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when carl andre threw his wife out the window of their highrise apartment to her death, frank stella cut a $250,000 check for bail, and drove with lawrence weiner and paula cooper to spring him from rikers, and in the car ride back they all agreed never to ask carl what happened.
Paula Cooper by Cahline Tompkins
12.04.25 Jay Defeo Garnets on the Boulder-Paintings of the 1980s at Paula Cooper in Chelsea NYC.
Soaring, Gannets (Morus bassanus), Bass Rock, Scotland
‘I took this image from a boat trip to Bass Rock, looking up at the towering cliffs and the gannets soaring above it. I wanted to show the drama of the place so converted it to black and white and darkened the image. I had been lucky enough to also land on the island a few days before and had been able to photograph this huge breeding population of gannets close up, which have been totally devastated this year by avian flu hitting the island’
Photograph: Paula Cooper
British Wildlife Photography Awards
On 14 May, 1985, 15-year-old Paula Cooper and three of her friends played truant from school. They decided they were going to rob a neighbourhood house. They turned up at the doorstep of 78-year-old Ruth Pelke, a bible studies teacher. Under the pretence of requesting lessons from the teacher, they were let into her home.
One of the accomplices then struck Pelke over the head with a vase. Cooper subsequently stabbed the elderly woman a total of 33 times with a butcher knife. The girls then rummaged the house, only able to find $10 and some jewellery. They then stole Pelke’s car. The girls were apprehended and Cooper, who was the evident ringleader, was sentenced to death on 11 July, 1986.
The other girls received more lenient sentences and were all eventually released from prison. A few years later, Cooper’s sentence was commuted to 60 years due to her young age and her abusive upbringing. On 17 June, 2013, after 28 years in prison, Cooper left the prison a reformed woman; she had always expressed extreme remorse over her actions.
Just two years later, Cooper took her own life.
Laura Hunt - Untitled, 2018
60 x 20 in. (152.4 x 50.8 cm)
Ja'Tovia Gary at Paula Cooper
Hans Haacke at Paula Cooper Gallery
If you can’t get to politically-oriented artist Hans Haacke’s New Museum retrospective before it closes on Jan 26th, check out his huge pack of Marlboros in Paula Cooper Gallery’s tiny 21st St vitrine-like space, a sculpture about the relationships between art, politics and commerce. Made in 1990, the piece highlights cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris Company’s contradictory support both for the arts and for North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, who was famously critical of government support for the arts. Each five-foot long cigarette features a copy of the constitution (the company offered to supply a copy to anyone who asked), while the packaging bears the statement that the company’s ‘fundamental interest in the arts is self-interest.’ (On view through Jan 25th). Hans Haacke, Helmsboro County, silkscreen prints and photographs on wood, cardboard and paper, 30 ½ x 80 x 47 ½ inches, 1990.
