{"id":6870,"date":"2011-09-16T09:27:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2011-09-16T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:33:09","slug":"the-great-meltdown-on-view-in-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-great-meltdown-on-view-in-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Meltdown on View in Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pleasure of yesterday\u2019s Thursday Evening Art Opening walk-about in Chelsea was Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese\u2019s show at the Jim Kempner Fine Arts Gallery. I\u2019ve admired their melting word ice sculptures since I first saw them, & was much taken by the superb prints (& video) documenting these events. The <a href=\"http:\/\/us2.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=6e5b4378fbc9f5a3983f838a1&id=25b1774a0d&e=[UNIQID]\">show<\/a> will be up until 15 October, so don\u2019t miss it! The Jim Kempner Gallery \u00a0is situated at 501 23rd Street in Manhattan. Here\u2019s a repro of my favorite print:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6871 lazyload\" title=\"_2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/250;\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Last night\u2019s opening was well attended, to say the least. Among the visitors someone who upholds Democracy on radio right Now, but wanted, I guess, to check out what was melting down. And, as we know, All that is Solid Melts into Air\u2026 Which explains the meltdown of the Middle Class, visible above, but Democracy itself, was that ever that solid\u2026? And, weirdly or not so weirdly, as I type this on Friday morning, the news on the radio is all about the melting ice caps of the Arctic \u2026<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6873\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AMyGoodmanLR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6873\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6873 lazyload\" title=\"AMyGoodman&LR\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AMyGoodmanLR-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AMyGoodmanLR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AMyGoodmanLR-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AMyGoodmanLR.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nora Ligorano, Amy Goodman, Marshall Reese (Photo by Nicole Peyrafitte)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pleasure of yesterday\u2019s Thursday Evening Art Opening walk-about in Chelsea was Nora Ligorano &#038; Marshall Reese\u2019s show at the Jim Kempner Fine Arts Gallery. I\u2019ve admired their melting word ice sculptures since I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[1053,1054,1052],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agitprop","category-art-exhibition","tag-amy-goodman","tag-jim-kempner-fine-arts","tag-ligorano-reese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6878,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}