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Performance art gone wrong

When I saw that Philippa Hughes was hosting a performance artist in her apartment for a week as an experimental art piece (Art is Fear) about the relationship between artist and collector, I was intrigued. I’ve been too busy to check in and see how it’s going. Yesterday’s piece in the Washington Post by Kriston Capps gives some clues. Joe Flood’s blog post about visiting Philippa during the experiment tells more of the story, including an unfortunate visit by the ASPCA!

I’m sort of glad I didn’t bother Philippa while the experiment was in progress, it sounds like she had her hands full. I also sort of regret not making some time to visit, because I would have liked to have seen the project in progress for myself.

Julian Schnabel

Spotted this in the Reliable Source this morning:

Julian Schnabel dining at Buck’s Fishing and Camping Friday night with daughter Lola. The artist/filmmaker wore pajamas to his meal of steak, bone marrow, ice cream. (Why? Because he’s Julian fricking Schnabel, that’s why.) In D.C. to give a talk at the Hirshhorn.

We attended the talk on Friday. It was entertaining. And yes, Schnabel appeared to be wearing pajamas under a button down plaid shirt. I can’t say whether it was the cold he had, cold meds he may have taken, or GAW (Generalized Artist Wackiness) that led to Schnabel’s sartorial choices, it actually seemed quite normal and unremarkable to me until Eric mentioned it on the way home. We didn’t stay for much of the meet and greet portion so I can’t tell you if anyone asked him about it.

Celebrate 50 years of manned space exploration

It’s Yuri’s Night, the annual celebration of the 1st manned space flight . This year marks the 50th anniversary of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s historic space flight.

You can learn more about Yuri Gagarin here. You can also find a local Yuri’s Night party – there are more than 400 official parties happening worldwide this year.

If you’re in the DC area, the party’s at Science Club this year instead of out at NASA.

There was a shindig at Artisphere on Saturday, but if you’re just reading about it here, you missed it. Producer Jared Davis described this year’s featured burlesque show as “Star Trek meets Love Boat. I missed it this year despite peer-pressure from many of the participants, so I can’t really comment on whether they succeeded in achieving that lofty goal.

NASA’s Starchild webpage about Yuri Gagarin is so filled with awesome 90s web-design wonder I just have to link to it. Fortunately, there’s an even swankier update still online.