The Virgins recently released the music video for “Rich Girls” which they filmed at Lit lair. The video features model Behati Prinsloo losig her dress for the band and other characters such as A-Ron and Dan Colen. It’s a moot point, but the EP version of the song still sounds better than the LP.
Dan Colen is the subject of the latest episode of Art Talk on VBS. It was inevitable. He’s made numerous appearances in Vice Magazine, been a long time friend of Ryan McGinley, turned hotel rooms to “hamster nests” with Dash Snow (and then recreated it at Deitch Gallery), taken his rock sculptures and spray-painted boards to the Whitney Biennial, and hung thrift-store paintings in the Gagosian gallery bathrooms. Watch the show. Take a look.
Gather around the fire because New York Magazine has a story to sell. This week’s tale, Chasing Dash Snow, is the story of Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley, and Dash Snow, artists of the so-called “Bowery School” of art. It’s an interesting read, but the article’s search for an explanation of Dash Snow and his work only comes up short and rehashes a old news, so we’ll just side with IRAK crew’s own review, penned by Kunle: “A great big wack story, unless you’re Dan or Ryan, then you came out smelling like roses.”
Rather than sharing some colorful anecdote about Dash, as we’ve done in the past, we’re borrowing another example of Kunle’s on point wordsmanship from the article.
Kunle was there, too; a camera crew making a show about him for the Sundance Channel trailed his every move. A little white kid in a baseball hat came up to him and Kunle said, “You had a smart mouth, and that’s why you got smacked the other day. I’m Earsnot and you’re Naw: Don’t forget it.” Simon Curtis, out of jail and in a tie-dyed T-shirt, laughed at this.
And we’re laughing too.
