ArtCall Diary - Entry 7/25/2000
Hammered Brain
"Shattered...Shattered...Shattered... My brains been splattered all
over Manhattan," wailed Mick Jagger on the classic rock station. In our
case it was "Hammered... Hammered... Hammered... My brains been hammered
all over Manhattan". Hammerbrain was in at the Continental on Thursday
the 20th, but we were too hammered to get there. You did get the earlier
pixs of Paul Kostabi at Downtime to compensate
though. We are being hammered by too much content and not enough time to
artcall it all.
Ron
Sosinski had seen the light, he had come within an eyelash of death recently.
While recalling the incident, Sosinski revealed he was still shaken up
after a car crash that occured during his Caribbean vacation. The accident
was minor but it ruptured a vein in his stomach and unknown to Ron, it
was slowly bleeding. When he got back to New York, a larger vein broke
and he began profusely bleeding, losing most of his blood. He managed to
get off a couple of phone calls to his trusty gallery partner Ellen Donahue
and 911. They got him to the hospital in the nick of time. "I was pretty
close to going on to the next life," Ron reported at his 560 Broadway gallery,
"I saw this really nice golden light." Some deft micro-surgery saved the
gallery giant's life. While his recovery hasn't been a bed of roses, he
reports he is in fine health once again. ArtCall is glad Ron is fine for
it would have been sad to lose him.
There was a bounced check notice from Mellon Bank, along with plenty of
shame and blame. Some of it our fault, most of it someone else's. Let's
properly set the stage for how this all came about.
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Late in June, ArtCall pitches investor X.
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The investor X invests and sends a check to headquarters arriving July
3rd.
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I priority mailed the check to the corporate bank account.
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Investor X's check was due to clear by July 12th.
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The landlord is given three checks; a check was drawn (1002) and dated
the 7th of July for $200 and a check for $450 (1003) and dated for the
11th of July. These checks we knew we had covered.
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We also drew a check for $650 (1004) and dated it AUGUST 1ST!. It was for
August's rent.
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A lock was added to the door at headquarters.(See prior ArtCall
for more details)
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Check for $119.07 (1005) written to locksmith on July 10th.
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July 20th, 5pm, get a call from a secretary/office person at the locksmith's
office. The check bounces she informs me. I say "can't be, we have to have
money in the bank! Please redeposit it. We gotta have money in the bank!".
The
landlord had cashed the postdated check for August's rent early. It should
never have been taken as a deposit. Check #1004 should have been immediately
bounced by Mellon Bank. It was not and then the trouble all started. This
wasn't a check that was a few days early or a week early or even two weeks
early. It was 17 days early. And it had been deposited 21 days early. Doesn't
a calendar mean anything anymore? Let's just take the calendar and throw
it all out the window, OK. You can now tell I'm mad (a little). But the
locksmith's check need never have bounced at all. We will have to report
how it all works out. We have sent cash in to make sure that the check
clears the second time through the bank, resent borrowed money back to
Minnesota to handle the cash crunch, and kept our bills on hold.
Looking at the whole picture of things, it's just a tiny story in a big
city. It could have happened to anybody. Too bad it was us this time. Ah
heck, let's get back to art.
Next Issue: Medical Record Department, and we are over the 60% out mark.
Does the Paul Kostabi "ManGold" work on Sotheby's-Amazon go over the $2,000
mark.
Jottings: David Deporis Sidewalk 94 Ave. A 7/26 8-9, Denise Bibro
Gallery 529 W 20 St 7/27 6-8, Pasek Gallery 122 Suffolk 7/27 6-9, Matthew
Courtney's Wide Open Cabaret ABC No Rio 156 Rivington 7/28 9-12, Deepdale
Gallery 248 Broome St. 7/28 6-2, Jennifer Blowdryer Collective Unconscious
145 Ludlow 7/29 11:59-2am, Hello Laura Forde Weiden+Kennedy 7/30 12-5,
Hello Brendan Cotter MeetingMakers.com 7/31 1-6, Pillow Talk Bryant Park
7/31 8:30-10:30, Cooler 416 W 14th St 7/31 9:30-12, Lama Farm Meow Mix
8/1 9-11, Newark Museum Newark NJ 8/2 6-8, Tribes Gallery 285 E 3rd St
8/3 6-9, ABC No Rio Garden Party 156 Rivington 8/6 5-11, Phoenix Gallery
568 B'way 8/8 6-9, Broome Street Gallery 498 Broome 8/12 5-7, Sub-Culture
Gallery 376 Broome 8/12 7-9:30, CBGB's 313 Gallery 8/17 6-10, Hot Rod Tattoo
Show Plainview NY 8/18-20, Broome Street Gallery 8/26 5-7, Deepdale Gallery
248 Broome 9/8 8-12, Harry Druzd Bronwyn-Keenan 3 Crosby 9/9 6-8, All times
PM unless otherwise noted.
photos ©carol
braddock aka red ed, Paul Kostabi
Artwork Permission of Webbittown Corporate Collection,
Follin Gallery
artwork©Unknown
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