THE artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, loved to cook, but he could never quite unbraid his culinary passions from those of artmaking, with sometimes bizarre dinner party results. At one, recalled his widow, Jane Crawford, he cooked a lovely whole sea bass, but it emerged from the kitchen encased in a block of aspic nearly three feet long. He unmolded it, then gave the table a good kick, so that the aspic wobbled wildly and the bass seemed to fishtail upstream.

Funny story.
This is how legends surrounding artists (who are having big museum shows) are born.
And sorry to be a noodge but...Randy Kennedy again. (He of the Pollock fractal analysis.) What type of fish did they call a "sea bass" in the 70s? Do salt water "bass" swim upstream?
- tom moody 2-24-2007 6:16 pm [add a comment]