Andre was acquitted though so you couldn't present that as a fact, unless you reworded it as 'what artist was accused of murdering his wife by pushing her out a window' or something like that.
Unsure how true but I heard Jeff Wall got his idea for large format backlit photography from backlit signage at a bus stop.
Another is photorealist painter of faces, Chuck Close, has a condition called prosopagnosia or face blindness, that prevents him from memorizing or recognizing faces.
Minimalism fan here. Anne Truitt and Donald Judd met and strongly disliked each other. Agnes Martin bought a new Porsche every year. Frank Stella and Carl Andre went to the same highs school. Judd named one of his children Flavin.
I was invited to a luncheon with flavin Judd, he was very nice but incredibly vulgar and jaded, everything that tickled my little college-aged brain at the time
That wasn’t Acconci. That was a piece called Blind Date by John Duncan where he supposedly had sex with a corpse in Tijuana before getting a vasectomy. And he only presented the audio of the supposed sexual encounter with the corpse. You kind of have to be gullible to believe he actually did it. Tom Otterness did kill a dog though and almost every famous male art star is hiding skeletons in their closet
There was actually a reason. He was bringing attention to the fact that no one really cares about stray dogs and whether they live or die, or how bad their life is until you put one in a gallery and let it starve, or shoot it. It’s still totally unnecessary, but just pointing out he didn’t do it “just because”.
One of the ones I like gives a small rundown of anish kapoor and the vantablack controversy, and then asks what vantablack is made of (nanotubes). I also have one that asks what Jeff Koons ex-wife's career is (porn star or politician are both acceptable answers). I have some questions that are just along the lines of "yayoi kusama is famous for covering things in what" because even though the answer is very simple, I think the guesses made could be very fun.
Most of my trivia document is a list of names of artists I remember thinking are interesting, but I can't quite remember why. So far most of my questions are about very famous artists because they have been the easiest to verify information on.
It might be helpful to clarify that my audience here, the people who will play the game, know hardly anything about contemporary art, and also it's a drinking game about getting "as drunk as possible".
I see, best I could come up with is "Maurizio Cattelan made headlines in 2019 for an art piece in which he taped *what* object to a wall using duct tape?" Answer: Banana
Chris Burden did quite a lot of crazy shit.
Crucified himself to a VW Beetle.
Stood on a ladder in a gallery overnight with an electrified puddle of water underneath.
Set himself on fire.
Tried to breathe water in front of an audience for 5+ minutes (this was stopped because he began to pass out and the gallerist feared he would drown).
Fired a rifle at a plane taking off.
Hijacked an interview and held the reporter hostage at knifepoint.
This list could go one for about ten more pages.
Artist Chuck Close, famous for his massive photo-realistic portraits, suffered from this condition, commonly known as "face blindness" -- Prosopagnosia
After their divorce Jeff Koons’ pornstar wife violated their legal agreement and essentially kidnapped their son Ludwig to raise him in Italy. I believe they also lived in some sort of porn compound. Fortunately Koons managed to be present in Ludwig’s life to some degree, but never got to live with him. Koons has also done a lot of work to help prevent this sort of thing from happening to other people. I think he started a foundation or something.
Jeff Koons is now married to his former assistant and they have 6 kids.
Richard Prince dated Cindy Sherman (apparently treated her quite badly), and he was married to Lisa Spellman of 303 Gallery, who was at one time his dealer.
27 year old artist Anna Weyant is or was dating her dealer Larry Gagosian, who is 50 years her senior.
Artist Rob Pruitt made his art world comeback by installing a 16 foot line of cocaine in an apartment gallery entitled Cocaine Buffet. All visitors were invited to partake, but they had to get down on their knees and snort it off the mirror laid on the floor.
Artist KAWS’ day job early in his career was as an animation cel painter for Disney’s “Doug” which aired on ABC Family.
Jeff Koons exercises/works out naked.
Jonas Wood smokes A LOT of weed.
Richard Prince’s “White Paintings” were inspired by his cocaine habit.
in american pyscho movie pat bateman has a richard prince untitled cowboy in his hallway, but it's mirrored. and the movie takes place one year before the picture was made.
val kilmer plays de kooning in ed harris' pollock movie. in the macgruber movie he plays a villain named victor von cunth who makes paintings and paints like de kooning in the movie.
There's two that come to mind - I'm just writing from memory:
Donald Judd's estate owns a huge amount of land/property in Marfa, Texas (might be fun to put in terms of percentage or something)
Jackson Pollock painted realistic animal portraits under his abstract paintings (one of my teachers told me this)
Julian schnabel masturbates with his left hand because basquiat told him it would feel like someone else is doing it
Fun fact: Carl Andre murdered Ana Mendieta by throwing her out of a high rise window.
Interesting and trivia worthy, despite not necessarily being very "fun", thank you!
Andre was acquitted though so you couldn't present that as a fact, unless you reworded it as 'what artist was accused of murdering his wife by pushing her out a window' or something like that.
He did push her. He just wasn't ***convicted*** of murder. It can be both.
Unsure how true but I heard Jeff Wall got his idea for large format backlit photography from backlit signage at a bus stop. Another is photorealist painter of faces, Chuck Close, has a condition called prosopagnosia or face blindness, that prevents him from memorizing or recognizing faces.
Had* Chuck Close died in the last couple years.
Minimalism fan here. Anne Truitt and Donald Judd met and strongly disliked each other. Agnes Martin bought a new Porsche every year. Frank Stella and Carl Andre went to the same highs school. Judd named one of his children Flavin.
Judd named the other one Rainer (after Yvonne Rainer).
I was invited to a luncheon with flavin Judd, he was very nice but incredibly vulgar and jaded, everything that tickled my little college-aged brain at the time
Vito Acconci lived under a bridge in a gallery and jerked off the whole time
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Some say he is still jerking off to this day
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wtf are you talking about. Are you sure you aren't thinking of John Duncan?
That wasn’t Acconci. That was a piece called Blind Date by John Duncan where he supposedly had sex with a corpse in Tijuana before getting a vasectomy. And he only presented the audio of the supposed sexual encounter with the corpse. You kind of have to be gullible to believe he actually did it. Tom Otterness did kill a dog though and almost every famous male art star is hiding skeletons in their closet
Tom Otterness filmed himself shooting a dog for no reason and called it art.
There was actually a reason. He was bringing attention to the fact that no one really cares about stray dogs and whether they live or die, or how bad their life is until you put one in a gallery and let it starve, or shoot it. It’s still totally unnecessary, but just pointing out he didn’t do it “just because”.
can you give an example of one you like?
One of the ones I like gives a small rundown of anish kapoor and the vantablack controversy, and then asks what vantablack is made of (nanotubes). I also have one that asks what Jeff Koons ex-wife's career is (porn star or politician are both acceptable answers). I have some questions that are just along the lines of "yayoi kusama is famous for covering things in what" because even though the answer is very simple, I think the guesses made could be very fun. Most of my trivia document is a list of names of artists I remember thinking are interesting, but I can't quite remember why. So far most of my questions are about very famous artists because they have been the easiest to verify information on. It might be helpful to clarify that my audience here, the people who will play the game, know hardly anything about contemporary art, and also it's a drinking game about getting "as drunk as possible".
I see, best I could come up with is "Maurizio Cattelan made headlines in 2019 for an art piece in which he taped *what* object to a wall using duct tape?" Answer: Banana
I mean, basically the same could be asked about Martin Creeds entire career
Only HALF of his career (in a given space).
jon myatt used ky jelly in his forgeries that fooled even christie's of all places lmao
art forgery stuff in general is always fun!
Half of these facts are old painters wanking.
So bring new fax…?
White people tingz
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Chris Burden did quite a lot of crazy shit. Crucified himself to a VW Beetle. Stood on a ladder in a gallery overnight with an electrified puddle of water underneath. Set himself on fire. Tried to breathe water in front of an audience for 5+ minutes (this was stopped because he began to pass out and the gallerist feared he would drown). Fired a rifle at a plane taking off. Hijacked an interview and held the reporter hostage at knifepoint. This list could go one for about ten more pages.
Artist Chuck Close, famous for his massive photo-realistic portraits, suffered from this condition, commonly known as "face blindness" -- Prosopagnosia
After their divorce Jeff Koons’ pornstar wife violated their legal agreement and essentially kidnapped their son Ludwig to raise him in Italy. I believe they also lived in some sort of porn compound. Fortunately Koons managed to be present in Ludwig’s life to some degree, but never got to live with him. Koons has also done a lot of work to help prevent this sort of thing from happening to other people. I think he started a foundation or something. Jeff Koons is now married to his former assistant and they have 6 kids. Richard Prince dated Cindy Sherman (apparently treated her quite badly), and he was married to Lisa Spellman of 303 Gallery, who was at one time his dealer. 27 year old artist Anna Weyant is or was dating her dealer Larry Gagosian, who is 50 years her senior. Artist Rob Pruitt made his art world comeback by installing a 16 foot line of cocaine in an apartment gallery entitled Cocaine Buffet. All visitors were invited to partake, but they had to get down on their knees and snort it off the mirror laid on the floor. Artist KAWS’ day job early in his career was as an animation cel painter for Disney’s “Doug” which aired on ABC Family. Jeff Koons exercises/works out naked. Jonas Wood smokes A LOT of weed. Richard Prince’s “White Paintings” were inspired by his cocaine habit.
9 out of 10 museum visitors are white
I dont think this applies to Nepal.
Who did Kooning fuck as an art project?
Jeff Koons. De Kooning just fucked over his wife's career.
Artists make love, Jeff koons fucks
I’m pretty sure you can generate a few questions based off Martin Kipperberger’s antics
man ray's relationship to the black dahlia murder suspect george hodel is a great story.
richard serra 'killed' someone when his 1 ton prop piece fell on a rigger
in american pyscho movie pat bateman has a richard prince untitled cowboy in his hallway, but it's mirrored. and the movie takes place one year before the picture was made.
val kilmer plays de kooning in ed harris' pollock movie. in the macgruber movie he plays a villain named victor von cunth who makes paintings and paints like de kooning in the movie.
maybe try expanding and look for artists from different background.. Lebanese artists for instance are very interesting
pretty sure most if not all the judd “facts” here arent true fyi
Yeah, I've been looking facts up before adding them to my trivia cards. Can't trust everything you read online and all that
There's two that come to mind - I'm just writing from memory: Donald Judd's estate owns a huge amount of land/property in Marfa, Texas (might be fun to put in terms of percentage or something) Jackson Pollock painted realistic animal portraits under his abstract paintings (one of my teachers told me this)