Slog - Comments on Envision Single Elvis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis This is the piece I referred to earlier, that has been damaged and is in the conservation studio for repairs. Sadly, what you see in the gallery now is just the left panel, and it's going to be that way for a little while. (SAM spokeswoman Cara Egan said this afternoon that conservators are backed up preparing the Inspiring Impressionism show (opening June 19) and won't be able to reinstall it until after then.) Seems as good a time as any to recall how the piece got its belated right panel. I'll be back with that sometime soon.... Copyright 2008 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:43:56 -0800 Fri, 30 May 2008 14:01:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by konstantconsumer they should just leave the dent. i think warhol would like that.

]]> konstantconsumer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035111 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035111 Visual Art Thu, 29 May 2008 17:48:51 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball @1 -- I agree. They left the bullet hole in Shot Marilyn.


]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035117 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035117 Visual Art Thu, 29 May 2008 17:54:05 -0800 Comment by PC Yeah. Art happens.

Warhol would like it, because that's the way he set it up, initially, this was possible, so this is just one of those happeninz.

He'd like it all the other ways it could be damaged, too.

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035137 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035137 Visual Art Thu, 29 May 2008 18:26:59 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me I think Warhol would just tell the Museum to replace the panel.

I didn't even think Warhol actually painted the blank panel. I thought he intended for it to be there, but never actually made it, and agreed to let a local frame shop create it after its sale...

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035146 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035146 Visual Art Thu, 29 May 2008 18:36:00 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me Authenticity was meaningless to Warhol.

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035151 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035151 Visual Art Thu, 29 May 2008 18:44:53 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens I think they should paint a mustache on one or both of the surviving Elvii. Marcel Duchamp would have wanted it that way.

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035157 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035157 Visual Art Thu, 29 May 2008 18:56:36 -0800 Comment by Sigmund Smythe-Penfold @6 Be an artist. Do it. Endow not a faceless "they" with your creative will.

]]> Sigmund Smythe-Penfold http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035169 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035169 Visual Art Thu, 29 May 2008 19:41:56 -0800 Comment by kinaidos The child will no doubt suffer for years from the confusion over being upset at damaging a flat silver canvas, unless of course she is mentally retarded, which is likely enough. Vorpal blades would be much more effective than a little piece of wood molding. Though I guess having little retarded girl blood all over a the canvas wouldn't be much of an improvement over the dent.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035225 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1035225 Visual Art Thu, 29 May 2008 23:12:14 -0800 Comment by Greg Warhol sucks.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1036242 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/envision_single_elvis#c1036242 Visual Art Fri, 30 May 2008 14:01:10 -0800