Comments on: Mary Boone and Nicole Kidman Share Botox Forehead

By: John Tomlinson

John Tomlinson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:35:22 +0000

In the milieu she moves in, a mask is a must.

By: traumajuice

traumajuice — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:54:00 +0000

Maureen Cavanaugh???You gotta be kidding.I feel this person has a barely coherent sense of line or color,and a schlocky approach to boot.I am embarassed by it.

By: Hrag

Hrag — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:06:02 +0000

Bathing in virgin blood probably keeps her young…and you’re right, she must bathe a lot!

By: Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:42:52 +0000

It’s always fascinating to see these figures we take for granted interact with a larger public. I like imagining Larry Gagosian shutting his doors because he realized his project is “impure.”

As to the back and forth about her comment about how she knows when she’s found good art, I think it’s important to differentiate between the way a dealer interacts with an artist she might represent and the way she sells that work to a collector. I doubt too many collectors are in an artist’s studio quizzing them on the best ways to market their work. The sales pitches, the convincing of skeptics, is generally the job of a dealer.

Smart collectors are skeptical because they are buying something they have little control over. A dealer is actually closer to an artist; they are running scenarios internally during the visit, but they have a good deal of control. They’re looking at potential rather than finished product. Even assuming a perfect situation in which an artist has total creative control over what goes into an exhibition and even what gets sold, the dealer is still in virtually all cases doing the job of arguing for the work. I think I still believe that artists shouldn’t be in the business of arguing for themselves, which leaves dealers with the feelings Boone described as tools for making decisions about her program.

Nice find!

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By: Heart As Arena

Heart As Arena — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:46:23 +0000

Yeah. You’re probably right. To a certain extent, my response was more about the Basquiat film in my head rather than how it is in the real world, even my real world. Because it’s NOT always love at first sight. (Plus, that still doesn’t answer the question of “What makes art good?”) The new Maureen Cavanaugh show is a good example. I’ve known her work for a couple years now and enjoyed it without loving it, but this show put me over the edge. I’m swoonful. The paint. The line. The illitude.

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:44:07 +0000

Whose forehead doesn’t move? I really can’t believe she’s 50 though. She totally looks amazing.

For me, identifying good art work is a little more complicated than that. I’d be surprised for example if she landed sales by explaining, “who knows why I love what I do, I just do.”

By: Heart As Arena

Heart As Arena — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:31:36 +0000

When did her forehead ever move? If I were an actress, MB would be the first character I would want to portray. I think that she’s the physically tightest human being on the planet. To keep that up over an entire performance would be challenging and exhausting. Imagine doing it every minute of the day. Totally fascinating. This is not a dis. I think it’s a characteristic that doesn’t reveal anything. And when I say that I mean that it’s a characteristic that doesn’t reveal anything.

And I don’t know, Paddy. Her explanation about identifying good art works for me. Maybe it really isn’t any more complicated than that for her. It isn’t for me. Wait a second. Maybe I’M the next Mary Boone. OMG. Where is my fuzzy pink hat?