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Art Net: The Life and Times of Walter Robinson by Andrew Russeth, The Observer

Paul H-O — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:17:24 +0000

New feature on the wily and wooly star of GalleryBeat Television, the artist, critic, editor of artnet.com magazine. Walter has been a good friend since 1988 and this is a very complex matrix of sources. The article itself reminds me a good cubist painting, like a Braque, an image I wouldn’t expect at all. I may change my mind, but for now I’m happy that comprehensive
attention is being paid to the eminent Walter (Mike) Robinson.

Classic GBTV Seedy Television, Beautiful People

Paul H-O — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:10:32 +0000

Episode 75 Part 3 of 3 (a really wonderful moment with missed Pat Hearn, Kristin Bowler in the bumper, fun)
A long time ago, in the distant year 1994, an art fair started by medium sized art dealers Pat Hearn, Colin De Land, and Lisa Spellman started an art fair in the the historically seedy Gramercy Hotel. That is it I can’t repeat it. It’s all in 2 and 3.

Classic GalleryBeat Television – Gramercy Art Fair, Cathy Speaks Frankly

Paul H-O — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:55:22 +0000

Episode 75 Part 1 of 3 (First time we meet Tracey Emin, empty room, unknown, chilly dealer bloke, can’t take a joke) lol
Same copy.

A long time ago, in the distant year 1994, medium-sized New York art dealers Pat Hearn, Colin De Land, and Lisa Spellman started an art fair in the the historically seedy Gramercy Hotel, famous for housing rock bands on tour and for it’s piano bar. It was also located right across the street from very tony Gramercy Park, exclusive to the residents of said park, and you still need a key to enter it. This was the beginning of the contemporary art fair in the U.S., and would ultimately become one of the most lucrative trade fairs for art on earth, The Armory Show. I used to look forward to hitting the Gramercy Art Fair, with it’s funky rooms turned into funkier New York and international galleries. Almost everyone had a bathroom show, and there were plenty of galleries we would never see again on the planet. Basically, it was a home-made art fair, on the cheap and using all the creativity artist and dealer could drum up for a 3 day run of fun, and maybe a sale or two.

Classy GalleryBeat Television – Mark De Suvero, Gramercy Art Fair

Paul H-O — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:37:08 +0000

Episode 75 Part 2 of 3 (sometimes I wish I could have had more discretion)

GalleryBeat Live @ The Brooklyn Museum, Yo

Paul H-O — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:09:39 +0000

Time: Thursday, October 6 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: Brooklyn Museum in the Rubin Pavilion (the glass entrance that is fabulous)

200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/4728

With guests Ann Carr, Dr. Daryl Isaacs, Sanford Biggers, Spencer and Kristin Tunick, and Robin Cembalest. Hosted by Paul H-O and Lisa Levy. Music and entertainment will be provided by Pat Daughtery

Cooking with GalleryBeat is a live talk show mixing freeform conversation and performance from art to astrophysics. The taping is live and then slow-burned for broadcast on GalleryBeat.net to click start New York’s fall art season. The show is hosted by Paul H-O, creator of GalleryBeat TV, along with co-host Dr. Lisa Levy, the popular, self-proclaimed conceptual psychoanalyst. Produced by Paul, Lisa and Samantha Schlaifer.

This event is co-produced by BM’s Press Relations and Curatorial Departments with special thanks to Director Arnold Lehman.

GalleryBeat with Tracey Emin @ Lehmann Maupin 2009

Paul H-O — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:34:16 +0000

Tracey Emin and me go back a ways – and whatever people think of her work, they talk about it. And that is more important than merely puffing something up and moving on to the next neutered fashion. Ms. Emin has distinguished herself with a courageous exploration of psyche-exhibitionism and personal history that is done so deftly that she is a visible reminder that an artist can still make people pay attention. She’s done it, she hasn’t a thing to prove.

We still don’t get along, and she still talks to me anyway.
H-O
co-hosted by Tamara Weg and cam by Aimee Graham
All rights reserved H-O 2010 GBM

Photo by Walter Robinson

The Guest of Cindy Sherman Monologue Part 1

Paul H-O — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:40:45 +0000

Part 1:

Before the film had a shape or content I wrote a story script titled GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN based on a real experience that in one night, changed my life, but not necessarily for the better. I then invited a group of of friends and filmmakers to the studio, threw out the script and delivered a monologue about living with Cindy and forgetting what I was doing. Then we made the film and it only took five years. Taped in front of a live audience at Filmlike Studio, Tribeca NY, in 2003.

Paul H-O

Guest of Cindy Sherman – the RAW first monologue by Paul H-O (trailer)

Paul H-O — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:00:25 +0000

Before the film had a shape or content I wrote a story script titled GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN. I then invited a group of of friends and filmmakers to the studio, threw out the script and delivered a monologue about living with Cindy and forgetting what I was doing. Then we made the film and it only took five years. Taped in front of a live audience at Filmlike Studio, Tribeca NY, in 2003.

The Feature Documentary GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN on DVD and download – GalleryBeat.net and Amazon, iTunes, The Sundance Channel, Sky Arts Britain, Trela Media Distribtution

Meet the artists at the Williamsburg 2000 opening

Lisa — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:04:41 +0000

Click on this sentence for video.

Williamsburg 2000 Opening and Afterparty

Dr. Lisa covers the opening and afterparty for the exhibition, which include some insights with Ed Winkleman: WILIAMSBURG2000, a group exhibition of 50+ pioneer artists of that era, curated by Larry Walczak. Video shot by Phillip Buehler. For more information on the show which is up until April 17: http://eyewashart.com/home/

GalleryBeat’s New Opener

Paul H-O — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:19:19 +0000

Garett Holden grabbed ahold of the previous cartoon we patched like our fave jeans and designed a whole new/old opening spot crank up every show and every segment.

You can see Garett’s work on http://www.garettholden.com

1993-95 Whitney Biennial – Outrage and Fun

Paul H-O — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:41:34 +0000

Gallery Beat (now GalleryBeat) really began with the high-powered Whitney biennial of 1993 - if you google that year you will find that it is the most explosive Biennial on record.Race and gender was a big theme and artists with strong political orientation in their work used the Biennial as a platform to vent their provocative ideas. The interweb hadn’t been up to speed (it barely existed) so it was up to print and TV media to go starkers. Which they did. The ‘93 Whitney Bi became the poster child of all that what was wrong with contemporary art and how twisted it was. As far as GBTV was concerned, this was action TV and the best Biennial we’ve ever seen. Check out the Guerilla Girls poster for the ‘93 WhitBi. More of the Whitney show itself is catapulted to the forefront in our film “Guest of Cindy Sherman”…. And the artist that calls Charlie Finch an asshole there is Paula Hayes, as he said in comment.

Classic GB – Big Teeth Chomp Brooklyn Museum

Paul H-O — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:59:10 +0000

The (now) Brooklyn Art Museum is famous for it’s XXL rotunda that generally locates the new art installations and in this case it’s artist Rona Pondick that uses the sprawling space to spread a seemingly indecipherable sculptural miasma. It was called ”Mine”. Thus, we enlist the direct causation of said sculpture, curator Charlotta Kotik, to help us understand the big teeth and funny doodads littering the floor. Ms. Pondick is an artist whose work we are use to looking at on the floor as it were. Ms. Kotik, on the other hand, gives us a lively standup chat about the work that does something to decipher Pondick’s work, though it’s an interesting layer of information that works rather like frosting on a cake of unknown origins. Who cares? Kotik is an amusing intellectual, and it’s an unusual dialogue most people haven’t experieinced – Walter and Paul and the Museum Curator. 1996

Ancient GBTV Blabs Excitably of Art Fair Held in Seedy Hotel

Paul H-O — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:28:22 +0000

Before reality TV and before we had a text generator, we had a high school JD intern named Matt Lenski, the son of two artists, Judy Rifka and Willie Lenski. We take you for a trip into 1994- with a Dancing With The Paintings segment – at Joe Fawbush Gallery (Joe, sadly deceased) and a Karin Davie first solo show. (she is now, sadly, with Mary Boone). Walter shows us the announcement for the first Gramercy Art Fair, which we later attend and bring to the public. They started the art fair craze and it’s been more hellacious ever since. Videotaped by Miroslav Petrovic (now, sadly, deceased)

We then move on to the year 2000 and stick to the paint. Amy Sillman, a painter’s painter and someone whose work is worth grappling with, because a curious art loving public should know Amy Sillman paintings. Brent Sikkema is still alive but under a different gallery name.

In clip 3 we’re back in 1994, in Soho Gagosian with large pattern-like paintings by Philip Taafe. The paintings are large and quite video friendly, and I liked that. We talk to the kid about artists as parents, he says he gets art but we know he won’t be an artist. He’s in his 30’s and is a producer for MTV. We have a nice little chat with Nancy Dwyer and Mary Heilman, this year’s winner of the Guggenheim Art Award for Best Artist.

(Walter and Paul are now, for most, happily deceased)

That 90's Show – Cady Noland @ Paula Cooper 1994

Paul H-O — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:10:10 +0000

This is probably the first heavy duty show by the mythic artist Cady Noland, at the highly visible and well-respected Paula Cooper. Painfully shy, I’d never met her but one day we got a note from here saying that she wanted to contribute an artwork to sell for GalleryBeat, because she watched the show on TV. So I went to her studio, she was very sweet and easy to talk to, and she let me pick a piece. It was an aluminum panel with Patty Hearst holding the rifle she had while helping the Symbionese Liberation Army. That was a crazy stunt for sure. Got them all killed by the Feds but Patty left before the slaughter. Cady continues to work, people don’t know much about her, and I’d like to see her again. Oh and a goof with Holland Cotter doing a bit for us, this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the New York Times.

Crew – Matt Lenski, (16 JD). Walter Robinison , Sarah, (Paula Cooper) Holland Cotter (Joe Smidlap)

The Original Gallery Beat Crew

Paul H-O — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:31:14 +0000

The original GalleryBeat TV crew – about midway through it’s 20th Century life. We’re in Chelsea, the weather is good, we’ve wrapped out the day, and I really wanted a group shot like this because the moment never returns.That turned out to be true for the most part. Walter quit for the third time, I got divorced and moved back into my old art studio which was a disaster, Spencer became a rockstar artist for his gazillion nudes, and Cathy became the main attraction as we plowed on doing GBTV in Chelsea. Chelsea kind of sucks.