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...Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray (a naked woman dances to a Ray Charles song) and Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving (birth, in gynecological closeup) were also, relatively speaking, hot stuff. Carolee Schneeman's Fuses was 18 minutes of lovemaking -lovemaking turned into an art movie because the artist had painted on, or baked, the film stock, but it was photographed whoopee all the same...
...world of the '80s expanded exponentially because it produced a more aggressively commercial breed of artist and dealer. How different that was from the decade before, with its monastic retreat from the marketplace. Steeped in the directives of '60s radicalism, many artists of the '70s wanted nothing to do with making deluxe commodities to be traded around in the capitalist gallery system. They deliberately moved into practices--performance art, installations, earthworks--that left behind very little that could be hung on some rich guy's walls. It was an approach that a lot of artists returned...
...mildly, the biggest names of the '80s had no such compunctions about money. Koons, a former commodities trader, publicized his 1988 "Banality" show with color-photo magazine ads that showed him on a pony being fed cake by a model in a bikini--the artist as king of the world. In another he was cavorting with pigs. Thinking back on that ad now, Koons has a simple explanation. "I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me," he says. And anyway, he has had the last laugh. He turned...
Actually, it did, although the innovations it came up with were not always the kind that protected and developed an artist's talent. All that new money fostered a resale market, in which dealers helped collectors unload pictures they often had not held long in the first place. Paintings were "flipped" like Miami condos and traded like pork bellies--not a market designed to cultivate an artist's career over the long haul. "I try to forget the '80s as much as possible," says Robert Longo. "I was a total egomaniac, a lunatic child at that point." Early...
...Chirico's pristinely preserved two-level apartment in Rome's splendid Piazza di Spagna, where he lived for more than 30 years until his death in 1978, is an intimate way to encounter some of the artist's best-known works. A guide ushers visitors into the living area, which has been left largely as it was during De Chirico's life and displays dozens of his works. "He lived in his own museum," notes Victoria Noel-Johnson, project coordinator for the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation...