December 19, 2006

  • ART WARS continued

    Citizen Stone

    Allan Stone,
    art dealer and collector,
    died at 74 on Friday,
    Dec. 15, 2006.

    From his obituary in
    yesterday's
    New York Times:

    "Sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Citizen Stone' after Orson Welles's
    outsize film character, Mr. Stone was attracted to formal density and
    flamboyance. He was associated with the rise of the junk aesthetic and
    with realist painters whose canvases bristled with paint and details." --Roberta Smith

    The Log24 entry for the date of Stone's death, titled "Putting the X in Xmas," suggests the following picture as a memorial:

    The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix06B/061219-X.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

    Though not bristling
    with paint, the picture
    is, in a sense, realistic.

    It should be noted of the
    obituary by Roberta Smith
    that

    "This is the exact opposite

    of what echthroi do in

    their X-ing or un-naming."

    -- Wikipedia on

    A Wind in the Door