the New Negro Escapist and Athletic Club Center for Graduate Studies
(Johnson),
21
6
, 223

Self-Portrait in Homage to Barkley Hendricks
(Johnson), 222–23

self-portraits, 40, 53, 56, 72, 145, 152–53, 175–76, 189, 212, 214,
216
, 222–23, 261, 272, 291, 348, 364

Alÿs’s “actions” as, 163–64

as depicted through observations of others, 127, 152

double, 153

Semiotics of the Kitchen
(Rosler),
94
, 95–96

Semiotics of the Kitchen Barb
ie
, 96

series, collectibility and, 17

Serota, Nicholas, 272, 369

Serpentine Gallery, Koons exhibition at, 3, 6, 258

Serra, Richard, 33, 296–97, 314

Seven Days in the Art World
(S. Thornton), xvi, 125, 258

sex dolls, 137–38, 161, 229

Sex in the Cit
y
, 281

sexuality:

in art, 6–7, 16, 17–18, 58, 70, 72, 78, 108, 142, 157, 160, 173, 181, 195–96, 208, 212–13, 227, 248, 249, 251, 271–73, 275–77, 306, 307, 349

Freudian, 6–7

love vs., 70–71

see also
erotica

Seymour, Stephanie, 130

shame, 207, 242, 277, 300

ShangART, 46, 50

Shanghai, 9–11, 47

Ai Weiwei’s studio demolished in, 91–92

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 9

shea butter, 218, 220

“shelves,” of Johnson, 220

Sherman, Cindy, xvi, 100,
170
, 171–77, 195,
210
, 211–14, 223

as loner, 171–72

and Simmons, 239–40, 242, 250, 253

studio of, 171–75

at Venice Biennale artists’ opening, 252–53

Sherman, Cindy (Boise photographer), 172

Shine, Ellie (Simmons character), 240

shock, artistic value of, 11, 159–61

Shoemaker chairs, 333

Shoot the Messenger
(C. Dunham),
154

Shot Marilyn
(Warhol), 227

Shrine to Alan and Claire
(G. Perry), 306

Sichuan earthquake, 91

casualties of, 44–45, 86

Sick Bacchus
(
Self-Portrait as Bacchus
) (Caravaggio), 175

Sigg, Uli, 50

Sign Painting Project
(Alÿs), 166

silkscreens, 40, 325–27

Silverman, Jessica, 337

Simmons, Laurie, xv,
132
, 133–38, 141, 176,
192
, 193–96, 206, 207, 225,
238
, 239–42, 248

artists defined by, 138, 207

and C. Dunham, 155–61

childhood of, 136

home/studio of, 133–36

and Sherman, 239–40, 253

at Venice Biennale artists’ opening, 249–53

Simon, Paul, 365

Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 30, 332

Siri (L. Dunham/Simmons character), 134–36

sisterhood, 71

6th Caribbean Biennial, Th
e
, 128

slaves, 222, 357

slideshows, 4, 180

Sling Hook
(Koons), 7

Smith, Melanie, 167

Smith, Paul Anton, 281

Smith, Roberta, 112, 158, 181

Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dre
am
, 29

Soccer Boulder
(Orozco), 337

“social aging,” 299

social commentary, art as, 72, 298–99

social realism, 30–31

“Society Portraits” series (Sherman), 213

Socrates, 169

Soho, N.Y., 171

“Sold Out” exhibition, 271

Sotheby’s, 80, 262, 313–14

C. Noland lawsuit, 327

Hirst’s auction at, 261–62, 273–75, 276, 323, 325, 335, 366, 368, 370

Souls of Black Folk, The
(Du Bois), 219

South by Southwest film festival, 156

South London Gallery, 217, 223

Soviet Union, 41, 86, 88, 274

Sozzani, Franca, 369

Spector, Nancy, 151, 199

Spermini
(Cattelan), 153

spin paintings (Hirst), 257

spirituality, 288–90, 334

spot paintings:

of Hirst, 8, 257, 259, 260, 321–22, 363, 366

of Kusama, 312, 313, 315, 317–18

Spring Break
(Schorr), 73

Sprüth Magers, 174

squirrels, taxidermied, 126,
148

staff, 52, 56, 111, 167, 172, 304, 313–18, 366

execution and fabrication delegated to, 15–16, 18, 24, 30, 38–40, 57, 80, 87, 107, 166, 221, 257, 282

in film production, 353–54, 356, 358–60

in research, 280

Staller, Ilona, 5–6, 271

stand-up comedians, 72

Steadicam, 353, 359

Stephanie
(“Trophy Wife”; Cattelan), 130

stereotypes, 213

Stiglitz, Joseph E., 350

Stingel, Rudolf, 190

stones, in Orozco’s artwork, 333–37

“Strange Fruit” (Holiday), 357

Streep, Meryl, 241

studios:

of Ai Weiwei, 43–45, 49, 91

of Alÿs, 162, 164–66

of Ataman, 64

of Cattelan, 233

of C. Dunham, 135, 141–45, 229–30

of Dalton, 179–81

of Dittborn, 38–39, 87

Fraser, 298

of Hirst, 257–60

of Johnson, 221

of Koons, 15–18, 105, 125–26

of Kusama, 316–18

of Marclay, 279

of Milhazes, 339–42

of Mutu, 56

of Orozco, 333

of Rosler, 97

of Sherman, 171–75

of Simmons, 133–36

as stages for artists, xiv

of Zeng Fanzhi, 49–53

Study for Bathers
(C. Dunham),
140
, 142–43, 158

Study of Perspective—The White House
(Ai Weiwei),
82
, 86

Study of Perspective—Tiananmen
(Ai Weiwei), 84

Subotnick, Ali, 201,
23
2
, 235

suicide, 316

Sunflower Seeds
(Ai Weiwei),
22
, 23–24, 29, 30, 45, 58

Super Us
(Cattelan),
124
, 127–28, 152

Supreme Court, New York County, 327
n

surrealism, 33, 234, 340–41, 374

Surrealistic Head #2
(Lichtenstein), 79

survey shows, 199, 219

Sutherland, Kiefer, 280

Symbionese Liberation Army, 326

Sze, Sarah, 245

Szeemann, Harald, 247

Table for Bergman
(Elmgreen & Dragset), 119

Takakura, Isao, 314, 316

talismans, 305

Talking Glove
(Simmons),
13
2
, 133

Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi, 64

Tan Zuoren, 10, 12

tapestry, 306, 309

Tarsila do Amaral, 340–41

Tate Britain, 261

Tate Etc
.
, 191

Tate Modern, 23, 29–30, 165, 241, 271–72, 275, 306, 308, 314,
320
, 322–23, 365, 373–75

Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Committee, 317–18

taxidermy, 119, 125, 126, 248–49, 258, 272

Taylor, Cecil, 359

teaching:

artists in, xv, 38, 70, 72–73, 98, 145–46, 181, 182, 240, 265, 291, 297–99

by curators, 11, 166

as persona, 181

Team Gallery, 238

Teenage Bedroom
(Lidén), 119

Telephones
(Marclay), 283

television, 101–2, 156, 173, 205–8, 242, 261, 280, 281, 305, 309–10, 317

Temps du Sommeil, Le
(Alÿs), 165

Ten Thousand Waves
(Julian), 356, 358

T.E. UCLA
(Serra), 296

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Th
e
, 328

Texte der Kuns
t
, 350

Thani, Sheikha Mayassa al-, 364, 369

theater, and performance art, 292

“There’s no place like home” (Fraser), 350–51

Thornton-Silver, Cora, 83, 86–87, 245–46, 249, 252–53

Thousand Years, A
(Hirst), 365

3 Blind Mice
(Blakey), 220

Three Dancers, The
(Picasso), 375

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
(Bacon), 261

Tiananmen Square protests, 44–45, 53, 84

Tierra del Fuego, 40

time, in art, 280–81, 290, 307

Tinari, Philip, 10–12, 47

Tiny Furniture
(L. Dunham), 133–36, 140, 156, 193,
204
, 208, 241, 249

Tiravanija, Rirkrit, 128

To Hang (Airmail Painting No. 05)
(Dittborn),
36

Tōhoku earthquake, 317

Toilet Paper
, 152, 201–2, 247

Tokyo, 86, 137, 318

art scene in, 12, 313, 358

Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, The
(G. Perry), 307–8

“Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, The” exhibition (G. Perry), 303–4, 307–8

Tomkins, Calvin, 19, 236
n
, 239

Tom of Finland, 121

“Torqued Ellipse” sculptures (Serra), 296

Total Equilibrium Tank
(Koons), 106

Tour de Claire, La
(G. Perry), 306

“Tourism” series (Simmons), 136

Touristi, I
(Cattelan), 247

Towards a Metalanguage of Evil
(C. Noland), 326

Tower (UCLA), 297

Toxqui, Daniel, 164

transitional objects, 299, 303–4

transsexuals, 63

travel, 32, 34

airmail paintings and, 38

in Pacific circumnavigation, 168

restricted, 86, 111–13

Tribeca, N.Y., 133, 137, 144, 225

Triple Candie, 126–29, 247, 328

Trockel, Rosemary, 254

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