aka Mabel McNeil "reputed to be the only person ever to have made Philippe de Montebello laugh out loud."
http://www.marciatucker.com/miss.html
She also had a singing group called The Art Mob. I thought this was an interesting quote (from her unfinished memoir):
"So in 1979, I started a small a cappella group. There are lots of closet singers out there, people who used to sing in the high school chorus but haven’t done anything vocally since; or who have beautiful voices but no place except the shower to use them; or who are just looking for way to have fun singing with others. New York is great because all you have to do is want to make something happen and you can invariably find others to join you.
We called ourselves The Art Mob after a song by Terry Allen, a visual artist, playwright, performer, musician and songwriter who had always blurred the boundaries in his work and who didn’t give a damn what anyone thought about the spillover. I was completely devoted to my work and to the artists I spent most of my time with, but I enjoyed singing so much that I always managed to put aside a couple of hours once a week to practice. It must have seemed like an annoying hobby to my colleagues, especially when rehearsals interfered with important openings and dinner parties, but I saw it as critical to my museum work. That’s because being part of the Art Mob made me understand what it was like to try to make something out of nothing, to experience the anxiety and vulnerability of sharing your work with the public and not knowing how it would be received until it was too late. I could put myself in an artist’s shoes because, in some small way, I was one too, even if I wasn’t a very good one yet."
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http://www.marciatucker.com/miss.html
She also had a singing group called The Art Mob. I thought this was an interesting quote (from her unfinished memoir):
"So in 1979, I started a small a cappella group. There are lots of closet singers out there, people who used to sing in the high school chorus but haven’t done anything vocally since; or who have beautiful voices but no place except the shower to use them; or who are just looking for way to have fun singing with others. New York is great because all you have to do is want to make something happen and you can invariably find others to join you.
We called ourselves The Art Mob after a song by Terry Allen, a visual artist, playwright, performer, musician and songwriter who had always blurred the boundaries in his work and who didn’t give a damn what anyone thought about the spillover. I was completely devoted to my work and to the artists I spent most of my time with, but I enjoyed singing so much that I always managed to put aside a couple of hours once a week to practice. It must have seemed like an annoying hobby to my colleagues, especially when rehearsals interfered with important openings and dinner parties, but I saw it as critical to my museum work. That’s because being part of the Art Mob made me understand what it was like to try to make something out of nothing, to experience the anxiety and vulnerability of sharing your work with the public and not knowing how it would be received until it was too late. I could put myself in an artist’s shoes because, in some small way, I was one too, even if I wasn’t a very good one yet."
- anonymous 11-07-2006 11:21 pm