Waterposse

we fight the criminality of fracking by krancer and the privatization of water both of which destroy the WATER COMMONS

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New show, Miami Art Week 2017.

KIKI VALDES The Drawing Chronicles Opening Reception: Friday December 1, 2017 6-10pm December 1, 2017 - January 1, 2018 Swampspace / 3949 N. Miami Avenue 33127

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With Julia at Armory under Katelyne deBacker

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Dr Ruhe inking portraits ArtBaselMiami17. at NOBU with Salomon Gallery 5 to 7pm Thursday to Sunday. And out and about targeting cognoscenti and glitterati.

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doug ruhe  to mike kkkrancer, conversation on 2, 2, 13

DR- hi Mike you look pretty sad, i am here for you, tell me your heart, unburden your heavy soul.

MK- i'm an ethical guy, Doug, and damned clever.  and damned proud of me.  i got that first in class i got that big job as DEP  = Deputy Enforcer of ceo Privileges from that guy who likes the Penguins, i'm for the Flyers.  we still seem to have one thing in common, our puppet master is bigFrack.

DR- it is marvelous how a miserable tiny twit like yourself could be put in the historic heroic position of defending the entire environment of the state of pennsylvania,  'penn's woods'   for the safety and welfare of the trees and people and fish and cows, and at this amazing time when a vast mining operation is about to take place over half the entire land mass, with 60 tons of chemicals shot down each well with incredible pressure that explodes the rocks below creating horizontal gaps to release the sweet gas but also creating vertical gaps under incredible pressure to shoot the poisons back up to us.

you must be between some rock and some hard place Mike, no?

MK   'i sure am, Doug, but i try to make light of the perfect storm i am the perfect attendant upon.

after all, there's been wells dug for water pretty much everywhere, that's pretty dangerous too!!

DR- water wells are dangerous like frack wells? you're saying that right to my face like you think i am that stupid?  

MK- sure, Doug, that's a logical syllogism.  get it.  i also insist that the energy industry has inherent risks for people and the environment, hence Solar and Wind must have inherent risks if one just looks hard enough!!  

DR- did you actually say that?

MK- sure, it's on the video of me talking.  i have to put Wind/Solar in the same bad light as Fracking, otherwise people will casually naturally intelligently and gladly veer off to Wind and Solar like Germany just did, and leave the Frack Ceo's without a christmas bonus.   we wouldn't want that.  Look at all the stockholders who just bought our promise of returns.

DR- At 2$ instead of 4$ a unit on the market, isn't Fracking losing money for the shareholders?

You need 4$ market value just to break even.  

MK- Don't worry, Doug,  i've jimmied the regulations so that Frackers will never have to pay any liability to those farmers and families ruined by the devastation in Pennsylvania.   We wouldn't want the Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Industry to clean up their mess, nor pay for dying people and dead herds and property value crashes.  That would really piss off the shareholders.  INTERNALIZING COSTS OF DOING BUSINESS, like paying out for damages, like actually cleaning up the superTOXIC sites so we LEAVE NO TRACE BEHIND,  is simply not in our "budget".

DR- i heard you plan on giving each township 38,000 dollars as an impact fee, that sounds pretty generous.

MK- Yeah, we figured they could fix about 300 feet of roads with that money, pretty cool huh, Since we're driving trucks 24/7 across their roads and really trashing the place.   The rest they can come up with taxing the locals, but the payout is really a symbolic sum for their saving face at their complete submission and utter humiliation as they bend over and we fuck them up the butt.  and that is not a pretty picture i can tell you.

DR- How come the townships don't simply say no?

MK- It's a funny thing about human nature, these otherwise magnificent specimens of the male race who are towering figures in their community, protectors, defenders, firemen, fathers, good neighbors, will let us tie their hands behind their back, they will bend their heads low while we put a black hood over their face,

they will stumble with manacled feet as we guide them to the open pit, they will say nothing audible as we do our business in Srebenica in Katyn in Buchenwald in Darfur in My Lai,  

you'd think they would at least shout 'viva la france!'   or 'raise the siege at Orleans!"  or "solidarnosc!'

but no.   they really bought my trick.

I told them they were fired, no longer township supervisors representing their tender good neighbors who elected them, no longer obligated to follow their blood oath to protect their children and cows.  they were freed from the responsibility of history.  they were not men.  they were shot.

they obeyed.  like cows.  amazing isn't it?  i pissed on them lying in the pit, when it was all quiet, when it was over, i had no pity for them, no pride in their manhood, they didn't even know how to take a hit and hit back like my 'enforcers' on the Philly Flyers Hockey Team who are my real heroes.

the Supes of Pennsylvania, i know them for the dogs they are.  you kick them and they lick your hand.  

DR- wow Mike, that is pretty harsh, i thought you were their great white father, the DEP defender of the environment and the people therein. no?  

MK- hey look Doug, i'm a litigation lawyer.  that is in my blood.  i am setting the regs that render any class action suit against the frackers useless.  'we were following the regs' my frack buddies will say, we don't have to pay you nutting'.   true story! i wrote em!  

of course i'm just one guy rubber stamping the same M.O. committed across two hundred years of mining RAPE across the country.  why pick me out as special.

DR- interesting you should ask me that, Mike, i am picking you out as special, because you know yourself to be 'ethical', your word.

Mike Krancer- 'ethical' means toss them a flower as you kick them in the stomach.

DR- amazing answer, thanks.

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Artist Lindsey Nobel at the Santa Barbara Hotel pop-up exhibition “Unstretched”, Miami Art Basel 2014

  "I have developed a drawing language based on the otherwise invisible connections between humans and machines".

Lindsey Nobel, an LA artist who spent fourteen years in New York, is a traveler. West Coast - East Coast, to Europe or South Africa across the “giant liquid line”, Lindsey maps bridges between geography and mental space.

She magnifies the synapses of our brains with portraits of neurons and reveals the interconnectivity between people.

Fascinated by the Wi-Fi pulse, Lindsey tunes in to the white noise of our collective chatter with electric lines and mastered circles drawn on black paper.  Pure streams of white on white matte + shiny, liquid love flows, contained but unrestricted. The artist fights the traffic for us on the busy train of thoughts from bits to constellations, from the individual to the crowd. Science meets magic and we commute with ease. This body of work zeros in on fleeting reflections while reminding us that we are one. Lindsey shapes new waves of art & intel.

A nudge to break away from our screens. Calls to free the mind, a generous offering from Lindsey Nobel to our global heart.

  Emmanuelle Linard

www.emmanuellelinard.com

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Anthony Haden-Guest at Artbaselmiami via StaBarbaraHotel

showing a slew of artworks that may also stand in as cartoons, Anthony grimly wonders what portraiture would offer his oeuvre, Ruhe says "Anthony, your portraiting is trenchant now and to the point, keep at it" , since they work a deux at portraitmarathons in 2014. the specifics of portraiture as an anchor for a reference.  his Leonardo and Nietzsche and HunterThompson all are to wit.

to wit, to woo. Anthony's passion is part of the pathos, the humor, the grit and the grime discovered in great cartooning. that is modernism after all. dare i say it.  google AHG to see his images, they are compelling. art. 

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Alice Neel at ArtBaselMiami2014- by Dr Barnaby Ruhe

OK it is Elizabeth Neel posting a seven foot high abstract tour de force on raw linen. Alice is no doubt channeling her direct hand, no nonsense delivery to the granddaughter of note. Ok this is a guess that the fairygodmother nee grandmother is working the painting. More likely Elizabeth is of her own toughmindedness at working abstraction. I looked diligently at each mark, a dab a smash a smudge a single minded delivery. Each mark somewhat isolated while interacting, the unapologetic hand has that Alice Neel sort of remark. Elizabeth's painting is big and stunning a classic at abstraction of the Modernist sort. Post Modern would more be Rauschenberg's wry offhanded copy art of abstract gestures with virtually no commitment to color or mood. Recall those 60's Pop comments on abstraction with no blood coursing through, disinterest rather. Very cute, murdering the notion that art matters in the making. is that 50 years ago he axed Modernist passion as oversentimental? That kid R Rauschenberg. What must Modernism do. I would suggest Modernism never went anywhere to die, no elephant graveyard. Only some opportunistic press (Greenberg's bad nose) following the lead of some opportunistic galleries following the painted word, needed to find the NEW. What is actually new is a single artist attending to the moment of committing paint to canvas. Each artstroking moment is in the NOW. This is what Elizabeth has in common with Alice, the immediacy of art attack with a blunt instrument. Recall that the kid Jean Michel B also used the rough delivery for good purposes, but more surprising is that JMB also worked Modernism into his kitchen sink delivery of texts and images, with his Clifford Still homaged backgrounds that served as foil for his automaticist mind dumping terrific found images and found texts atop. Two tectonic plates colliding to make a mountain range, mind you, Modernism and PM Conceptualist Automaticism, was the thrust of a Basquiat. Now it becomes more clear his power. Once you consider that Modernism never died for JMB. This is the point of my article. Get over it. Modernism isn't dead, never was. You don't kill the gods, lord how you may try with the written word. The ancient Hebrews thought they could rewrite genesis, write out, blot out, whitewash the goddess Asherah wife of Yahweh. Erase her. Make Eve some second rate afterthought from Adam's rib. the press manage to retell a history, but what went down went down and may still go. Arnason's Modern Art book of the 70's pretended that Abstract Expressionism ran out of steam, following a Greenbergian put down to set up Color Field and Op and Pop. Not so. It may be that the Elizabeth Neel classical abstraction of 2014 is a glove dropped with that thud.

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ArtBaselMiami2014

When Donkey's Fly

by Lee Klein

When Donkey's fly through donkey donuts, giant rounds of faux icing it not surprising that the art-world and all of its attendant bling so attractive as well a distraction even to those who are supposed to be doing the summarizing will gather where the punch bowl blazes as it disappears over the horizon,

So he we were a motley crew Abolik, Ruhe and Klein at the big date the billionaires in track shoes running to collect watever they are going to collect and the famous names, Peter Brant 1, 

Owen Wilson, Leonardo DICaprio, Diddy (Sean Combs), Baz Luhrman, Toommy Hilfiger and many more.  What is in store and Iam going to the store Iamm going to the store even as Phoebe Legere say Art is not a combat sport... What doI care I am all washed up with wished htat my photographic memory would have brought it all together with art by doing my part.

So all  of the art whats stands out for this coffee fountain is Stanton MacDonald' Wright's monumental sychromist canvas  and a couple of works by the amazing Canadian sculptor David Altmejd.  

Meanwhile when it was time to party while drinking Perrier.

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Danto's examination of Sistine Ceiling scrubbing

dear Arthur Danto!   i wrote in Art World newspaper back in 1990? i'll look to find it, an impassioned plea to not restore the ceiling.  

 and read with gusto your chapter, just today, as the book is on my students' reading list at Gallatin School of NYU, this fall.

'lamp black' is a pigment label at the store!   i buy it.  so when the Japanese declared 'lamp black is on the ceiling so let's remove it" , i blanched. 

i'd say some of the soot is from lamps indeed. AND SOME IS 'A SECCO'  as you called it, applied by Michelangelo after the fact!! after the plaster hardened.   both!

He had to!   

Recall those drawings he tortured with shadowing. on and on.   

Recall the shadow play that results in the block roughed out.. enfolding the finessed writhing 'slave'.   if you remove the block you lose the fabulous play of light on the 7th degree polished waist, to the hacked recesses which therefore make a dark moment. the control is toooooo apparent. the intent to keep the block for this purpose. the out of focus face like in photography as he focuses instead on the erotically twisted waist. The 'slaves' had to be 'finished' as is, since the roughed block contributed so much intentional shadow play next to the struggling figures. This makes Vasari's guesses why they were incomplete moot, and limiting. At Michelangelo's death he said 'I am just beginning to learn my vocabulary', and the premonitions of the 'slaves' bore out in later art.

so again, the shadow play at the Sistine ceiling is integral to Michelangelo's Inner Necessity (Kandinsky's apt emphasis).  

there are a few figures that have dramatic shadow play on their bodies where the shadows DISAPPEAR AFTER THE RESTORATION.  these are worth finding Before and After, to confirm that Michelangelo indeed enhanced the figures 'a secco'.   note the foreshortening wants some dramatic light and dark! gone!  

Your point that the framing of the 'pictures' need not also be shadowed by Michelangelo, but i am here suggesting that this general shadowing from lamp soot could have accounted for a lot of that, AND there were shadows increased by Michelangelo, for effect, 'a secco'.  Both. 

my suspicion was that the restorers were entirely of their own world of objectivity, without any sense of the art of it.  they had heard that frescos were painted of a piece, with the paint embedded in the plaster. they did not consider that Michelangelo was A SCULPTOR NOT A FRESCO PAINTER. such that he might attempt some 'a secco' after the first paint (not the last) out of his own needs for sculptorly modeling, as in his drawings!  

I also suspect that the Last Judgment figures are much much more modeled, light to dark, and inside the plaster,  as he finally adjusted his approach that many years later.  We could then look to those Last Judgment figures to understand where Michelangelo was going with the 'a secco' applications on the earlier ceiling.  Indeed, the Judgment figures look like the ceiling figures BEFORE THE SCRUBBING. this from my viewing in 2010. 

Danto's piece on the Sistine scrubbing reopens the debate. It should not pass unexamined. 

yours, Barnaby Ruhe, PhD, Waterposse. Art/World Newspaper as blog.

--  [email protected] PhD 917 721 2541       55 bethune st, h215, ny,ny, 10014 shamanista, provocateur, artist, Waterposse, Shamandome Camp at Burningman; senior editor: http://artworldnewspaper.tumblr.com/ 

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PORTRAITPAINTINGMARATHON

coined in 1979 after running a marathon of 26.2 miles, i thought why not paint that many hours that should be something. On Mercer St in Soho i painted that long, a portrait an hour, it was killer, i needed a shower and a toothbrush by dawn and the joggers were coming in instead, cheerful and peppy, so i painted them too instead. The zombies had finally left at first light, my shower break was thwarted.  The work got..... tighter! which was very weird, i had thought that at the Hour of the Wolf of 4am i'd get really sloppy, but no.  Perhaps those brain cells were already used up and only my graphic anal retentive labor intensive self was left at the easel.  In any case i found that lifetimes of art making were morphing in front of my eyes. Styles shapeshifted. Nothing made sense in this prolonged painting attack, but it was something i could live with.  Barnaby Ruhe, 2013 about the first event 34 years ago, and after a hundred such portraitpaintingmarathonandsalondeguerre.

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Uplifting

Metaphysical. A NYC exhibition. Barnaby Ruhe at Dorfman Projects. Artists in virtual dialogues. Spectators thrown into the dialogue. LoH

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Io seduced by Zeus as a cloud, another way to upend the goddess cults, by subterfuge and innuendo. Historically, and across the Aegean the sky god priests made consorts out of the indiginous autochthonic matriarchs, at least they kept them in play which is  more than we can say  about our monotheistic predatory religions of late.  My painterly actions are here  prompted by my female underbelly that Jung terms my psyche.  Corregio’s painterly persuasion resonates .  Zeus again, here as a cloud persuading a sophisticated lady  to consort with the upstart parvenue sheepherding Achaeans. The greek Golden Age was possible because of the premise set up in the Odyssey by that Sicilian authoress of 1100 BC, when she had Ulysses pull the sword at the throat of Circe who purred and invited him to her bed instead.  Instead of crying ‘rape!’.  This approchement let the surly Achaean warriors collaborate with the autochthonic indigenous climax culture they had moved into from the North, with their Bronze cutting edge weapons, instead of lowering the bar.  Even Mongols took in the prevailing wisdoms and arts as they moved West.  

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waterposse is water flowing under tumblr.

bottled water is simply tap in america tapped for free by french or german ceo's and sold back to silly americans at 1100 times cost.  but why would you? it is stale stagnant water not aerated and fresh out of the great taps in nyc,

jennifer anniston has no idea how dumb she looks getting paid off by 'smart water.'

free water under our feet is owned by the people, at the township local political level, in eminent domain.  townships pump it to your tap at cost, a few pennies a year.

so don't let your own township cash that miserable check for 20 million dollars from the big french/german bigwater corporation to privatize your local township public water service.    they make that cash back in a month from bottling, then sell your tap back to ...still in your tap... for 3000$ a year.  can you afford that?