The New York Times' writes that in an effort to create a twenty million dollar endowment, the Donald Judd Foundation has decided to sell about thirty-five Judd sculptures at Christie's. Director Barbara Hunt McLanahan said "This was not a decision taken lightly. We considered all our options, and this is the best option." Marianne Stockebrand, whom Judd appointed as director and lifetime trustee of the foundation, has resigned over the sale. "I was in favor of a slower approach, to sell things one at a time and place them in collections carefully, which would have been better for Judd's legacy. With auctions, you have no control over where things go," said Stockebrand.

Let's face it 20 million is a good bit of change, however if there is a fire sale now - what's the point except to bring prices down. I do agree with Ms. Stockebrand, however there needs to be a different plan than abandonment of the foundation, when clearly you are one of it's driving forces. This is sad on many levels.

Update: I've wanted to note the source of the photo, but I was too lazy to look it up again - that problem is solved - Photo by Chris Ashley. You can visit his blog here.

I love, I love, I love, Daniel Clowes "Art School Confidential". But here's my concern. ASC was a 4 page comic in the back of an early "Eightball" issue. I'm not entirely sure how 90+ minutes is going to get filled as a full scale release. However, Dan Clowes is great, as is John Malkovich, Anjelica Houston, and Director Terry Zwigoff is no slouch - so I'm hopeful.

The trailer looks pretty good, check it out here.

Personal life has gotten way out of hand - it's settling down now.
Sorry to have been away, It's good to be back.

How are you doing? I've just made some coffee, would you like a cup?

Lori Nix
I was at the latest issue of Artkrush and saw her image as the cover of this weeks issue - wow. I was unaware of her although she has been showing since the mid-ninties pretty regularly.

Her bio lifted off Artkrush
Her work has been featured in numerous solo shows, including Lost (2005) at Miller Block Gallery in Boston, Lori Nix: The Banality of Terror (2004) at DiverseWorks in Houston, and Some Other Place (2003) at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, California. Her photography is currently on view in three group exhibitions: Picturing Eden, a traveling show organized by George Eastman House in Rochester, New York; Joint Venture at the Nelson Gallery of the University of California, Davis, California; and I Heart the Burbs at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, New York.

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I've stolen this interview from New York magazine's coverage of the film hornographic. It also gives me a good reason to post an image of his on the blog.

Do you watch conventional pornography?
There’s a video store near where I live that has a back room for X-rated videos. There’s no he/she, no pissing, no German or Greek . . . no amateurs. Boring. I used to watch porn in Times Square when I worked in the area—“loops” from Sweden.

What single artwork do you think is the sexiest?
I like Diane Arbus’s photos of nudist camps.

Biggest turn-on?
Stills from the early fifties of the wife-swapping clubs in Texas.

Biggest turn-off?
Nazis.

What’s the last thing that shocked you?
Getting a plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix’s penis for a Christmas present.

the French Culture Ministry has said that an amateur cave explorer discovered 25,000-year-old-art, older by several thousand years than the cave paintings at Lascaux, sixty miles to the southeast.

So I'm minding my own business and reading the latest issue of Dwell and who do I see? thats right JC. So here's the story - on the editor's note page (this is the page after the table of contents) there is the letter from Allison Arieff along with a photo of her living room. So count them 5 JC's are on the wall above her sofa. These are all from the "Testing" series and look great. Lets face it, they look great because they are...

Dwell is available at your local newsstand now.

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No Longer Innocent: Book Art In America 1960-1980 Betty Bright
Betty Bright has put together an overview of the history of the artist book. Beginning with William Morris and moving through Duchamp before arriving at Ed Ruscha and the explosion of artist books in the late sixties and seventies. Book works, as well as Alternate spaces and site specific public art all have a interesting trajectory around this time period it would be interesting to see how this could be timelined in a way that could connect the dots of the pluralist era before the return of painting in the 80's. Like I've said before I have not read this, but my credit card has been used at amazon dot com recently.

By the way, for a great book art collection check out VCU's library (second floor special collections) - I believe they still supply the white gloves.

Verso's "Radical Thinkers"
Not a single book per se, however RT is a new collection of theoretical writing that always is worth a second look. I really need to whore myself to the publisher to get a free copy or two but this will have to do. Check out the names; Baudrillard, Virilio, Derrida, Adorno. I will always admit to being a theory junkie and this is going to be quite a collection or at least a tasty snack treat.

Have you seen Alex Ovechkin's goal against Phoenix last week? I've held off on a hockey post for the whole season, your welcome in advance.

Follow this link.

Nam June Paik passed away at his Miami home on Sunday, January 29th, 2006.

Le Monde reports that Yoko Ono, her son Sean, and the actor-director Vincent Gallo will colloborate for a one-time performance at Paris's Châtelet theater on February 18. "One evening with Yoko Ono," which combines art, video, and music, is described as "an encounter with the largest public"; to that end, all tickets are priced at €5 ($6).

For what it's worth - I hate Vince Gallo, and I'm not a big Yoko fan for that matter. This event should really be a train wreck of reasonable proportions.