ArtNet columnist Charlie Finch blogged / flogged ALIEN BOY this week in one of the better read national art opinion columns.
READ – Artists as Optimists
Charlie got all the facts of the case of what happened to James Chasse wrong, but that’s entirely immaterial. His point is to illustrate how artists are, as Robert Rauschenberg-quoted by Calvin Tompkins, the nation’s most under-utilized resource, and how artists and art-people from Ena Swansea to Agnes Gund have found activities other than art-making which keep the world wonderful.
Finch starts his writing with the example of Eva Lake, Portland artist extraordinaire, who is pulling double-duty coordinating house parties to raise funds to finish ALIEN BOY. Eva is also the author of LoveLake, and host of KBOO’s morning arts show.
Finch is the co-author of Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula (Smart Art Press).
READ – We’re Optimists, from Lovelake.org
READ – Artists as Optimists AND Activists, from Chez Namaste Nancy
If you have a elegant home and want to help ALIEN BOY get finished, give us a ring and host a house party.
