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Wed, Jan 30 2013 15:55:27

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. art21
    Art21@art21
    Welcome to our *2nd* Twitter reading/performance by Eleanor Antin, part of our #100artists celebration. Follow and respond using #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:00:39
  2. art21
    Art21@art21
    For the next hour, Eleanor Antin will again be taking over @art21 to read from her memoir, "Conversations with Stalin" #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:02:03
  3. art21
    Art21@art21
    Questions and responses are welcome during the reading. Eleanor will post responses following the reading. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:03:10
  4. Big thanks to Eleanor Antin for taking over our Twitter today -- she's about to get started! #AntinCWS
    Art21
    ·
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 11:49:34
  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. art21
    Art21@art21
    And with that, Eleanor will now begin her reading of a story from "Conversations with Stalin" #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:04:57
  7. art21
    Art21@art21
    But you never can tell when your luck will turn and suddenly a sure failure morphs into a splendid win. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:06:56
  8. art21
    Art21@art21
    Like that time I was given free passes to attend the Art Student's League's annual costume ball. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:08:23
  9. art21
    Art21@art21
    I don’t know why I wore what I did. I guess to me it seemed like a costume, a white heavy brocade,... #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:09:34
  10. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...mid calf dress with fine lace appliqué and a bouffant wired petticoat underneath so the skirt swelled out like a bell. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:10:40
  11. art21
    Art21@art21
    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
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:11:51
  12. art21
    Art21@art21
    I think I had some white flowers in my hair. I felt like Alice in Wonderland. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:13:13
  13. art21
    Art21@art21
    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
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:14:36
  14. art21
    Art21@art21
    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
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:15:48
  15. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...long and tight fitting emerald green silk stretching around her large curves,... #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:16:56
  16. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...with a dropped window on her very naked framed butt which she wiggled around as she danced frenetically all night. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:18:28
  17. art21
    Art21@art21
    The exuberant hootspa of her dress, that confident in your face butt was the hit of the show. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:20:02
  18. art21
    Art21@art21
    All the artists wanted to dance with her and I was overwhelmed by my own invisibility in the face of this hedonistic eruption. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:21:05
  19. art21
    Art21@art21
    So embarrassed by my innocuous dress, so out of my league, I wanted to hide in the bathroom... #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:22:08
  20. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...but my mother would have come looking for me and dragged me back and then I would really die of humiliation. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:23:11
  21. art21
    Art21@art21
    I was sure everybody thought I was a bourgeois idiot, a stupid kid without a clue,... #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:24:37
  22. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...a demure little girl with the sexuality of a small toad. I looked so innocent and out of place,... #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:25:36
  23. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...a doll in the midst of rakish bohemia. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:26:30
  24. Eleanor Antin mid-Tweet during her takeover of the @art21 account #AntinCWS
    Art21
    ·
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:10:31
  25. art21
    Art21@art21
    But out of the blue, a group of about 15 or 20 young cadets from the naval academy, Annapolis, I think, came in. #AntinCWS
    Wed, Jan 30 2013 12:28:22

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