Comments on: Gap Artist Edition T-Shirts – Jeff Koons/Barbara Kruger/Chuck Close/& More

By: Balzac

Balzac — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:52:53 +0000

Proof positive that it is better to be pissed off than pissed on.

By: Judi Collins

Judi Collins — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:26:02 +0000

THEY DID PEE ON KRUGER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t8pUQbZhhU

By: Katy Lemonte

Katy Lemonte — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:43:05 +0000

There was some sort of Babrara Kruger protest about the T-Shirts and Gap’s involvement with sweatshops and human rights violations.

Some artists urinated on her installation or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2FlqJ9v04

Article:

Pissed Off Artists Allegedly Urinate on Kruger Art
Installation

A group of artist protesters calling themselves “The
Infinity Lab” were arrested Thursday after witnesses
reported acts of vandalism on the new Barbara Kruger
Installation commissioned by University of California
San Diego’s Stuart Collection.

The protesters chanted, “Another formulaic Kruger”,
as one of them allegedly urinated on the
installation’s floor text. Campus police arrested the
3 protesters as they continued to mock the
installation.

http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/38019

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:45:25 +0000

You should have seen good-ole-trendy-to-the-bone Flash Art in the 70s — pages and pages of tiny b/w photos looking like bad photocopies (Xerox variety then). All of somebody naked or an empty room. Maybe you can find archived back issues and torture yourself. I find it intersting that it appears to be not only a convention, but it became a formal-aesthetic style issue, the very thing that it was supposed to be against. I have to admit that en mass, they were interesting, just not useful as conveyors of information.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:47:17 +0000

Richard Pettibone would wear Andy Warhol’s shirt.

Yes, I know Mark, it just goes on and on.

Monochromatic shirts, ill-fitting shirts, there’s no end.

On another topic, I’m reading every conceptual art book I can get my hands on. And I ask this crowd “What is the point of photographs in conceptual art books?” It’s this art book convention everyone feels the need to hopelessly follow. If I see one more photograph of an empty room, a barren field or a blank piece of paper, I’m going to go bananas.

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:40:33 +0000

A Chris Burden T: A bullet hole in the left short sleeve.

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:36:26 +0000

Fabulous Kathryn! I think I’ll have my art history students steal your idea as an exercise.

A Neo-Conceptualist shirt — you hire someone else to buy one and wear it and get three curators to constantly follow the poerson around giving speeches about the importance of it all … A Chicago Neo-Conceptualist shirt , you copy the former idea and everybody is supposed to act like it is new and your idea … oh noooooooooooooo Kathryn you’ve got me hooked now …………………

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:57:01 +0000

A Damien Hirst shirt that costs $100 million.

A Yoko Ono shirt that’s just instructions for wearing a shirt.

A Fluxus shirt that has no arm or neck holes.

A readymade shirt that’s a t-shirt from Urban Outfitters.

Somebody stop me, I could do this all day.

Kathryn

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:53:17 +0000

They could have a Yves Klein shirt where you pay for the shirt and don’t get anything.

By: Lynn Decent

Lynn Decent — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:28:17 +0000

Koons isnt a yawn and hasbeen u twits! ugh. dont b so attention deficit sound bite oriented. yes some art and artists dont stand the test of time but critics are never was beens 2 start with! sheesh…the most current trend in contemporary art today is thumbing your nose at seperation of commerce and high art…Koons is pretty fricken releveant today, 7 months ago…On November 14, 2007 his art piece “Hanging Heart” sold at Sotheby’s auction house for $23.6 million becoming, at the time, the most expensive piece by a living artist ever auctioned. It was bought by the Gagosian Gallery which also purchased another Koons sculpture entitled “Diamond (Blue)” for $11.8 million from Christie’s auction house on Tuesday, November 13, 2007. [3