Strand Art Gallery Owened by James Alefantis! Huge Research Thread! Calling All Autistes! (pizzagate)

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Source: https://www.washingtonian.com/2007/05/01/luxury-homes-may-2007/

In DC: Journalist David Brock and restaurateur/art dealer James Alefantis bought a six-bedroom Federal-style rowhouse on California Street in Kalorama for $1.75 million. The house has a second-floor reception hall and three fireplaces. Once a right-wing journalist, Brock changed his politics in the 1990s. He’s the founder of Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, and author of several books, including Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. Alefantis co-owns DC’s Buck’s Fishing & Camping restaurant and the Strand on Volta, a Georgetown art gallery.

https://dcartnews.blogspot.nl/archives/2004_05_01_dcartnews_archive.html https://web.archive.org/web/20161205223502/https://dcartnews.blogspot.nl/archives/2004_05_01_dcartnews_archive.html

The Post's chief art critic, Blake Gopnik delivers his veredict on the DC pandas public art projects as "art."

Rainbow colored pandas... Hmmmm... pedo bear?

** Margaret Boozer** “Land/Marks” is at Strand on Volta Gallery, 1531 33rd Street, NW in Georgetown, Washington, DC until June 5, 2004

Last night it was also good to see Dr. Jonathan Binstock, the Curator of Contemporary Art for the Corcoran, visiting the various new shows in the four Canal Square galleries. A couple of weeks ago I also ran into** Binstock at the Margaret Boozer opening at Strand on Volta gallery**. It is refreshing to see a local museum curator taking an interest in our area artists and galleries!

When hung on the wall, the shiny black forms sometimes resemble a horizontal beehive, but like no bee on Earth would build. Other pieces have a strange sexual association to them, as if we’ve been offered a voyeuristic view of a new sexual organ no one knew existed.

Lastly, she has pushed the envelope even further in one major piece titled “Angle of Incidence.”

In these visceral maps, organic sexual forms, and evolving works, Boozer has created something that is refreshingly new while being pleasant to the senses of visual enjoyment and mental intelligence. In this show, this artist has smashed her “label.”

Spoiler, her art is literally DIRT, old Tar, etc!! LMAO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Boozer

http://www.margaretboozer.com/index.html

http://mag.rochester.edu/aroundmag/jonathan-binstock-named-new-director/

he was a senior vice president and senior advisor in modern and contemporary art for Citi Private Bank’s Art Advisory & Finance group.

An expert in post-World War II art,** Binstock** joined Citi in 2007 as senior vice president and specialist in modern and contemporary art, working with clients and their families in the U.S. and abroad to build personal art collections. He also worked with Citi’s art finance program, ensuring the quality of artworks and assessing their value.

https://priceonomics.com/why-is-art-expensive/

Jonathan Binstock advises some of the world’s top collectors from his post at Citi Private Bank, yet neither he nor any of his colleagues are bankers. He describes their role as helping clients assemble collections that are “culturally significant and more valuable than the sum total of prices paid.” Personal preferences matter as much or more than return on investment. Their clients don’t “buy a painting for $5 million because we think it will be worth 2% more in 3 years,” he says. “And they rarely sell” the artwork they acquire.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120100416.html

"Public Matters, Private Matters" at Strand on Volta, is a small group show of video work addressing, from various standpoints, the meaning of "private" vs. "public."

Why, I wonder, would anyone go to an art gallery to watch this stuff?

The three "Public/Private" artists selected by curator Lucy Hogg (full disclosure: Hogg is married to Post art critic Blake Gopnik) have little in common, other than theme.

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/09/29/31401.html

Curator James Huckenpahler has selected works whose common thread is the representation of mortal bodies in ways that emphasize their gross, material nature.

Frank Day’s images of animal fetishes are part of a larger series set in the West African city of Accra. His earlier work includes a study of the persistence of memory amidst the rebuilding of east Berlin in the 1990’s, and an extended meditation on grace and resilience in marginalized landscapes, a project which involved four years of observation and photography underneath I-95 as it passes through Baltimore. Day’s work is in many public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He will be included in a book on the history of landscape photography being published by National Geographic this fall. Images from his Berlin series were on view recently at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and in Berlin, and will be shown in Great Britain in the spring of 2004.

James Huckenpahler, the curator of “Meat and You,” is a Washington, DC-based artist working primarily in electronic media.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/03/04/the-commodification-of-gerhard-richter/

Jonathan Binstock is the head of Citibank’s art advisory and finance operation — the shop which was famously founded by Jeffrey Deitch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Gopnik

Melissa Gopnik, managing director of the Boston area Rape Crisis Center

After receiving the Knights of Pythias Prize, Shakespeare Gold Medal, the McCullough Latin Prize and, the Commonwealth Scholarship, in 1989 Gopnik began doctoral studies at the University of Oxford.

grew up in Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67.

Gopnik is married to the artist Lucy Hogg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Pythias

The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society [2] founded in Washington, D.C., on 19 February 1864.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Safdie

Moshe Safdie was born in Haifa, Israel to a Syrian Jewish family Among the projects he has designed in** Jerusalem are Yad Vashem** Safdie is the uncle of Dov Charney, founder and former CEO of American Apparel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Charney

sexual harassment lawsuits involving ex-employees

http://lucyhogg.com/home.html

Lucy hoggs art is again, literally trash

2004 Strand on Volta, Washington, DC, Sliding Landscapes, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, ON.

PIZZA THEMED

http://lucyhogg.com/artwork/4051194-Peter-Fischli-David-Weiss-How-to-Work-Better.html

Creepy kids paintings

http://lucyhogg.com/section/165532-The-Complete-Artist-Artist-s-World-1998-2002.html

https://lucyhoggwriting.wordpress.com/

https://lucyhoggwriting.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/a-night-out-at-performa-november-18th-2013/

She went to a naked performance art!

We signed up for the performance, and when we got there we were told we would each have 3 minutes alone in a room with what turned out to be one performer. We signed a waiver which was quite long, the most salient points of it seeming to be that we were not to describe our experience to anyone, after (which is why of course I’m describing it now).

I watched the first two people come in and out intact with no readily interpretable expressions on their faces. I was ushered in, after a loud knock informed the facilitator that the performer was ready. I found myself in a pitch-black room, reminding me of other times I’d been in pitch-black rooms, at other performances.

A voice asked me if I could hear him, and to identify where I thought he was. He then provided some simple directions to navigate around the room, at one point taking my hand, asking me to stand in one corner or the next. In the first corner he asked me to say something, anything I wanted. Realizing he had expectations for me to be more interesting I became bereft of thought. In the second corner he told me to ask him any question, any question at all. I felt very badly because the only question that came to mind was whether he had any clothes on or not. I countered instead with a position of social nicety, and asked him if his background was in Performance Art. He said, somewhat dramatically, “I have no background”. I could feel myself being propelled towards what I knew, now that my eyes had adjusted to the light, was the exit. I stifled the impulse to apologize for being so boring. Feeling summarily dismissed, I had the nasty feeling for the rest of the evening that I’d been on a very unsuccessful date, but at least it only lasted three minutes.

TO BE CONTINUED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMIT!

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PT 2

SEE PREVIOUS THREAD: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1464198

THERE'S THE creepiness of a horror movie to Craig Doty's art, on view at Strand on Volta.

Even Doty's most innocuous images -- and there's a kind of calm, classical innocence to almost all of them -- **feel illicit, if not illegal. Should I be watching this, or reporting it? **

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060900651.html

their poses suggest a parkside sexual tryst,

Sex, violence and the ritualistic elements of both also come into play in Doty's series of "Chiefed" photographs. Reenacting the frat-boy prank of chiefing, whereby a passed-out partygoer's face is painted (like an American Indian chief presumably) with dirty sayings and drawings in permanent marker, most of the photographs from this series are too crude to be reprinted in a family newspaper, but they generally question the sexuality of the victim. The verbal violence implicit, not to mention the prerequisite invasion of personal space, is belied by the placid looks on the subjects' faces. Yet as they imitate the repose of sleep, they resemble death masks as well.

Both pieces, obviously enough, have homoerotic overtones.

https://lucyhoggwriting.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/186/

In Public Matters, Private Matters, the video works of Allyson Clay, Osman Bozkurt, and Milutin Gubash try to make sense of the blurring of public and private space in the 21st century.

video surveillance of a public telephone booth in Paris. People are observed as they move in and out of a transparent glass structure divided into three telephone stations. They wait, they talk, they get impatient, they adapt to the space inside and outside of the booth while they carry on intimate or transactional conversations. It is a study of private gesture in public space. A man is engaged in what appears to be long, contentious monologue. A younger man shifts his weight from side to side, sorting out social arrangements while his girlfriend looks on, tossing her long blond hair back in boredom. A businesswoman waits impatiently, staring at the fully occupied booths, as though her glare could, encourage the occupants to finish their calls.

https://lucyhoggwriting.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/painting-and-other-acts-the-work-of-johannes-zits/

More sexual stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Pythias

Notable Pythian Knights

Eliot Engel, Congressman, New York http://www.nndb.com/people/495/000037384/ A .A. Ames, mayor of Minneapolis[citation needed] Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter and singer Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice[citation needed] Clifford Cleveland Brooks, member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1924 to 1932 from northeast delta parishes[14] William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State and presidential candidate[15] Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator[citation needed] Benjamin Cardozo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice[16] J. J. Carter, state representative, mayor, school board member, and parish police juror from Webster Parish, Louisiana[17] Leopold Caspari, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature[18] Robert Houston Curry, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1888 to 1892 for Bossier Parish[19] Brevet Major Augustus P. Davis, founder of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War [20] U. T. Downs, sheriff of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 1924–1940[21] John W. Grabiel, Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas in 1922 and 1924[22] Leroy Milton Grider (1854–1919), California real-estate developer Warren G. Harding, U.S. President[23] Hubert Horatio Humphrey, U.S. Vice President[24] Bob Jones, Sr., founder of Bob Jones University, prominent evangelist[25] Peter T. King, U.S. Congressman[citation needed] Claud H. Larsen, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly W. Matt Lowe, mayor of Minden, Louisiana 1916-1920, parish police juror[26] Richard Irvine Manning III, Governor of South Carolina[citation needed] Freddie Martin, musician, band leader[citation needed] John Ellis Martineau, Governor of Arkansas, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas[27] Frank McDonough, member of both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature[28] William McKinley, U.S. President[29] Sun Ra, jazz musician, composer, and band leader[citation needed] Alexander P. Riddle lieutenant governor of Kansas Nelson A. Rockefeller, U.S. Vice President[29] Joe Rollins, Texas Attorney General, Houston Asst. City Attorney, prominent private-practice attorney[citation needed] Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President, who joined in 1936, during his presidency[9] Charles Schumer, U.S. Senator[citation needed] William Green Stewart, Louisiana farmer and school board president[30] J. Millard Tawes, governor of Maryland[citation needed] Lee Emmett Thomas, mayor of Shreveport, and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives[31] Lew Wallace, author, territorial governor of New Mexico, major general (U.S. Army), diplomat[32] Francis E. Warren, first governor and longtime senator of Wyoming[citation needed] Anthony Weiner, U.S. Congressman[citation needed] James E. West, first professional Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America[citation needed] Frederick Hinde Zimmerman, banker, businessman, and founder of the Grand Rapids Hotel[citation needed]

This looks like a potential pedo ring right here. anthony weiner, boyscotts, rockefeller, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_and_Pythias

"Damon and Pythias" came to be an idiomatic expression for "true friendship".

The 1889 novel A Marriage Below Zero by Alfred J. Cohen (pen name: Alan Dale) has a young gay couple continually referring to themselves as Damon and Pythias. Soon the upscale social world that they try pass in begins to refer to them with the same term, but as derogatory codeword for 'gay couple.'

http://pythias.org/index.php/junior-order

The Junior Order Knights of Pythias is a recognized auxiliary of the Fraternal Order Knights of Pythias, an organization which affords preliminary training in the principals of Fraternity for our youth, ages 10 through 17

A Junior Order Knights of Pythias Chapter can be formed with 9 or more young men age 10 through 17 years, with an Adult Adviser and a Sponsoring Lodge. By using the "Buddy System", it is easy to acquire the necessary 9 young men. Just ASK a young man to join and bring his friend with him

We need your help to promote and contact good young men in your community to start a Junior Order Chapter. Remember, it takes three things to institute a Chapter, 9 young men ages 10-17, an Adult Adviser and a sponsoring lodge. We need more Junior Order Chapters. It's a win-win situation for everyone. JUST ASK....

jews...

https://twitter.com/BlakeGopnik/status/801169705922863104 https://twitter.com/BlakeGopnik/status/794269254568804352 https://twitter.com/BlakeGopnik/status/793906854770376704

WTF?

https://twitter.com/BlakeGopnik/status/798995382613266434

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Gopnik

Alison Gopnik (born June 16, 1955) is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning. Her writing on psychology and cognitive science has appeared in Science, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, New Scientist, Slate and others.[1] Her body of work also includes four books and over 100 journal articles. She has frequently appeared on TV and radio including The Charlie Rose Show and The Colbert Report. Slate writes of Gopnik, "One of the most prominent researchers in the field, Gopnik is also one of the finest writers, with a special gift for relating scientific research to the questions that parents and others most want answered. This is where to go if you want to get into the head of a baby."[2] Gopnik is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, sharing the Mind & Matter column with Robert Sapolsky on alternating Saturdays.[3]

Gopnik is an authority on the philosophy of mind and a preeminent developmental psychologist.

Who is Craig Doty? Cannot find anything. Seems like a made up name.

WTF?

http://www.superluckyland.com/downloads/hardboiledcomputercrimes.pdf http://www.superluckyland.com/downloads/Troyer_cat.pdf

http://www.superluckyland.com/downloads/STRM_cat.pdf

http://www.superluckyland.com/downloads/MP_BOOK_electronic.pdf

“Remember that these are mostly brains ravaged by antisocial
and mindless pleasures.”

GET THIS! THANKS TO JAMES ALEFANTIS!

thanks all at Adamson Editions Kenseth Armstead & Marysia Woroniecka Ken Ashton Colby Caldwell all at Chrome Frank Day Raoul Diaz, Valé & all at Avé Maria Jason Gubbiotti & Corinne Charpentier **>Carole Greenwood & James Alefantis ** all at Hemphill Fine Arts James & Victoria Huckenpahler Ian Monsma & Elisabetta Vidoli Brigitte Reyes & Mills Davis Casey Smith Jody Tavss

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