Slog - Comments on La Femme Niki http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki Because this is the kind of work she made for more than two decades before she died in 2002, this is what a work of art by Niki de Saint Phalle is generally understood to look like: But there's another, far lesser-known Niki de Saint Phalle: Niki the Shooter. According to the Tate Modern's web site, de Saint Phalle started attaching paint-filled bags to backings and shooting them in 1960—and she stopped in 1963, saying, "I had become addicted to shooting."... Copyright 2008 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:30:03 -0800 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:37:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by kinkos i think i just got carpal tunnel just quickly scrolling past all that crap

]]> kinkos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905430 Visual Art Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:32:20 -0800 Comment by Zookeeper Today in hideous art...

]]> Zookeeper http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905436 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905436 Visual Art Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:37:54 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Why can't you be there? You can get a flight direct from Seattle to Manchester, thirty miles away now, or Vancouver to Liverpool if you prefer. It's a lovely city. Tate Liverpool is in Albert Dock, arguably the finest industrial building in the history of the world. I wouldn't go inside, though.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905533 Visual Art Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:26:51 -0800 Comment by brandon i'm no art cricket, but those first 3 sculptures look like they were made by a wealthy suburban housewife [probably alcoholic] with way too much free time on her hands, then sold to another wealthy suburban housewife [probably drunk at the time] at an arts & crafts fair for way too much money. does she make cookie jars, too?

]]> brandon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905621 Visual Art Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:24:25 -0800 Comment by Ari Spool That's an amazing and fascinating art story. Also--that picture of her holding a gun? That is so what I've always wanted to look like--a secretly aggressive skinny little French girl with a huge fucking gun.

]]> Ari Spool http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905627 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905627 Visual Art Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:26:31 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball I love her fountain at the Beaubourg. But a lot of the rest of it is like some shit by a Texas women's college art teacher.

It's all BIG and COLORFUL and SPARKLY.

But that gun shit rocks. Ever watch Bill Burroughs make his gun painting/sculpture/things? Hot shit.

And yeah, ARI SPOOL, chicks with guns...dah-hay-yam!

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905861 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905861 Visual Art Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:43:34 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball And WTF? Is this REALLY a Jen Graves post with a jump?!?!?

Thank you, Baby Jesus!

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905862 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905862 Visual Art Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:44:54 -0800 Comment by Jean-Genet Ramsey Phalle's paintings were so much more Pop than feminist (hence the involvement of Robert, Jasper & suburban housewives in creating her work).

]]> Jean-Genet Ramsey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905917 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/la_femme_niki#c905917 Visual Art Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:37:16 -0800