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Odd Nerdum Thrown in Joint for Tax Jam

August 23rd, 2011 • Paul H-O
From Artinfodotcom via News from Norway August 19, 2011

Odd Nerdrum, the Norwegian artist sentenced to two years in jail for tax evasion, won’t be allowed to keep painting in prison. He’s appealing his sentence, but if it stands, the 67-year-old Nerdrum will have to leave his brushes and easels behind.

Newspaper Aftenposten reported that the Justice Ministry has stressed that convicted prisoners aren’t allowed to continue their business activities while held in custody. For someone like Nerdrum, who has lived off income from sales of his artwork, his passion for painting will thus conflict with regulations governing prison terms.

It’s different for other convicts, who have been allowed to paint, read or conduct approved hobbies as a means of passing the time in jail. Aftenposten noted that convicted robber Johnny Thendrup, for example, sentenced to 13 years in prison for the commando-style NOKAS heist in 2004, took up his old hobby of painting while his case was pending. He has since continued to paint while incarcerated at the Ila prison for high-risk criminals outside Oslo.  more »

B. Wurtz Studio Interview Part 1 from 02/2000

August 9th, 2011 • Paul H-O
The mysterious artist B. Wurtz. Mr. Wurtz has been represented by the Feature Inc. gallery since it's inception in Chicago, and has now been in New York City since the early 1990's. Interviewed by Paul H-O All Rights Reserved Paul H-O 2000

1986: The One Time I Produced an Artist's Book

June 9th, 2011 • Paul H-O
The Man Nobody Killed by David Hammons

David Hammons, The Man Nobody Killed screened spray paint on corrugated cardboard, 8.5"X11", 1986


By Paul H-O

How was I to know David Hammons would become huge? I did not. I never thought about it. I'd met Mr. Hammons at the Horseshoe Bar (or Vazacs) at 7th St. and Ave. B in 1984 or '85 through artist Cynthia Kuebel when she was living on Clinton St. near Delancey. I'd only moved to New York in September of '84 because I'd curated a traveling group multi-media exhibition I named SF/SF (San Francisco Science Fiction) and it was the the season opener at PS 1's Clocktower after being at the S.F. Arts Commission Gallery.   It was a post-art-punk installation of metal mechanical sculpture, some paintings, and some photographs my partner and 2nd co-curator Jo Babcock and I had driven in a rented U-Haul 24 foot truck. Once I got to NY after that trip from San Francisco, I had just enough personal belongings in that truck to live in New York.

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Concrete TV Sample 13

May 11th, 2011 • Paul H-O
Concrete TV is a NYC-based public access show by Ron Rocheleau that combines sex, violence and art. STARK RAVING MANIAC WORK OF BRILLIANCE.  For more information -www.concretetv.com Ron Rocheleau has also been firmly at work with GalleryBeat on and off since the 1990's when we were both Public Access producers. Ron's lurid hypervision of a digital schizophrenia began before this could be done on a computer, so he hasn't bothered to get one at all. I think that is the sign of the artist, at least the compulsory type that works more like a writer, and doesn't draw on everything that doesn't move. He talks a lot. He makes me nuts. He also makes moving pictures into deep streams of neurological wonder. The new box set will put you away for good. H-O

Warhol and Rauschenberg Foundations Call for the Release of Ai Weiwe

May 4th, 2011 • Paul H-O
ai-weiwei
Most of the major museums of the US have signed petitions calling for the release of artist/dissident Ai WeiWei, believed to be incarcerated by the Chinese Government. Who knows? The Chinese have proven to be snowblind to any human rights other than to produce and purchase consumer materials - otherwise all bets are off. The Warhol Foundation is a bit late to the Free Ai Wei Wei groove in releasing their printed actions, but there it is. It's a bit of a no-brainer to take a stand on Wei Wei but it does serve of a reminder that yesterday's hot topics don't go away just because the mainstream media moves to the next thing - and I have to admit dispatching Bin Laden is a BIG DEAL. The following announcement is the unabridged press release from a friendly source at the Warhol Foundation. (H-O)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation join the global arts community in calling for the release of artist Ai Weiwei. The detention  more »

DECODED - Jim Evans V4 (9:54)

April 30th, 2011 • Paul H-O
This is the extreme FX charged version of DECODED edited by Garett Holden. We worked on the early versions until it was clear that we needed to collate the story arc that kept expanding as we went, so then I laid down a 30 minute  story edit and from there created a series of video platforms that told the Jim Evans story, called DECODED, in a variety of  more »

The Moving Story of The Mercer Street Medical Case (3:40 trailer)

April 27th, 2011 • Paul H-O
My version of Dr. House is real. New Documentary by Paul H-O in production - It's about Dr. Daryl Isaacs, the uniquely brilliant and prolific internist, gives me his story of the struggle with the American medical establishment fix - all specialists and no GP's. He demonstrates in check form, the insanity of 'health insurance' companies, a massive patient load and the surprising facts behind his inclusion in the film SUPERSIZE ME by new gen director Morgan Spurlock.. Oh, and he loses the lease on his medical practice and must move in May. It's April now and I'm shooting. "New York the Land of Dissinchantment" Reporting By Paul H-O Rough imaginary trailer for documentary now in production. Test mashup, I don't want trouble I was just borrowing it. 2011 4/24/11 A Filmlike Films and GalleryBeat Media Production Music by Don Chambers of Athens, Georgia