Naked Chess: How to Win

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Naked Chess: How to Win

Naked Chess: How to Win

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A month or so later, I went to Barney’s and found Walter sitting at the counter alone with tacos and a beer, and I said, “So, are you going to forgive me?” Duchamp’s influence on art is still felt today, and Babitz’s life and writing have become part of California’s cultural history. Some have drawn parallels between her image and Nude Descending a Staircase while others have compared it to Manet’s monumental Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe, with its casual approach to nudity. “It’s nothing like that,” Wasser sets the record straight. “It’s Hollywood. Girls got naked, man. It was not artistic, it was sexual.” As for Duchamp’s reaction to the beauty before him: “He was very cool.” Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Sac, sac, mate! Solve tactical positions of your playing strength. Boost your calculation skills. Enjoy adrenalin rush with tactic fights! I arrived late, elevenish, though it started at nine and the experts onstage were sunk into flagrant detail about the Arensbergs, who had moved to LA in 1927, and the print dealer in San Francisco who bought Nude Descending a Staircase. Art is filled with criminals.

Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > 8 million games online! Updated weekly, our definitive database has all the latest games. Since Walter had left LA, I’d seen him twice in Washington, but then he’d gone to organize the Menil Collection, in Houston, which is famous for having more money than the mere Smithsonian. He was probably down there, filling Mrs. de Menil’s head with his digressions. The public opening was very crowded and lots of fun. I got myself some red wine and wandered over to a raised platform where Marcel and Walter were playing chess, and my father came by and watched with a cynical expression. (He told me later, “That Marcel is not very good, I could have beaten him on the fourth move. And your friend Walter can’t play at all.”) I never met his parents, but nobody else did either, they never set foot inside the Ferus, the Pasadena Art Museum, or anyplace else they were likely to run into him. They probably were home wondering where they went wrong, why they’d ever allowed him to go into that program for gifted children, ruing the day he set off on that field trip for the Arensbergs’, the only people in L.A. with a houseful of Duchamps. In the years I spent listening to Walter—from 1962 to 1966, when he left L.A. and went to Washington, D.C., where he was with the Smithsonian—I lived in a sea of his digressions. And though I never saw what he saw, I at least learned to see through things and into and under and over what was in plain sight. Being with him, looking at anything, was an experience, and though when he left L.A. I felt he had forsaken us, I now feel grateful we had him for so long, since after the Duchamp show everyone on the East Coast suddenly noticed how brilliant he was and wanted him there, where art was art and people knew a genius when they saw one.In the years I spent listening to Walter—from 1962 to 1966, when he left LA and went to Washington, DC, where he was with the Smithsonian—I lived in a sea of his digressions. And though I never saw what he saw, I at least learned to see through things and into and under and over what was in plain sight. Being with him, looking at anything, was an experience, and though when he left LA I felt he had forsaken us, I now feel grateful we had him for so long, since after the Duchamp show everyone on the East Coast suddenly noticed how brilliant he was and wanted him there, where art was art and people knew a genius when they saw one. From then on, I saw Walter frequently, which meant I was in the midst of much excitement and momentum going public in L.A. One night, we were leaving Musso’s when he looked at his watch and said, “Good, I still have time to get to Bel Air and sell that Duchamp.”

Billy Al Bengston: Larry and I got our suits from thrift stores. We’d raid them. That’s how we got our schmattas. What’s a schmatta? Look it up. L.A. had the best thrift stores then. You could get a suit for a dollar. Otherwise, I’ll just be “and friend.” Anyone who thinks the nude should have been thinner, or in any way different—to them, I’ll be a floating image of “elsewhere.” For Babitz, there was a clear landscape, a world of possibilities to shape as one wished, as one could, and damn the “way things are; damn the way things are supposed to be” and this independence of thought and willingness to follow one’s own path sounds very much like a certain French pioneer artist. Julian Wasser, the photojournalist who took this historic Eve Babitz chess photo, is best known for chronicling L.A.’s celebrity culture. during the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the most indelible images of that time are his. Wasser died on February 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, aged 89. All my ideas about Pasadena—about LA itself—were undergoing a molecular transformation. We were going from Little League to a home run in the World Series. Even my father thought it was a great idea, driving home in the car, although my mother did say, “If you change your mind, darling, it won’t matter.”When the pictures were made, Babitz was a 20-year-old student at Los Angeles Community College. The daughter of a violinist and an artist, and the goddaughter of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, Babitz was already at ease in a sophisticated, aesthetic milieu. She integrated herself into L.A.’s slowly burgeoning art scene, partying with Billy Al Bengston, Ed Kienholz, Kenneth Price, and the men who’d become integral to the California Light and Space movement: Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, and Peter Alexander. Years later, she also became romantically involved with both Ed Ruscha and his brother. Babitz fully embraced her role as an art groupie. No matter what they thought in New York about everyone else being totally out of it and hopeless, on the West Coast things were happening. Ed Ruscha: I met Andy in 1962 in New York at his studio. He, Joe Goode, Gerard Malanga, and I went to lunch at Horn & Hardart’s nearby. Andy was not weird in any way. He liked my book Twentysix Gas Stations because there were no people in the pictures. He had a tremendous force in his personality, and you knew he was for real and would become famous without any doubt. I saw George Herms sitting alone across the room—he was one of the dark-of-the-night Ferus artists. I sat beside him and he said, “You know, Chico is supposed to come to this.” The photo remains a powerful symbol of liberation and self-expression. This image captures a unique moment in time when two individuals from different worlds came together to play a game of chess and, in doing so, created an image whose representation and importance will forever echo. The attitudes and actions of Duchamp and Babitz continue to inspire generations to be bold and true to themselves, and the photo remains a testament to their spirit and the times in which they lived.



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