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Me and Mr. Robinson, God bless you please, coo coo ca-choo, hey, hey, hey

Me and Mr. Robinson
Me and Mr. Robinson

This is an AI-generated article on Walter Robinson and the New York art scene.

You watch in amazement as half of the Jewish New York art world mourns and expresses condolences over the death of Walter Robinson (74). And you say to yourself, Jesus Fucking Christ!, Holy Tenno!, what will happen in Tokyo when Mario passes away… 🤣

Robinson at the Riviera
Robinson a la Riviera

Things are still looking good for me at the moment at Sechs+Sechs, I’ll easily make it past 69, and the Seventeens…
By then, all of my acquaintances and friends in Tokyo will probably have died. lol

Walter-was-a-wanna-be-artist. With no talent. A pulp painter for being too dumb to understand the technique of acrylic painting. Even more dumb to master oil painting. The more Walter fucked around the more he found out, that he was a hopeless case as a spoiled boy in striped pajamas.

Walter Robinson “Hotel Talleyrand” 1986, Acrylic on bedsheet, 96 x 66 inches, (243.8 x 167.6 cm) @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021, booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
Walter Robinson “Hotel Talleyrand” 1986, Acrylic on bedsheet, 96 x 66 inches (243.8 x 167.6 cm) @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021. Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
American Pulp
American Pulp

Mike Cockrill about Walter Robinson, on February 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM:
He came to my studio a few years ago because he said he wanted me to show him “how to paint a figure.”
Standing in front of one of my female figures he asked, “How do you do that?” I said, “Well, you know how you have cool light and warm shadows or warm light and cool shadows?”
Walter said, “No.”
I asked him, “Did you go to art school?”
He said, “No.”
I said, “Forget about how I do it. You have your own unique way of painting. Do what you’re doing.”

Walter happened to become an influential editor. Every art dealer, curator and artist was suddenly licking his ass. He was “lucky” enough to have hired the unsympathetic, impo + psychopath Charlie Finch (1953-2022; book “most art sucks” 1998) as an American pseudo-critic, who speedily wrote about the New York art exhibitions with a sharp tongue, unscrupulous, merciless, without regard for losses. Molti nemici, molto onore, mussoliniesque.
Also because Walter endorsed, liked Charlie’s smelliness and Hinterfotzigkeit.

Charlie Finch (1953-2022)
Charlie Finch, New York (1953-2022)

Charlie got him the clicky-hits he needed. Plus bad reputation.
Walter’s monetization concept a fiasco.
Unsuccessful Walter was fired.

After his dismissal from artnet, New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, who previously licked Walter’s ass, got him a solo show with his fake Polke-Picabia-Prince-Painting-Copies.

I saw Walter’s paintings in Switzerland at the Art Basel booth of Jeffrey Deitch. Carelessly displayed on the banister of a staircase. A disaster in many ways. Walter’s p・arty practice output is a white joke.

Walter Robinson “Flight Surgeon” 1986-2016, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm) @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021. Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
Walter Robinson “Flight Surgeon” 1986-2016, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm) @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021. Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
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Walter Robinson “The Scientists” 1983, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, (61 x 61 cm) @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021, booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
Walter Robinson “The Scientists” 1983, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm) @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021, Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
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Walter Robinson “Daydreams” 1983, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, (61 x 61 cm) @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021. Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
Walter Robinson “Daydreams” 1983, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm) @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021. Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
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Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles @ Art Basel Switzerland. Walter Robinson paintings, down, left 2021
Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles @ Art Basel Switzerland 2021. Walter Robinson’s 3 paintings, down, left
Art Basel Switzerland 2021, Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles
Art Basel Switzerland 2021. Booth JEFFREY DEITCH New York and Los Angeles

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STILL EDITING and WRITING!

On this rare occasion, there is one more, highly sensitive, aspect worth mentioning in the context of Walter’s influence as the former editor-in-chief for artnet. Walter was married to Lisa Rosen. The New York art scene is or was heavily Jewish. Not so obvious to the outsider, but important to know for the art specialist, who doesn’t want to die as an idiot. The following examples may be illuminating, typical of the subtle demarcation and kunstmafiaesque, clique economy. Japanese artist KAWARA On 河原 温 was advised to change his name to Jewish and behave as a gay man. The extremely successful artist Algerian-French Adel Abdessemed is blocked / “obstructed” in New York, and his exhibitions are panned by Jewish art critics like Jerry Saltz because he is a Berber. For example, the actually occurring exhibition in Amsterdam “Sex: Jewish Positions” is unthinkable in New York by reason of censorship. Maurizio Cattelan’s masterpiece “Breath Ghosts Blind” (2021) will not be shown in New York considering part of the influential Jewish art scene is opposed to it.

Kudos for coining the new term in Western-influenced art history: “Zombie Formalism”. Walter’s analytical summary of the new painting trends among young artists deserves recognition as he pointedly defined a new contemporary art movement.

Had Walter any influence on Nara’s career?
No.
Because Walter remains a Nobody.
He was just a wannabe busybody, a petit bourgeois, from backwoods America.

Married four times, holes fulfilled life in NYC.

Robinson at the Pool
Robinson at the Pool

to be continued….

東京 Tokyo, 20 Feb 2025
Mario A 亜 真里男

今日のおまけ today’s bonus

奈良美智 NARA Yoshitomo @ collector Grazka Taylor’s incredibly chic Bel Air home, Los Angeles, 19 Feb. 2025. New sculptures and paintings at “My Imperfect Self” solo show BLUM Los Angeles.
奈良美智 NARA Yoshitomo @ collector Grazka Taylor’s incredibly chic Bel Air home, Los Angeles, 19 Feb 2025. New sculptures + paintings at “My Imperfect Self” BLUM L.A.

check:
Tokyo Perspective: Chronicle of a Death Foretold regarding a respected American Art Dealer
奈良美智や村上隆を巡って:「FUCK YOU」や「お前、授乳中なんだから、俺のビジネスパートナーにはなれない」
https://art-culture.world/articles/blum/

島田雅彦・亜真里男 10 Feb 2025
島田雅彦・亜 真里男 10 Feb 2025

The more you f*ck around the more you find out。