GOOD MORNING LOWCOUNTRY
The Post and Courier - Charleston, S.C.
Date: Mar 13, 2002
With apologies to our Homeland Defense czar, GMLc made it to the yellow level of excitability Tuesday... Any event with an accordion, a 5-foot python, a red-tail hawk, balloons, tulips and Mayor Joe is sure to suit our taste... oh yeah, and there was free food...
We're talking about the Piccolo Spoleto press conference (the story is on Page 1B).
The promise of food got us there, but The Great Art Caper 2002 made us stick...
ART CAPERS: Piccolo artists Kevin Harrison and John Duckworth appeared at the podium with their Secret Service-type bodyguards (who said they could tell GMLc who they were, but then they'd have to kill us... soooo, we left them alone and picked up the python) and their "lawyer," Isabelle de la Toutec Savante...
She (very French) explained something about stolen art and a smear campaign and lawsuits, was badgered by the press, was interrupted by a maniac, and then urged everyone not to attend her clients' art show on May 25 at 6 p.m. at Fountain Walk on Concord Street...
Yeah, right...
That night, the Underground Artists Association (see Harrison/ Duckworth) will hold an elegant-attire, red-carpet Hollywood premiere of its visual art... Joan Rivers could be there... angry protesters will probably be there... you never know.
It involves dressing up, but it's GMLc's favorite price...
If none of this makes sense, consider the source... The Harrison/ Duckworth axis of art pranksters has been gleefully foisting phony controversies and guerrilla theater on Charleston for some time.
Their "Great Art Caper" can be viewed as something of a follow to last year's "Entropy Show," which transformed the Elan Gallery on Broad Street into a faux media circus.
We could keep talking about this as if it were a serious topic, but as Isabelle what's-her-name said, "Life is what you make of it. The saddest thing is people who wince their way through it."
Or, as William Hurt said in "The Big Chill:" Sometimes you just have to let art flow over you.
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