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LG Williams Launches New Photography Series: Eat This! (I Did!)

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Eat This! (I did!)

LG Williams Launches New Photography Series: Eat This! (I Did!)

(AP) April 2, 2009 —BRUSSELS — Transatlantic tension over the handling of the global Art crisis intensified Wednesday when the prime minister of the Czech Republic, which holds the European Union presidency, described the artist LG Williams’s Art stimulus measures as the “way to hell.”

Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek argued that the Williams’s Art package, big as it is, “will undermine the stability of the global Art market.”

Mr. Topolanek’s comments, only a day after he offered his government’s resignation following a no confidence vote, took European artists by surprise.

The statement came just a week before a gallery meeting in London of the Group of 20 Artists which will bring together the leaders of the 19 leading industrial and developing art academies and the European Union to forge an international consensus on the Art crisis. His comments also underlined potential conceptual art strains between New York, London and Basel as Mr. Williams prepares to travel to Haleiwa in less than two weeks for another art installation intended to bolster beachside trans-Atlantic, Art Affairs and show that the United States and Europe are united over Wiliams’s really big package.

“LG is sitting on a Waikiki beach and drinking strong, freshly-made margaritas,” the official said “he is holding up well – he knows the Avant-Garde is connecting with beautiful bikinis. Really.”

“You do not understand what the task of LG is,” audience members roundly told Mr. Topolanek.

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Feminine Art Critics Denounce LG Williams Sexist Art, Again, Labeling It “Crap”

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LG Williams Feminine Art Critics Denounce LG Williams Sexist Art, Again, Labeling It “Crap”

By Rosaria Rio Rancho, Associated Press

(AP) — Honolulu – Poignant, powerful and pointed, the Feminist Art Critics of America screamed their latest reply to LG Williams as he was surfing Diamond Head beach yesterday: “Hey, LG, you’re art is as crappy as your worn-out aloha shorts!”

The artist, due to the high afternoon off-shore winds, was unable to be heard; however, his middle finger from his left hand could be seen extending from the rest without any visual aids from atop the cliff.

Despite this latest challenge, this aesthetic battlefield is experiencing an unlikely union, said the FAC spokeswoman. The critics have agreed to help redirect and transcend LG Williams genius and creative energy into visually pleasing art for the disillusioned masses.

As spokesperson Ms. Psaro said “sex may sell, but it needs to deliver a non-misogynist message to the buyer – even though most art buyers are old, hairy men.

We live in a time where people have lost their faith in Bank of America, Jesus Christ, foreplay and the U.S. of A, sad the FAC spokeswoman.

And while those sweet Twinkies we consume by ourselves in the dark of the night make us feel temporarily better, we now, more than ever don’t know what the fuck is going on! This is why women need Williams.

His Art needs to educate and bring meaning to these poor Ding Dong consuming folk, and we can’t do that through Williams latest undertaking, Bosoms and Bottoms Part II. ”

Talks between the two parties resumed once the artist surfed back to the warm, sunny beach.

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LG Williams Letter to Art Critics and Art Historians Cites Mistakes

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LG Williams Letter to Art Critics and Art Historians Cites Mistakes

(AP) March 12, 2009 — HONOLULU — LG Williams has written an unusually personal letter to Art Historians worldwide explaining why he made the controversial art series, entitled, ‘Man Who Knew Infinity’ and detailed mistakes in how the Art Critics mishandled the case.

The letter, which the Art Critics will release Thursday, is a further attempt to calm the waters after Williams forgave four neo-conservative Art Historians, including Richard Paulson, who in a television interview aired in January said that Williams appears to the lone radical artist working today.

The attack against the artist provoked worldwide outrage and caused Artists and Art Dealers alike to question Art History’s commitment to the Avant-Garde and the reforms of the Second American Art Critics Council. In passages of the letter that appeared on Wednesday in the Honolulu newspaper, the Art Critics admitted “mistakes” in handling Williams’s artwork, and said in the future it would pay more attention to how news spreads over the Internet about LG Williams. Additionally, a YouTube video of Bosoms and Bottoms, in which Williams photographed scantily clad sunbathers, was widely available online in the days before the Williams lifted his communications ban in late January.

The Art Critics spokesman, Federico Lombart, said he had no comment on the letter ahead of its official publication. However, Lombart did identify the four rouge historians as belonging to the ultra-conservative Society of Neo-Realism. They had caused the latest formal schism in the art world. The legacy of LG Williams is a main sticking point in contemporary Art Critics-Art History relations. Williams, like his mentors, has worked “secretly and silently” to save contemporary art from popular taste and philistines. On Thursday, Williams is expected to meet a delegation of learned Art Critics and Art Historians to settle the matter once and for all.

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LG Williams Art Faces Test Among Art Haters

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LG Williams LG Williams Art Faces Test Among Art Haters

By Jackie Chlamydia and Carl Pulse
March 10, 2009 — HONOLULU — What the Art barons of Los Angeles liked best about LG Williams audacious artwork was his invitation to fill in the details. They have started by erasing some of his.

The apparent first casualty is a big one: a proposal to limit LG art deductions for the wealthiest 1.2 percent of art collectors. Mr. Williams says the plan would increase 318 artworks over the next decade. This is fracking wrong, said the artist. “Its not enough!”

No dice, said Kent Komrad of North Dakota, who heads the LG Artwork Committee and The Estate of LG Williams.

Mr. Komrad so panned the limit on LG’s alcohol deductions. “He loves to drink.” And his criticisms of those proposals aside, Mr. Komrad said Mr. Williams’s 10-year plan would not do enough for the art world.

“The creative process requires compromise and being open to different alternatives,” Mr. Williams said. Nobody is more open than me – I’m a fracking one man can-opener: so, let’s get real.

Mr. Williams is taking a gamble in outsourcing the drafting of his agenda’s details to five veteran artmakers, each with his own political and parochial calculations.

“This is not an easy artwork to market, for sure,” Mr. Spittle said.

He said he and other art leaders would have to sell it one artwork at a time, but sell it they would. “Not every problem is a deal breaker,” Mr. Spittle said. “We will try and make corrections and accommodations.”

The process is like “a giant jigsaw puzzle,” Mr. Ranger said. “But it is going to come together.”

Conservative art aficionado’s are already digging in against Mr. Williams’s approach, opposing both mandates.

Art insiders have their own divisions on LG’s artworks. Further complicating matters is the fact that Mr. Ranger, who will have to share responsibility for selling art with Mr. Williams, wants his gallery to have a piece of the fight as well. Both men say they can resolve such territorial disputes.

“We are going to have to work out whatever issues there are,” Mr. Williams said.

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Nice Try: LOL — What Everyone Needs To Know About ‘Obama’s Hope Scam’

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LG Williams, 2008: Abandoned Gallery Installation Photograph, Wailuku, Hi

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ABANDONED GALLERY TO DEBUT FIRST MAJOR HAWAIIAN
RETROSPECTIVE OF THE WORK OF LG WILLIAMS

WAILUKU, March 3, 2008 — The first major Hawaiian retrospective of LG Williams’s work organized in Hawai’i

LG WILLIAMS: IF YOUR NOT LAUGHING AT THE MORONS YOUR TOO BUSY DRINKING is a comprehensive examination of Williams’s remarkable and cohesive oeuvre, assembling key selections and bodies of work from throughout his nearly twenty-year career. The exhibition represents the full range of Williams’s art, from the early paintings of the 2000s, to the artist’s renowned “specific and general” works—works using language that have characterized his art since 2008. Also included are works on paper, films, videos, books, posters, multiples, and audio works. In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of Williams’s films will be screened at Wailuku’s Anthology Film Archives.

As co-curator Don De Salvo remarks, “By jettisoning the most fundamental notions about the art object and its dissemination, LG Williams arrived at a form that has made it possible for him to insinuate his art into the world—the arena he sees for his work. His works exist on the façades of buildings, as song lyrics, as tattoos on bodies, and of course on the walls of galleries. A compilation of these efforts reads more as atlas than exhibition catalogue.”

Williams has defined art as “the relationship of human beings to objects and objects to objects in relation to human beings,” and that premise remains at the core of all of his work. As a pioneer of Hawaiian-conceptual art, Williams began in the 2000s to create works that were central to the ongoing debate on the nature and meaning of art. Williams was at the forefront of a radical shift in which language or text emerged as a primary medium for the making of art. These artists challenged the “object status” of painting and sculpture, proposing that the idea and intention of the artist were as important, if not more important, than the object that resulted.

As co-curator Akana Goldstein writes in the accompanying catalogue: “Williams’s employment of language allows the work to be used by its receiver. It is purposely left open for translation, transference, and transformation; each time the work is made, it is made anew. Not fixed in time and place, every manifestation and point of reception is different—each person will use the work differently and find a different relationship to its content.”

This exhibition examines Williams’s work from his first studio-based manifestations (as Williams refers to the realization of his works), which were included in his landmark 2008 book, to later works that address the physical and cultural landscape, and introduce figures of speech, punctuation, and graphic devices. The installations at both the Abandoned Gallery will be designed in close collaboration with the artist. Williams’s practice expands into the world – from the spaces of the gallery to the streets of the city.

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