"The Big Egg" - or - 2 minutes, 1 second wasted and where's my other 12 minutes and 59 seconds of fame.

Here is a parable of modern life.

My very good friends Lilith and Eliot Rockett get fed up with downtown Los Angeles life and move to Portland. There, they start living the genuine Portland life, you know, chickens, above-ground planting beds, riding an xtracycle to the market instead of their veggie-oil burning Mercedes. You know, the usual.

Then, one of their chickens lays a Big Egg. Lilith and Eliot make a home video in their kitchen of them Eliot cracking the Big Egg. They want to send the video to a friend, but the file is too big so they post it on Youtube.

It goes viral 1,040,000 views so far. Over 4,000 comments. It gets parodied on the Jimmey Kimmel Show.

The end.

Appreciation of the Beautiful - at MoMA

Bowl by Lucie Rie. Glass objects by Alvar (and Aino) Aalto.

An Appreciation of the Functional - at MoMA

New York - A great place for bicycles.

Bauhaus Show at MoMA - a day late ......

Just missed the Bauhaus show at MoMA.

Sunny California in Freezing New York

Just back from NYC. At David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea a show of first-rate 60's California Minamalism. That enough work to fill out any museums collection of the genre is all for sale at the same time speaks volumes about the pathetic (and self-inflicted) state of the current "art market".

In order

Robert Irwin (with stylish NYC young lady)
James Turrell (a great early one)
Laddie John Dill
Larry Bell
An entire room of Finish Fetish work (and a large dog)