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180. Ken Johnson - 2011-01-27 01:05:01 |
Ken Johnson
why would someone use the occasion of the death of a friend to broadcast how much that friend hated someone else? on facebook. i cannot fathom.
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Lori Ellison not to be believed.
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Lauri Lynnxe Murphy That’s pretty awful.
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Tricia Collins sad-
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Judith Braun apparently it was the death of a foe...not a friend.
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Sandra Scolnik I’d like to take this moment to say that I love all my facebook friends....
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Fred Valentine
This may or may not be an insight but I have always dug it’s truth.
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you"
Mark Twain
If this is about Den...nis O then I’ve heard some as well and there are plenty of desperate and frustrated assholes who are jumping on the "I knew him" funeral parade.
It stinks no matter what.See More
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Ken Johnson judith, if the real intention was to leave a stain on the departed, then mission accomplished. ugh.
nice quote from twain, fred.
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David Akiba Are you sure of the authenticity of the post. Beware of devilish imps who love to wreak emotional havoc.
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Judith Braun Ken, maybe the stain will really be on the one who attacks. It reeks of such desperation...which is really a worse legacy than being known to have "hated someone".
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Stephanie Theodore oh, that’s awful. more life, less facebook.
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Abigail Stern unfortunately the internet brings out a lot of nastiness in people.........
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Rocio Rodriguez because there are idiots all around us who have no manners, no sense of decency and respect for others. That is so disrespectful.
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Steven Jagoda OH easy! Because many people are stupid and some just suck!
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Lisa Beck What a thoughtless thing to do.
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Lawrence Swan Maybe because the experience of a loss can lead one to express things that have been held back. Not much of an explanation, I know, but I heard of a family that had a vicious fight at the father’s deathbed when repressed hostilities got loose.
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Nowandthen Barbara Slitkin Why indeed? A senseless act of bravado i thought. How sad.
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Karla Knight unfortunate self-centered passive-aggressive tackiness
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Doug Henders talk about self-destruction...
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David Gibson Sometimes we just want the truth to be told.
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Sandra Scolnik i think that when there is a death you really so see the best in people, and the worst in people
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Liz- N-Val Ken, what puzzles us - NYTimes silence about his life and death..You’re included..
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Leemour Pelli Because that person, and we all know who he is, only cares about himself and his intentions and so called "advancements".. ..and is only interested in promoting himself - and has no shame to promote himself even through the death of a so-called "friend."
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Leemour Pelli actually this person does not know the meaning of the word "friend," as he has created his own lexicon to suit his needs. He is only accustomed to using people to get what he wants, and ironically he will never get it - the fame and success that he wants. . . because he is nowhere near worthy of it nor a true artist. . .
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Liz- N-Val Art world is full of crap, my dear;Let’s drop piousness !
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Leemour Pelli Because that person never got a review by Jerry Saltz or Roberta Smith and hates them himself for that - but instead of having the courage to say so himself - he has projected it on to someone else who has just died. . .
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Liz- N-Val Dear Leemour, Be straight & honest & name their names...
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David Gibson Liz, no one is naming names here. Don’t you get it? Of course we all know who we are talking about.
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Leemour Pelli I have absolutely no problem saying that Mark Kostabi - who this is all about - in case anyone did not know - will do anything to promote himself! that is what his whole soul is about. . . it is pretty empty besides that one dimension that consumes his entire being.
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Leemour Pelli and he will do anything to befriend anyone that can somehow promote him and his "craft," shall I call it that. . .
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Leemour Pelli David, you should not publish that on facebook because it is private. . . and by invite only.
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David Gibson Well I wasn’t invited and neither was my father. You are the queen of private after all. Which artist who professes to be my dear friend has never even asked me to meet them for dinner or a movie?
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Leemour Pelli David - please call me. . . if you can but now bec. I have to leave soon.
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David Gibson I’m busy getting the art stomp finished, and doing any business that I can
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Mark Kostabi
Listen to all this hatred and name calling above. My name is Mark Kostabi. I used to be afraid to name names too, but now I am not. Maybe partially because I lost another friend to the grim reaper and I’m very emotional.
Leemour Pelli, who ...was first referring to me above as "this person" and has now stated my name, was my ex-girlfriend, after being one of Dennis’s. I met her in Dennis’s elevator. Why are you attacking me? What mean thing did I ever do to you? Why don’t you repeat all the nasty things you told me about Dennis when we were going out? Shall I get into details?
Ken; The point of my facebook posts was to point out why your newspaper, "the paper of record," The New York Times, ingnored Dennis’s passing. I can understand why Dennis’s ex-girlfriend Roberta Smith wouldn’t feel comfortable writing something, but why not you? Or Martha? or Karen? Or Holland for God’s sake!? -- The one Times critic that Dennis’s friend Thomas McEvilleys said was worth reading.
Most of us artists spend our whole life trying to create something good or beautiful or meaningful. Then one of you critics walks into a gallery, but only if it’s part of the circuit (meaning they advertise in newspapers and magazines) and half the time write something negative, in effect destroying what the artist was creating. This to satisfy the quota for negative news which someone said sells. As David Gibson accurately intuited above, I was only trying to express the truth. I never had much of an opinion emotionally about Jerry and Roberta, but whan their names came up at one of our lunches, I was struck by his passionate opinion about them and his fearless manner in expressing it. I was just passing on the news. Dennis never asked me to keep his opinion a secret. I was just passing on the news, which the New York Times, your "paper of record," chose not to do in this case.
www.huffingtonpost.com/mat-gleason/art-passing-mark-kostabi-_b_814087.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=1009153,b=facebookSee More
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David Gibson Whenever a major figure passes there is always conflict around the wake of his death. Look at any important figure from history. I am not comparing D.O. to Christ but just look at what happened. The apostles all scrambled and some disavowed him. I applaud Mark’s willingness to speak for someone he admired, and to speak Dennis’ words for him.
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Leemour Pelli have to run maybe you can join me.
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Ken Johnson mark, i think the problem is that you are still around to explain yourself. dennis cannot explain or defend the sentiments that you attribute to him. we have no way of knowing how reliable a witness you may be. and there will be an obit in the times. no conspiracy.
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Leemour Pelli I was never your "girlfriend" Mark and you are a disgusting human being!
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Mark Kostabi What were you doing living in my apartment in Rome?
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Mark Kostabi
@Ken Johnson. I love you too. And I’m glad there will be a Times obit. I hope it’s a good, long one, although there’s no excuse for it being so late. Why would I lie? I have credibilty about my relationship with Dennis. Ask Amy. Ask Pamela... Willoughby. Ask Martin Liu. Ask Thomas McEvilley. Ask any one of Dennis’s true close friends. We are all buddies. Dennis was on my TV show several times. He was at all my parties. We showed at the same galleries. There are tons of photos of us together published in public. I was his Italian translator for TV interviews. There are many records of our business transactions. We were buddies. Amy told me I was his favorite person.
I was actually kind of a Jerry Saltz fan when I brought up Jerry’s name at lunch one afternoon at Mezzogiorno in SoHo, even though Jerry had always reviewed me negatively publicly. Always on TV. Jerry always wanted to be on TV. Ask Paul Tschinkel. I was the first person to get Jerry on national TV. On West 57th. Jerry was the snide critic who said nasty things about me on a special about me. Despite that, I still admired some (some, not all) of the things Jerry wrote and complimented him on those. Dennis Oppenheim was not so kind. When I mentioned Jerry’s name at lunch, Dennis got very passionate about how much he disresepected Jerry and Roberta and he underlined that; "Every serious person in the art world thinks Jerry Saltz is a joke." I actually felt like a fool for taking Jerry seriously hearing these words coming from one of the absolute greatest artists of th 20th and even 21st Century. Now, after seeing Jerry’s recent Glenn Beck-like and censoring behavior on Facebook, I agree with Dennis Oppenheim.See More
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Lucas Natali I didn’t know him, but I’m pretty sure Dennis Oppenheim is roaring with laughter from the grave over all of this fuss!
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Doug Henders @Ken...why are you wearing my bathrobe in Berlin??
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Mike Cockrill This is an amazing art fight -- but I don’t think it is worthy of those involved. There may be a little too much righteousness going on. On the one hand I did wonder why it took so long for the Times to get around to D.O’s obit (Did I miss it?) -- and I do know Mark really cared about Dennis. But Damn. This is getting unnecessarily ugly. And I think Ken has a good point too. Take a breath, kids!
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Jill Clark please let us think about all the incredibly intense amazing crazy wonderful awesome sculptures dennis left for all of us...he was so great...so fucking cool...so fucking cool
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Elisa Pritzker "Timelessness and time. Life and death. Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass..." =Zen Master Rama
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Elisa Pritzker Jerry Saltz on DO == nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/saltz_remembering_dennis_oppen.html |
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178. Paige Satchwell - 2011-01-21 17:57:38 |
| Love your work! |
 177. The Free Advice Man - 2010-12-09 17:36:48 |
| FREEternity! THAT’s THE TITLE! |
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176. Eugenia Bizzaro - 2010-06-07 18:32:28 |
Hi Mark,
It has been years since you spoke at California State University, Fresno, California and Gloria Juan introduced us.
I’m now on the Art Commission for the City of Oceanside, California. I’m still doing art and presently working on a
piece of abstract sculpture. Gloria has been in Georgia and called me and asked me if you were still out there. I knew you were and just dropped in on your website to check out the new stuff. Take care and be good.
Love from So. California, got sand, surf and paint, later~~~~~
Eugenia Bizzaro
Conceptual Artist
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175. DESPO - 2010-06-01 17:55:48 |
| HEY, THANKS FOR HAVING GUEST BAND LOS GATTOS ON YOUR TV SHOW!!!! KOSTABI WORLD IS PRETTY AMAZING!! ID ALSO LIKE TO THANK YOUR BRO PAUL FOR EVERYTHING HE DID FOR US.. EVEN THOUGH WE COMPLETLY F**K’D EVERYTHING UP IN THE END, WERE STILL GREATFULL!!!!!!!!!!!! MANY THANKS DESPO LOS GATTOS 2010 |
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174. - 2010-05-13 07:52:06 |
Hi Mark,
I have the print; Upheaval. It has always given me pleasure and now my mother has it in her home office. Keep up the good work.
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173. Jennifer Forman Coffey - 2010-05-06 06:47:39 |
Dear Mark,
My husband and I were mesmerized by your paintings when we were on our honeymoon on Maui in September 2009. We absolutely fell in love with your work and we look forward to (hopefully) owning a piece one day.
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172. Ron Carpenter - 2010-02-25 22:55:51 |
Dear Mark,
We have actually met a couple of times. Once in San Francisco at a showing and another time in Europe.
Wanted to, briefly share an experience I had today with regard to one of the paintings I have of yours, "The Kiss."
A real estate agent told me that I should remove the art because some potential buyers would find it offensive. I explained that you were one of the most famous American artist alive today and your art hung in some of the best galleries and museums around the world. I then told her to fuck-off and leave my home.
Kind regards,
An art lover
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171. Lauri Eensalu - 2010-01-17 17:51:21 |
Hello,
I am estonian student, who is making a presentation about you Mr. Kostabi. Before I ask some questions, I would like to say, that I have a bad grammar, so I hope you will understand. First of all, how would you describe your artistic production?
Secondly, maybe a little displeasing question, but who makes the sketches, is it you Mr. Kostabi or your employees? Thirdly, what are your priorities - art, money, helping people, fame, Kimberly? Finaly, the last on, it is intresting to know, what do you mean under "Kimberly" is it a real life person, who you like or there is a even deeper meaning?
Best wishes,
Lauri. |
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