Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21 (Again!)

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, artist Eleanor Antin returned for her second takeover of the @Art21 Twitter account, again reading from her memoir, "Conversations with Stalin." This time, things loosened up a bit towards the end.

  1. Welcome to our *2nd* Twitter reading/performance by Eleanor Antin, part of our #100artists celebration. Follow and respond using #AntinCWS
  2. For the next hour, Eleanor Antin will again be taking over @art21 to read from her memoir, "Conversations with Stalin" #AntinCWS
  3. Questions and responses are welcome during the reading. Eleanor will post responses following the reading. #AntinCWS
  4. Big thanks to Eleanor Antin for taking over our Twitter today -- she's about to get started! #AntinCWS
  5. Hello from Eleanor Antin and Art21 staff members: Digital Content Editor @nicolejcaruth (far left); Director of Digital Media and Strategy @jonnymoon (second from right); Director of Education @rflouty (far right); and Associate Producer @IanJForster (behind the camera).
  6. And with that, Eleanor will now begin her reading of a story from "Conversations with Stalin" #AntinCWS
  7. But you never can tell when your luck will turn and suddenly a sure failure morphs into a splendid win. #AntinCWS
  8. Like that time I was given free passes to attend the Art Student's League's annual costume ball. #AntinCWS
  9. I don’t know why I wore what I did. I guess to me it seemed like a costume, a white heavy brocade,... #AntinCWS
  10. ...mid calf dress with fine lace appliqué and a bouffant wired petticoat underneath so the skirt swelled out like a bell. #AntinCWS
  11. I left my long hair hanging straight down my back instead of in my usual pony tail and I wore small red velvet pumps. #AntinCWS
  12. I think I had some white flowers in my hair. I felt like Alice in Wonderland. #AntinCWS
  13. I went with my mother and I think Chaim and Renee Gross. Maybe Chaim got us the invitations. It was a big rowdy crowd. #AntinCWS
  14. The only costume I remember was on a hefty handsome black woman with a loud laugh. Her dress was the hit of the evening,... #AntinCWS
  15. ...long and tight fitting emerald green silk stretching around her large curves,... #AntinCWS
  16. ...with a dropped window on her very naked framed butt which she wiggled around as she danced frenetically all night. #AntinCWS
  17. The exuberant hootspa of her dress, that confident in your face butt was the hit of the show. #AntinCWS
  18. All the artists wanted to dance with her and I was overwhelmed by my own invisibility in the face of this hedonistic eruption. #AntinCWS
  19. So embarrassed by my innocuous dress, so out of my league, I wanted to hide in the bathroom... #AntinCWS
  20. ...but my mother would have come looking for me and dragged me back and then I would really die of humiliation. #AntinCWS
  21. I was sure everybody thought I was a bourgeois idiot, a stupid kid without a clue,... #AntinCWS
  22. ...a demure little girl with the sexuality of a small toad. I looked so innocent and out of place,... #AntinCWS
  23. But out of the blue, a group of about 15 or 20 young cadets from the naval academy, Annapolis, I think, came in. #AntinCWS

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