{"id":1522,"date":"2009-04-13T07:28:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/younger-than-jesus\/"},"modified":"2009-04-13T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T14:32:19","slug":"younger-than-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/13\/younger-than-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Younger Than Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/08\/fete-accompli-younger-than-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Moment @ NYTimes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Fete Accompli | \u2018Younger Than Jesus\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/marina-cashdan\/\" class=\"url fn\" title=\"See all posts by Marina Cashdan\" style=\"color: #ff3706; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase\" target=\"_blank\">MARINA CASHDAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"w450\" style=\"width: 450px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; margin-bottom: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/blogs\/themoment\/posts\/0408fete2.jpg\" alt=\"Younger Than Jesus\" \/><span>Carolyn Wachnicki<\/span><span class=\"caption\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1em; display: block; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 2px; margin-left: 2px\">At the New Museum, partygoers took a break from the open bar to observe the Chinese artist Chu Yun\u2019s \u201cThis is Lacy,\u201d a sculpture of a live woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What:\u00a0<\/strong>Last night\u2019s invitation-only opening party for the New Museum\u2019s first triennial survey, \u201cThe Generational: Younger Than Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0A free-for-all within the SANAA-designed Bowery home of the New Museum, including the top floor Sky Room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dress Code:<\/strong>\u00a0An artsy fashion stew of Lycra jumpsuits, d\u00e9collet\u00e9 tops, thick-rimmed glasses (that we suspect are nonprescriptive), monochrome ensembles, sequined pants and jackets, and leggings in abrasive colors like aquamarine and magenta.<span id=\"more-9479\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drinks:<\/strong>\u00a0Grolsch lager in the bottle and Nobilo wines out of little plastic cups, alongside guava-colored Campari cocktails topped with an orange slice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>D\u00e9cor:<\/strong>\u00a0Four floors of self-referential young-person art dealing with young-person topics. Think new-media references like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, Internet jargon (e.g., \u201cOMG\u201d); video; a live woman sleeping in bed under a downy white duvet; sculptures of severed hands on a table; and a museum employee (we think) in a blood-stained tracksuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong>\u00a0Ross from Tally Hall, aka DJ \u201cMR. F\u201d, broke out \u201890s tunes, including a throwback to West Coast rappers, and then sprinkling in Ben Harper, Daft Punk and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food:<\/strong>\u00a0N\/A, naturally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gift:<\/strong>\u00a0A free copy of this week\u2019s New York magazine \u2014 ironically with the \u201cFacebook Revolt\u201d story on the cover.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perks:<\/strong>\u00a0A view of the Lower East Side and Nolita from the Sky Room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overheard:\u00a0<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s cool to see what young artists are doing. Ryan Trecartin made those crazy, crazy videos. He\u2019s got two up on the third floor. They\u2019re insane in a great way.\u201d \u2014 James Frey<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/08\/fete-accompli-younger-than-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Moment<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Moment @ NYTimes Fete Accompli | \u2018Younger Than Jesus\u2019 By\u00a0MARINA CASHDAN Carolyn WachnickiAt the New Museum, partygoers took a break from the open bar to observe the Chinese artist Chu Yun\u2019s \u201cThis is Lacy,\u201d a sculpture of a live woman. What:\u00a0Last night\u2019s invitation-only opening party for the New Museum\u2019s first triennial survey, \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}