Wednesday, April 13 - Artists and Prostitutes

Had breakfast with my new pal Blake at 2nd Avenue Deli (a lot the lights are burnt out and all that remain are 2 N A - which if you read phonetically becomes "tuna", stupid yes but it made me laugh). After pounding bagels, cream cheese, and blintzes right into the left ventricle, we proceeded down to the Dietch Gallery on Wooster street to take in the David LaChapelle retrospective "Artists and Prostitutes" (soon to be a book) that closes this Saturday. I had seen most of the 500 photos which were projected on 3 oversized screens.


Amanda Lapore in performance at Marquee (and yes, she's naked), NYC 2005 

What absolutely killed me though was the Heatherette video that featured a crazed Amanda Lapore (who I've shot twice in the last week) applying pink lipstick (to her entire body) and then riding along the freeway as a hood ornament. Genius!

Something else that was weirdly appropriate is that while we (there was only 3 or 4 of us in the gallery) were watching the show, an acrobat much like those from Cirque du Soleil or Anti-Gravity, came in proceed to rehearse an entire routine on a huge strip of fabric/cloth that was suspended from the ceiling. Go figure!