Neen at Club 11

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Aux Raus playing at the Neen evening

Butt magazine on a Book

Being gay and not reading Butt magazine is like eating pizza without Coca Cola. You miss the point. I am still in Amsterdam and today I got the just launched book of Butt magazine published by Taschen. The Dutch-based magazine about the coolness of homosexuality has been launched 5 years ago and it is made by Gert Jonkers and Jop Van Bennekom. The online version includes some interviews and of course a Butt-head dating section for action and networking. By the way I am Butt-Head n0 4!

A Neen evening in Amsterdam

The afternoon preparation at the restaurant section

Meet-in-a-nice-restaurant

Me Looking at You website overlooking us

Club11 is situated on the top-floor of the Stedeljik museum

Yesterday night at Amsterdam's Club 11 there was a Neen evening and a Meet-in-a-nice-Restaurant at the same time. The dinner and event was put together by Rafael Rozendaal and the event included projections of artworks by Andreas Angelidakis, Rafael Rozendaal, Miltos Manetas, Joel Fox and myself, poetry reading by Nikola Tosic. The space was filled with thousand of towels with the word Neen on it. Also the band Aux Raus perfomed and it was really great.

Fucked Up + Photocopied

My friend Rafael showed me this amazing book today. This book is a collection of frenetic flyers produced for the American punk scene between 1977 and 1985. As the introduction says"this book started with a simple idea and turned into the monster you hold in your hands now[..] Just consider this a celebration of the scene. More than an empty nostalgic gesture, the artwork, the photos shows you that the punk scene is a vast one.."

AngeloSays Carbage Can

Is there something familiar to you on this photo right above? These days I had this idea of bringing AngeloSays logo on Second Life as a garbage can. The piece is located on the front side of the under-construction house that Andreas is designing for us. It is not ready yet and I am still learning how to make sculptures like that but you can have an idea of how it looks or maybe come and empty your trash right there. By the way, a small correction : Blue Boy Bar is not a website (as it appeared on a previous LIFO issue) it is a "real" virtual gay-bar on Second-Life. It is easy to find me there too.

Today in the queeny Amsterdam

Andy Warhol, 1984
"Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands"

The Grace of Jones

An 80's masterpiece by a legend. Thanks to Voltnoi who sent me this today.

Star Quality by Iggy Pop

The Opening at the Baron part 2

Tosh Nakanishi, Mai Ueda and Marc Jacobs's muse Farine Mari-Chan

Boys to men band singer singing acapella after Mai

Mai has provided me more photos of the first days of Le Baron in Tokyo. I got this email from her this morning "tonight was funny, the electricity went down at le baron exept microphone so olympia asked somebody to do accapela and i did, this morning when i woke up i said to tosh that i would want to do accapella songs there, and it happend many good syncronicity these days..." Thanks Mai, Baron sounds like THE place to be!!!

Tokyo report: the opening of Le Baron

Artist and DJ Benjamin Moroe

Toshio Nakanishi with Olympia Le Tan

Mai Ueda in kimono with a spanking poster

Mai with Kasumi Koji

Le Baron is one of the hippest nightclub in Paris. It opened in 2004 by André and his associate Lionel, who previously organised Paris’s most successful raves, is the after-dark address. Stating their desire for a club that depended on neither ‘models nor bottles’, this duo created a space to attract artists, musicians and actors, and in doing so they created the city’s trendiest venue. Yesterday there was an opening party in Tokyo and my friend Mai Ueda went there with her friends. More on Le Baron in few days.

Angelidakis at Naba

Anti-smoking image

When you put the keyword "anti-smoking" on Google Image this is the first image that comes up.

Anathena part II

The bulletin board of Anathena at Deste

Marina Gioti, Rebecca Camhi and Marina Fokidis
at the Velvet magazine party

Vinyl Microstore Radio

The Anathena artists will be hosting a radio programm every Friday and Saturday at the Vinyl Microstore radio station. I will be playing music today between 13:30 and 15:30 (eastern european time) Check this website for a live or get the podcast later today. Direct link to broadcast here

The opening of Anathena

The crowd outside

The fanzine

A cute drawing by Vasilis Botoulas

The Erasers

Andreas is in the house

Daphne Mavrogiorgos avec moi

Artists Foivos Papadopoulos and Marios Perrakis

Right one of the curators of Anathena Marina Fokidis

Avgoustinos Zenakos and Xenia Kalpaktsoglou,
the 2/3 of the upcoming Athens Biennial

 Eirinaios, Tilemaxos and Elisavet

I attach some photos from yesterdays' massive opening of Anathena at Deste Foundation

AnathenaTonight

The Anathena Fanzine

Tonight after 8:30pm Anathena exhibition opens at Deste Foundation in Nea Ionia. I will be showing some of my works. Check for updates later from photos from the opening.

Tsui Design

Andreas is providing me with the best architecture information. One of the most innovative and cool architecture magazines is Mark. This magazine is based in Holland and covers a more visionary and fresh aspect of architecture of today. The 4th issue has a full-page article about Andreas' Cloud house (check my June archive for more on this). Browsing a little more I discovered something very very unusual which sticked on my brain since yesterday. Tsui design is an architecture and design firm based in California. I would call their architecture a mixture of Gaudi meets World of Warcraft. Maybe their buildings look more like videogame than a real videogame. Apart from designing these dreamy houses they also make fashion. Why not? entering their houses in Ralph Lauren is a major faux pas... Check their website here

ArtReview's TOP 100 in the art world

a piece by Piotr Uklanski from the Pinault collection

Art Review has announced it's 100 list of the most powerful people in the art world. It features gallerists, museum directors, artists etc. No 1 in the list is the French collector Francois Pinault (check my Sep archive for his Venetian collection). I dont understand the criteria though. For example why Jeffrey Deitch is on the 40th position and Andreas Gursky is on 22nd?!...is he more influential? Suprisingly low ( no 100) is the website that is responsible for the art we search and see on the web, i.e Google. See below the top 10

1: François Pinault, owner of Gucci and Christies, also owns around 2,000 pieces of contemporary art which he displays in his private gallery in a Venetian palace

2: Larry Gagosian, dealer, five galleries around the world

3: Sir Nicholas Serota, director, Tate Modern

4: Glenn D Lowry, director, Museum of Modern Art, New York

5: Samuel Keller, director of the Art Basel art fair

6: Eli Broad, Los Angeles-based collector and philanthropist

7: Charles Saatchi, collector and gallery owner

8: Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp, co-publishers of Frieze magazine and co-directors of Frieze art fair

9: Bruce Nauman, American artist

10: Jeff Koons, American artist

Click here to check the rest (source the Guardian)

Change sex for free

photo by Nan Goldin

Greek state is in a progressive mood. From now on, if you are a Greek citizen you can change sex with the National Health System financial support. Isn't it very cool ? No need for Casablanca any more. ΖΗΤΩ ΤΟ ΕΘΝΟΣ!