August 13, 2007
The Golden Gals: Pleasure and Paint
Lenora Claire's curatorial endeavor, the "Golden Gals Gone Wild" group show on Saturday night at WOW's storefront gallery, was what we'd call wildly successful, with approximately 2,000 pARTy lovers (we haven't looked at the clicker yet) passing through the doors (sometimes seemingly all at once), picking up great swaths of art: 37 risqué-verging-on-vulgar images of Bea, Betty, Rue, and Estelle in the $50-to-$6,000 range were hung and, as of this posting, 17 have been sold. Again, James St James, in a suit of gold cloth, manned the Ring My Bell live phone-and-video feed (posting tomorrow), chatting with folks who either couldn't get in, or lived in the likes of Utah. LAist was there and has posted video footage. Thairin Smothers' photos follow below, captions follow photos.
(From top: WOW's Tom Campbell with Rue McClanahan and Clay Adkins; Betty White with her creator Mad Puppeteer; Bea Arthur; Estelle Getty; Lenora Claire with her trusty receipt pad and James St James; Burberry designer Mark Van Beek; Lil Kyle; Selené Luna gets a hug; Lenora Claire and Giovanni Ribisi; golden Glen Hanson; WOW window installation artists Eva Thorn and Austin Young; Danny Franzese, Jill Kushner, and St James; Jackie Beat; G-Spot and Andrew Schneider; networking on Hollywood Boulevard; Fade-Dra ogles Gidget Gein's Betty White Power; Jason Mecier; musician Kim Fowley; designer Michael Schmidt: Nathan Tyson, Playboy's Yvette Lopez, Mike Post, and actress E G Daily; PlasticGod and St James; the crowd heats up)
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