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Welcome to our *2nd* Twitter reading/performance by Eleanor Antin, part of our #100artists celebration. Follow and respond using #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:00:39

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:00:39

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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 20:02:03

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:02:03

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Questions and responses are welcome during the reading. Eleanor will post responses following the reading. #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:03:10

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:03:10

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And with that, Eleanor will now begin her reading of a story from "Conversations with Stalin" #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:04:57

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:04:57

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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 20:06:56

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:06:56

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Like that time I was given free passes to attend the Art Student's League's annual costume ball. #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:08:23

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:08:23

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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 20:09:34

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:09:34

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...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 20:10:40

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:10:40

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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 20:11:51

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:11:51

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I think I had some white flowers in my hair. I felt like Alice in Wonderland. #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:13:13

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:13:13

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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 20:14:36

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:14:36

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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 20:15:48

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:15:48

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...long and tight fitting emerald green silk stretching around her large curves,... #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:16:56

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:16:56

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...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 20:18:28

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:18:28

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The exuberant hootspa of her dress, that confident in your face butt was the hit of the show. #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:20:02

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:20:02

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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 20:21:05

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:21:05

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So embarrassed by my innocuous dress, so out of my league, I wanted to hide in the bathroom... #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:22:08

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:22:08

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...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 20:23:11

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:23:11

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I was sure everybody thought I was a bourgeois idiot, a stupid kid without a clue,... #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:24:37

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:24:37

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...a demure little girl with the sexuality of a small toad. I looked so innocent and out of place,... #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:25:36

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:25:36

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...a doll in the midst of rakish bohemia. #AntinCWS

Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:26:30

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— Art21 (@art21)Wed, Jan 30 2013 20:26:30

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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 20:28:22

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