Cat croacked the other day …
Cat, Alberto Giacometti, edition of eight, 1959
Quoting NYT—Picasso and Giacometti were magical names a year ago, but at Sotheby’s on Tuesday night, works by these artists went unsold. That included a 1938 Picasso portrait that decorated the cover of the sale’s catalog and was being sold by a victim of Bernard L. Madoff, hoping to raise cash. […]
Cat, Alberto Giacometti, edition of eight, 1959
[…] The other big-ticket item — and another casualty of the evening — was “The Cat,” a bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti. Made in 1951 and cast in 1959 in an edition of eight, it was expected to bring $16 million to $24 million, but aside from two bottom feeders, nobody wanted to take the cat home. As with the Picasso, the auction house had tried unsuccessfully to sell the sculpture privately for a higher price than the estimate earlier this year. […]
In case you can't read it, the little tag pointing to Fritz's dead body says «Violence in the Media».
Frustrated by the Fritz the Cat movie which was created without his approval, Robert Crumb has killed Fritz the Cat.
«Fritz the Cat» the video, spring 2010
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Fritz the Cat, by Robert Crumb
After recording a television appearance, Fritz is approached by Andrea Ostrich, a neurotic ex-girlfriend of his, who urges him to have sex with her. At her apartment, he ignores her as he watches the television show, despite her repeatedly threatening to commit suicide. When the show is over, Fritz finds Andrea hiding her head under the chair, and gives her a kick in the pants before leaving. As he walks out of the apartment, she stabs him in the back of the head with an icepick. A caption pointing to Fritz’s dead body, or possibly, a figure timidly cowering behind a door left ajar, reads “violence in the media.” After having killed off Fritz, Crumb never drew another story featuring the character.
[ wikipedia ]
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Alberto Giacometti
Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist Movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some describe it as formalist, others argue it is expressionist or otherwise having to do with what Deleuze calls ‘blocs of sensation’ (as in Deleuze’s analysis of Francis Bacon).
[ wikipedia ]
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The Movie
Producer Edmund Druilhet, is filming a major documentary movie for release in late 2009. His two projects include: “Madoff: Made Off with America,” and “Satan of Wall Street”. His father lost half his retirement with Madoff. His plans are to show a shorter version of the film at Cannes Film Festival in May, 2009. “This is a very important part of history,” Druilhet said. “There’s something really incredible that went on here and has gone on here. I think it’s much deeper than what we’ve seen on the surface. I think that this story is going to continue to evolve.”
[ wikipedia ]
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NY-Times, May 5, 2009, by Carol Vogel [ full article ]
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Source of picts by [ dewil.ch ] (cc) & internet
