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Olivier Zahm Is Not a Sleaze, He's An Artist

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RollsRoyceRevenge
11/12/09

In reply to Olivier Zahm Is Not a Sleaze, He's An Artist
It's the alternate-universe Keith Gessen & Emily Gould, where he wrote "All Ze Sad Young How You Say? Literary Men," and she scribbled random cantos from Dante on public buildings. #fameballs
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snugbug
11/12/09

@RollsRoyceRevenge: You really do have a thing for Emily Gould, don't you Triple R? Once I realized that, I started looking forward to all your comments, because I adore people fixated on personages that matter little to the rest of the world. We should try to tag-team for a day: You work in an Emily Gould reference in every comment, I accomplish the same with Arthur Cravan. #fameballs
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RollsRoyceRevenge
11/12/09

@snugbug: Better either one of them than Mandie Erikson.

I'm just sayin'.
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RollsRoyceRevenge
11/12/09

@snugbug: Waitaminute! What am I thinking? This is obviously alternate-universe Yaniv Raz and Heather Graham! #fameballs
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justusethisone
11/12/09

In reply to Olivier Zahm Is Not a Sleaze, He's An Artist
Especially for a Parisian he has an amazing career - for those of us who know the late 80s art scene, Zahm's reviews on the new directions underway - which demanded thinking - were intelligent, and he could walk the walk and talk the talk. Just read them and see, the usual places and art journals through the early 90s. But it seems he went for his inner-SergeG., took his motorcycle, love of being pictured, and eye for beautiful models, and made a living out of it - which ironically fits perfectly with a segment of the least-intelligent part of the art world today. Purple is dross, a Euro-fashion excuse for art junkie-slackers to think they are connected in some larger zeitgeist. Zahm though, like SergeG. is now hoping to brand himself above of that, so it seems. Let's see.
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snugbug
11/12/09

In reply to Olivier Zahm Is Not a Sleaze, He's An Artist
I'm sitting here with my chin gently rested on folded fingers, like Rodin's Thinker, pondering what François Truffaut has to do with any of this. #fameballs
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flossy
11/12/09

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What exactly is your beef with Olivier Zahm? That he runs a magazine and wears sunglasses inside? Purple is awesome--about as cutting-edge as something printed out on dead trees can be. If anything, the world needs more Purples, not fewer. #fameballs
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snugbug
11/12/09

@flossy: I'd say blame the olde American puritanism bug, except Google leads us to believe that Ravi Somayia is a gent of the British persuasion. #fameballs
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