{"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&#8217;s Thursday Evening Art Opening walk-about in Chelsea was Nora Ligorano &amp; Marshall Reese&#8217;s show at the Jim Kempner Fine Arts Gallery. I&#8217;ve admired their melting word ice sculptures since I first saw them, &amp; was much taken by the superb prints (&amp; video) documenting these events. The <a href=\"http:\/\/us2.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=6e5b4378fbc9f5a3983f838a1&amp;id=25b1774a0d&amp;e=[UNIQID]\">show<\/a> will be up until 15 October, so don&#8217;t miss it! The Jim Kempner Gallery \u00a0is situated at 501 23rd Street in Manhattan. Here&#8217;s 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&#8217;s 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&#8230; Which explains the meltdown of the Middle Class, visible above, but Democracy itself, was that ever that solid&#8230;? 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 &#8230;<\/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&amp;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&#8217;s Thursday Evening Art Opening walk-about in Chelsea was Nora Ligorano &amp; Marshall Reese&#8217;s show at the Jim Kempner Fine Arts Gallery. I&#8217;ve 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}]}}