{"id":5889,"date":"2014-08-26T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2014-09-01T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:58:30","slug":"frey-does-arkins-gnomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/26\/frey-does-arkins-gnomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Frey Does Arkin&#8217;s Gnomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/in-the-frame\/2014\/8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from\u00a0The Art Newspaper<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>A million little gardeners<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_main_Repeater1_ctl05_Image1\" class=\"itf-pic-hor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/imgart\/picassomowing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><i>Seedbed<\/i>, 2010, by Elliott Arkin. Photograph: Amherst College<\/p>\n<p><i>A Million Little Pieces<\/i>\u00a0author James Frey is set to turn the artist Elliott Arkin\u2019s series of sculptures depicting famous artists as garden gnomes into a children\u2019s book, due to be published in 2016. Four years ago, Frey purchased one of the resin works\u2014a miniature lawn-mowing Picasso\u2014from the series, titled\u00a0<i>A Peaceable Kingdom<\/i>, 2004-2012, at New York\u2019s Half Gallery, which he co-owned at the time. \u201cIt is one of the most brilliantly funny works of art,\u201d Frey says. So when Arkin later asked the author to write a catalogue essay for his exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice last year, Frey suggested a short story. He wound up with enough material for a book and took an option on the rights from Arkin, who says, &#8220;I am thrilled to see what narrative James creates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/in-the-frame\/2014\/8\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at In The Frame<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from\u00a0The Art Newspaper A million little gardeners Seedbed, 2010, by Elliott Arkin. Photograph: Amherst College A Million Little Pieces\u00a0author James Frey is set to turn the artist Elliott Arkin\u2019s series of sculptures depicting famous artists as garden gnomes into a children\u2019s book, due to be published in 2016. Four years ago, Frey purchased one of [&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":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","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=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}