Comments on: Hyperallergic Denies The Power of Mr. Happy Crack! http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/ New York art news and reviews. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Art Fag Cityhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-217009 Art Fag City Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:51:49 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-217009 Yeah, I don't think I compete with Tom Moody's annotating skills. Luckily I don't have to. Yeah, I don’t think I compete with Tom Moody’s annotating skills. Luckily I don’t have to.

]]> By: Art Fag Cityhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-318493 Art Fag City Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:51:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-318493 Yeah, I don't think I compete with Tom Moody's annotating skills. Luckily I don't have to. Yeah, I don’t think I compete with Tom Moody’s annotating skills. Luckily I don’t have to.

]]> By: Art Fag Cityhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-318494 Art Fag City Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:51:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-318494 Yeah, I don't think I compete with Tom Moody's annotating skills. Luckily I don't have to. Yeah, I don’t think I compete with Tom Moody’s annotating skills. Luckily I don’t have to.

]]> By: jessicahttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-216986 jessica Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:34:38 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-216986 "The exhibition provokes the audience to to gauge the innocence as opposed to the ignorance of the proverbial redneck."This and other gems found in ArtJail's press release for an October '09 show called "Gauge". Full release here:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nW76oPK4s1M/SuY_n923zrI/AAAAAAAAANk/mMpAMqal_58/s1600-h/Gauge.jpg “The exhibition provokes the audience to to gauge the innocence as opposed to the ignorance of the proverbial redneck.”

This and other gems found in ArtJail’s press release for an October ’09 show called “Gauge”. Full release here:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nW76oPK4s1M/SuY_n923zrI/AAAAAAAAANk/mMpAMqal_58/s1600-h/Gauge.jpg

]]> By: jessicahttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-318492 jessica Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-318492 "The exhibition provokes the audience to to gauge the innocence as opposed to the ignorance of the proverbial redneck."This and other gems found in ArtJail's press release for an October '09 show called "Gauge". Full release here:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nW76oPK4s1M/SuY_n923zrI/AAAAAAAAANk/mMpAMqal_58/s1600-h/Gauge.jpg “The exhibition provokes the audience to to gauge the innocence as opposed to the ignorance of the proverbial redneck.”

This and other gems found in ArtJail’s press release for an October ’09 show called “Gauge”. Full release here:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nW76oPK4s1M/SuY_n923zrI/AAAAAAAAANk/mMpAMqal_58/s1600-h/Gauge.jpg

]]> By: akhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-216971 ak Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:15:57 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-216971 lot's o good ones out there. not to be a stickler, but theoretical binaries are still subscribed to, and i'm guessing Gladstone is implying that they are inherently problematic and that by presumably exposing them via the art of Neshat, their problematic nature becomes clear. it seems unlikely that they are suggesting that Neshat's work works within these binaries as if they are fixed truths, but rather assumptions that can be and should be disabused. also mr moody's nominee, above, is pretty fantastic. lot’s o good ones out there. not to be a stickler, but theoretical binaries are still subscribed to, and i’m guessing Gladstone is implying that they are inherently problematic and that by presumably exposing them via the art of Neshat, their problematic nature becomes clear. it seems unlikely that they are suggesting that Neshat’s work works within these binaries as if they are fixed truths, but rather assumptions that can be and should be disabused. also mr moody’s nominee, above, is pretty fantastic.

]]> By: akhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-318491 ak Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-318491 lot's o good ones out there. not to be a stickler, but theoretical binaries are still subscribed to, and i'm guessing Gladstone is implying that they are inherently problematic and that by presumably exposing them via the art of Neshat, their problematic nature becomes clear. it seems unlikely that they are suggesting that Neshat's work works within these binaries as if they are fixed truths, but rather assumptions that can be and should be disabused. also mr moody's nominee, above, is pretty fantastic. lot’s o good ones out there. not to be a stickler, but theoretical binaries are still subscribed to, and i’m guessing Gladstone is implying that they are inherently problematic and that by presumably exposing them via the art of Neshat, their problematic nature becomes clear. it seems unlikely that they are suggesting that Neshat’s work works within these binaries as if they are fixed truths, but rather assumptions that can be and should be disabused. also mr moody’s nominee, above, is pretty fantastic.

]]> By: tom moodyhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-216813 tom moody Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:16:03 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-216813 It's no Mr. Happy Crack but in case you're still looking there's always this fave of mine: "Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset pursue a conscious cultural position that abstracts from issues of power, sex, and marginalized or subcultural behavioral patterns in an alignment with architectonics and style — as ways of emphasizing the 'private' as a reflection of the particular, singular, and non-generic in exploring social subject matters of class, privilege, gender, and nationality." My annotated version is here: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2008/04/23/press-release-annotated/ It’s no Mr. Happy Crack but in case you’re still looking there’s always this fave of mine: “Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset pursue a conscious cultural position that abstracts from issues of power, sex, and marginalized or subcultural behavioral patterns in an alignment with architectonics and style — as ways of emphasizing the ‘private’ as a reflection of the particular, singular, and non-generic in exploring social subject matters of class, privilege, gender, and nationality.” My annotated version is here: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2008/04/23/press-release-annotated/

]]> By: tom moodyhttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-318490 tom moody Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:16:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-318490 It's no Mr. Happy Crack but in case you're still looking there's always this fave of mine: "Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset pursue a conscious cultural position that abstracts from issues of power, sex, and marginalized or subcultural behavioral patterns in an alignment with architectonics and style — as ways of emphasizing the 'private' as a reflection of the particular, singular, and non-generic in exploring social subject matters of class, privilege, gender, and nationality." My annotated version is here: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2008/04/23/press-release-annotated/ It’s no Mr. Happy Crack but in case you’re still looking there’s always this fave of mine: “Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset pursue a conscious cultural position that abstracts from issues of power, sex, and marginalized or subcultural behavioral patterns in an alignment with architectonics and style — as ways of emphasizing the ‘private’ as a reflection of the particular, singular, and non-generic in exploring social subject matters of class, privilege, gender, and nationality.” My annotated version is here: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2008/04/23/press-release-annotated/

]]> By: Marisahttp://www.artfagcity.com/2010/01/21/hyperallergic-denies-the-power-of-mr-happy-crack/comment-page-1/#comment-216774 Marisa Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:18:05 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/?p=12216#comment-216774 This is the best press release ever!!! I wonder if this "team" is for hire. They are so punny, I "cracked" up for a good half hour. I love it. This is the best press release ever!!! I wonder if this “team” is for hire. They are so punny, I “cracked” up for a good half hour.
I love it.

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