And
that includes dead artists, outsider artists.
Not exact matches
Anybody who believes in angels flying into a backyard, wearing magic underwear and baptising the
dead (
including Hitler and Stalin), seer stones, golden plates and such nonsense from a con -
artist named Joseph Smith is neither realistic nor stable and pragmatic enough to run a country.
Bolstered by the «do whatever is necessary to follow your dream» motto of his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), Miguel seeks to prove himself in a talent contest but his unorthodox means of obtaining an instrument catapult him and his dog Dante into the Land of the
Dead, where he meets not only Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal), a good - natured con -
artist, but many of his forebears,
including Mama Imelda.
The film's huge and diverse cast
includes: Lauren Cohan (The Walking
Dead), Terry Crews (Expendables, Brooklyn Nine - Nine), Kevin Connolly (Entourage, Friends With Better Lives), Danny Trejo (Machete, Sons of Anarchy, Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Tom Berenger (Sniper, Major Crimes), hip hop
artist Nelly (CSI: NY) and more.
There were certainly plenty of other
artists who have covered the popular Christmas song who director David Dobkin could've chosen from, if he was
dead set on
including that particular tune in his picture.
His previous work
includes Frances McDormand's
artist husband in FARGO, the cross-dressing brother of the title character on The Drew Carey Show, Twisty the Clown on American Horror Story, Lyndon B. Johnson in JACKIE, and a strikingly humane survivor of the zombie apocalypse on THE WALKING
DEAD.
The film forms a collage of famous (Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman) and not - so - famous faces to talk about what the Chelsea means to them and why so many
artists (
including the Greatful
Dead, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan and Mark Twain) have stayed there over the years.
Walter and his son Christopher, an
artist, collaborated on a number of picture books for young readers,
including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel and National Book Award Finalist Autobiography of My
Dead Brother, which Christopher illustrated.
Graphic novels Michael Dougherty, director of Trick «r Treat, talks about Days of the
Dead, the grahic novel he's creating with a team of
artists and writers that
includes Fiona Staples and Mark Andreyko.
Voice - over
artists bring life to the characters
including Marqus Bobesich voicing Sebastian Castellanos having also had roles in horror TV series and films such as The Crossbreed, American Horror Story and Survival of the
Dead, while Meg Saricks voices Juli Kidman having provided additional voices in Life is Strange: Before the Storm and starred in the Nailbiter films, alongside an entire supporting cast who also perform their respective roles to an equally high standard.
Co-founded by Ben Berens, who worked on Kabam's God Father mobile game, and Alex Chu, concept
artist for titles
including Halo Reach, Destiny, Tomb Raider and
Dead Space, the studio plans to make AAA - quality games for mobile devices by finding the balance between console - quality and mobile - appropriate gameplay.
We will be showcasing several show - exclusive vinyl variants
including an extremely limited «Black Pumpkin» vinyl variant for the The Addams Family «Original Music from the Addams Family» 50th Anniversary Edition LP, a «Brains & Guts» vinyl variant for the best - selling The Walking
Dead «Original Soundtrack Vol.1» LP, a «Highland Mists» vinyl variant for the Outlander «Original Television Soundtrack Vol.1» Double LP, three colored vinyl variants for the Book of Life «Original Motion Picture Soundtrack» based on key characters from the hit animated film, as well as a very limited set of five 18» x 24» hand - screened art prints by
artist Andrew Barr, inspired by everyone's favorite breakfast cereal characters and entitled «Cereal Chillers».
The exhibition's curators, Elisabeth Sussman and Elisabeth Sherman of the Whitney and Christine Macel of the Centre Pompidou, chose to round out the collection's context by
including artists whose works are destined for the Whitney as well as the Pompidou, some of whom, Weinberg noted, have their studios in the 10th and 11th arrondissements, the areas afflicted by the worst of the carnage, where poets, dancers, critics,
artists and architects were among the
dead — «a strike against the heart of Paris's creative community.»
Opening: «
Dead Inside» at Bleecker Street Arts Club Here's a strong - looking sculpture show featuring bodycentric work by 18
artists,
including big names like Paul McCarthy, May Wilson and John Chamberlain, as well as younger talent like Sterling Ruby, Tal R, Nick van Woert and Adeline de Monseignat (whose work is pictured).
«We know that some of the most memorable writings on art have taken the form of letters,
including, to name a few examples, Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, Rainer Maria Rilke's Cézanne - inspired missives to Clara Westhoff, and the letters Samuel Beckett sent to Georges Duthuit in the late 1940s about the paintings of Bram van Velde... The theme for this edition of ARTSEEN is, thus, not a theme but a form: the letter — a letter addressed perhaps to an
artist, living or
dead, but, just as plausibly, to anyone else.
Unlike
artists including Robert Smithson and Mark Dion, who brought live or
dead trees into white - cube gallery spaces, Mr. Oliveira has constructed a tree from scratch, using plywood and other materials, as well as wood brought from Brazil.
His classes with John Cage provided the foundation for his Fluxus event scores,
including The Hamlet of Gertrude Stein (1962) and Alice Denham in 48 Seconds (1958), as well as later Happenings such as Yoko Ono Piano Drop (1970), which calls for a «prepared» Piano to be pushed off the roof of a gallery or museum, and Elegy for the Fluxus
Dead (1987), in which the
artist wrapped his entire head in masking tape after reciting the names of deceased fellow Fluxus
artists.
We asked: «Please send us proposals for shows regardless of practical limitations — submissions may
include any number of
artists alive or
dead (or none at all), use any locations on this planet (or off), and assume a budget that is limitless.»
His final film in the series, Cremaster 3 (2002), begins beneath New York City's Chrysler Building and
includes scenes at the Saratoga race track, where apparently
dead costumed horses race through a dream sequence, and at the Guggenheim Museum, where
artist Richard Serra throws hot Vaseline down the Museum's famous spiral ramp.
2010 3 minute wonder series, Broadcast commission, Channel 4 (27,28,29,30 Sept; 18, 19, 20, 21 Oct) 06.2010 Persistence of Vision, FACT, Liverpool, UK 05.2010 Steps into the arcane, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland 05.2010 It has to be this way ², National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen [commissioned solo show] 03.2010 Hands on, (curated by John Hilliard) Galerie Raum Mit Licht, Vienna, Austria 02.2010 Depatterrn, Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway 10.2009 Performance, Film Weekend: The Jarman Award at KunstHalle, Zurich, Switzerland 09.2009 Performance, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK06.2009 Mostravideo, Itau Cultural Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil 02.2009 Altermodern, Fourth Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, UK 01.2009 It has to be this way, Matt's Gallery, London [commissiond solo show] 12.2008 Performance, Event Horizon, Royal Academy of Art [commissioned solo show] 06.2008 Performance, Happy Hand, British Film Institute, London, UK 10.2007 Cinemart, The Auditorium, Rome, Italy 09.2007 Foreign Bodies, White Box, New York, USA 07.2007 Swallowing Black Maria, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam [commissioned solo show] 02.2007 The Believers, Touring show to five cities in Norway, with performances in Stavanger, Forde and Bergen 09.2006 The truth was always there, The Collection, Lincoln [commissioned solo show] 07.2006 UBS Opening, Tate Modern (with Laurie Simmons, Guerilla Girls etc), UK 05.2006 Performance, Human Camera, Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia (solo show) 05.2006 I can't tell you, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool [commissioned solo show] 04.2006 Metropolis Rise, CQL Design Centre, Shanghai; DIAF 2006 @ 798 Space, Beijing, China 04.2006 Performance, Inside, Great Eastern Hotel, Masonic Temple, London, UK 03.2006 Performance, Don't Look Through Me, Y Theatre, Leicester, UK 03.2006 Don't look through me, City Gallery Leicester [commissioned solo show] 03.2006 Performance, Screening at Witte de With / Tent, Rotterdam, Holland 03.2006 John Skies or Sally Swims, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway 02.2006 Wandering Rocks, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London 11.2005 Image in Me, Market Gallery, Glasgow (solo show) 10.2005 Eyes of Others, Gallery of Photography, Dublin [commissioned solo show] 10.2005 Wunderkammer, The Collection (curated by Edward Allington), Lincoln, UK 09.2005 I saw the light, Gasworks Gallery, London [commissioned solo show] 09.2004 Adam, Smart Projects, Amsterdam, Holland 11.2004 Mind the Gap, La Friche, Triangle, Marseille, France 08.2004 Shattered Love, Keith Talent Gallery, London 04.2004 Eating at Another's Table, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone (performance / exhibition) 04.2004 Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London (curated by Paul O'Neill) 03.2004 Performance, A Variety Night of Ventriloquism, FACT, Liverpool (with Ken Campbell, Aura Satz, Andrew Hubbard) 03.2004 Mesmer, Temporarycontemporary, London 02.2004 Haunted Media, Site Gallery, Sheffield (with Susan Hiller, Susan Collins, Scanner, Thompson / Craighead, S Mark Gubb) 09.2003 The Physical World, APT, London, (with Ian Dawson, Katie Pratt) 09.2003 Sphere, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (with Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Laurie Simmons and Allan McCollum) 09.2003 You said that without moving your lips, Limerick City Gallery, Ireland (solo show) 08.2003 Calidoscopio, Museo del Barro, Asuncion, Paraguay (solo show) 04.2003 A Taste for Sham, Studio 1.1, London (with Jo Bruton, Kirsten Glass) 01.2003 The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (curated by Brian Griffiths) 09.2002 History Revision, Plymouth Arts Centre (
including Terry Atkinson) 06.2002 Nausea: encounters with ugliness, London Print Studio 04.2002 Dramatic Events, Kent Institute of Art and Design 03.2002 Photoscoptocus, Camden Lock / Henley - on - Thames (Public commission) 03.2002 Nausea, Djangoly Art Centre (with Dave Burrows, Beagles and Ramsay, Margarita Gluzberg, Mark Hutchinson) 08.2001 Trinity College, Zwemmer Gallery, London 05.2001 Black Bag, Old Operating Theatre Museum (+ monograph BBC programme, «Lindsay Seers,
Artist's Eye», Rory Logsdail) 03.2001 For the
dead travel fast, Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery [commissioned solo show] 02.2001 Molotov, Dilston Grove Gallery, London (with Kirsten Glass, Diann Bauer, Annie Whiles, Helen Paterson, Lisa Fielding Smith) 09.2000 Tow, Camden Lock, Millennium Commission Project (with Tim Head, Diana Edmunds, Janice Howard, Zoe Brown) 10.2000 Assembly, Stepney City, London 07.2000 A Shot In The Head, Lisson Gallery, London 07.2000 Unfound, Chisenhale Gallery, London 06.2000 City Projects, Artomatic, London (with Jemima Brown, Marcel Price) 05.2000 The Double, The Lowry Centre, Salford (with Thomas Ruff, James Reilly and Alice Maher) 05.2000 On the rock, APT Gallery, London (with Annie Whiles, Diann Bauer, Kirsten Glass, Helen Paterson) 09.1999 Nerve, ICA, London (with Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed, Dave Beech, John Isaacs, John Beagles, Dave Burrows, Clive Sall) 07.1999 Quotidian, Paper Bag Factory (curated by Julia Lancaster) 06.1999 Autocannibal, Laure Genillard Gallery, London (solo show) 04.1999 Cabin Fever, Gallery Herold Bremen, Germany, (with Caroline Macarthy and Mairead Maclean) 10.1998 Multiples, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 09.1998 Cannibal, Old Museum Art Centre, Belfast (solo show) 08.1997 Knock, Knock,
Artists Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 11.1996 Stick Your Hands Up, Acorn Storage, Hammersmith, London 10.1996 Ghost, ACAVA Open Studios, Denmark St, London 09.1996 Ad Hoc, London Artforms.
Current group exhibitions
include «Plus Général En Particular,» Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France, «The Quick and the
Dead,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and «Scorpios Garden,» at Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin where the
artist lives and works.
The Christmas table leads to a little riff on Christmas trees that
includes a famous photograph of a
dead tree in the studio of Joseph Beuys, a picture of Beuys» sculpture «Snowfall» (1965), which has three stripped sapling trunks blanketed with felt, and a photo of Bay Area
artist Jay DeFeo (1929 - 1989) under a Christmas tree.
Ms. Siddall said that contemporary art could be redefined as any art that was relevant to us today,
including 20th - century art that had a crucial influence on
artists working today — and even works by
dead artists who were ignored in their own time because their sex, their race or another aspect of their identity did not suit the preferences of the era's art tastemakers.
British
artist Damien Hirst has shocked and surprised the art world with his unusual works,
including glass displays of
dead animals and medicine cabinet sculptures.
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Artists Named as Finalists for Britain's Turner Prize», The New York Times, April 25 Coline Milliard, «A Crop of Many Firsts: 2013 Turner Prize Shortlist Announced», Artinfo, April 25 Sam Phillips, «Former RA Schools student nominated for Turner Prize», RA Blog, April 25 «Turner Prize Shortlist 2013», artlyst, April 25 «Turner Prize Nominations Announced: David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye and Laure Prouvost Up For Award», Huffpost Arts & Culture, April 25 Hannah Furness, «Turner Prize 2013: a
dead dog, headless drummers and the first «live encounter» entry», Telegraph, April 25 Hannah Furness, «Turner Prize 2013: The public will question whether this is art, judge admits», Telegraph, April 25 Julia Halperin, «Turner Prize shortlist announced», The Art Newspaper, April 25 Brian Ferguson, «Turner Prize nomination for David Shrigley», Scotsman.com, April 25 «Former Falmouth University student shortlisted for Turner Prize», The Cornishman, April 29 «Trickfilme und der Geschmack der Sonne», Spiegel Online, April 25 Dominique Poiret, «La Francaise Laure Prouvost en lice pour le Turner Prize», Liberation, April 26 Louise Jury, «Turner Prize: black humour
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Organised by the Museum's Chief Curator David McFadden and Curator Lowery Sims with Assistant Curator Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane,
Dead or Alive features new site - specific installations and recent work by contemporary
artists from around the world,
including Jennifer Angus, Nick Cave, Tessa Farmer, Tim Hawkinson, Jochem Hendricks, Damien Hirst, Alastair Mackie, Kate MccGwire, Susie MacMurray, Shen Shaomin, and Levi van Veluw among others.
Her recent curatorial projects
include Ebony G. Patterson:
Dead Treez, Ray Yoshida's Museum of Extraordinary Values, and This Must Be The Place, an exhibition series exploring the relationship between
artists and their formative places.
The New York — based art collective Bruce High Quality Foundation
included on its list the Dutch conceptual
artist Bas Jan Ader, who, in 1975, was lost at sea and who, like Schrodinger's cat, is therefore neither
dead nor alive.
Participating
artists include Swoon, a noted street
artist who contributed to the pop movement and Alison Mosshart — known for her role as singer / songwriter for The Kills + The
Dead Weather, plus; Ingrid Baars, Meredith Marsone, Angie Crabtree, Kit King, Monica Canilao, Lacy Barry, Karmimadeebora McMillan, Laurel Dewitt, Lala Abbadon, Anne Faith Nicholls, Kristin Farr, Sandra Chevrier and Diana Munoz.
Highlights
include three new acquisitions of major works by Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles
artist who will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale; a somber drawing - cum - sculpture that seems to predict a stormy future, which David Hammons «drew» with a bouncing basketball and graphite; and a solid stainless steel «Sleeping Woman» by Charles Ray, all gleaming
dead weight anchoring the gallery around it.
Partly a rebuke to short memories, it will offer a «connected wandering», in nine professed chapters (
including a «Pavilion of
Artists and Books» and a «Pavilion of Time and Infinity»), involving artists ranging from the missing - and - presumed - dead Bas Jan Ader to the Chinese conceptualist Tao Zhou; from the octogenarian Giorgio Griffa to the barely - thirty Rachel Rose; from the excellently named, transgenerational, relatively sub rosa Mondrian Fan Club — David Medalla and Adam Nankervis — to the ubiquitous Olafur El
Artists and Books» and a «Pavilion of Time and Infinity»), involving
artists ranging from the missing - and - presumed - dead Bas Jan Ader to the Chinese conceptualist Tao Zhou; from the octogenarian Giorgio Griffa to the barely - thirty Rachel Rose; from the excellently named, transgenerational, relatively sub rosa Mondrian Fan Club — David Medalla and Adam Nankervis — to the ubiquitous Olafur El
artists ranging from the missing - and - presumed -
dead Bas Jan Ader to the Chinese conceptualist Tao Zhou; from the octogenarian Giorgio Griffa to the barely - thirty Rachel Rose; from the excellently named, transgenerational, relatively sub rosa Mondrian Fan Club — David Medalla and Adam Nankervis — to the ubiquitous Olafur Eliasson.
It
includes self - portraits, often shown hill - walking; images of boats on the Medway, the estuary where he lives; still lifes with flowers, featuring pots made by the
artist's mother; and paintings depicting the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser,
including works based on police photographs showing the author
dead in the snow.
Rosato's work has received multiple awards,
including the 16th Annual No
Dead Artists: National Juried Exhibition grand prize: a featured solo exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery and has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
She is joined on the short list by Laure Prouvost, 35, a French
artist and filmmaker who works in London, and was nominated for «Wantee,» a performance piece, and several exhibitions; Tino Sehgal, 36, a British - born, Berlin - based
artist, selected for his «This Variation» and «These Associations» exhibitions; and David Shrigley, 44, a British
artist known for his darkly humorous works (
including a stuffed Jack Russell terrier holding a sign that reads, «I Am
Dead»), shortlisted for «Brain Activity,» a retrospective of his drawings, photography, sculpture and film.
Mueck first came to the forefront of the British art scene in 1997 when several of his sculptures
including Dead Dad were shown in the Royal Academy exhibition Sensation: Young British
Artists from the Saatchi Collection.
One of the best - known members of Fluxus was the German
artist Joseph Beuys (1921 - 86)- German Professor of Sculpture at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts - whose works
included the extraordinary performance entitled: «How to Explain Pictures to a
Dead Hare» (1965).
As it has in the past, the selection of
artists includes a multigenerational mix,
including some whose careers span the decades (Robert Ashley, Sheila Hicks, Louise Fishman, Sherrie Levine);
dead artists (Sarah Charlesworth, Gretchen Bender and Tony Greene); and a hefty dose of emerging
artists.
American
artist Taryn Simon's A Living Man Declared
Dead and Other Chapters filled a suite of galleries at Tate Modern with a series on 18 family bloodlines, each with an arresting story,
including someone who was a body double for Saddam Hussein's son.
Recent group shows
include «CO-WORKERS — Network as
Artist», Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Pavillon de l'esprit nouveau, Swiss Institute, New York (both 2015); Place of
Dead Roads, screening with Felix Melia at Centre D'Art Contemporain, Geneva; «89plus marathon», Serpentine Galleries, London (2013).
Weissman's publications
include two books of short fiction, Headless (2004, Akashic) and Dear
Dead Person (1994, Serpent's Tail), as well as an
artist book entitled Paul McCarthy and Benjamin Weissman: Quilting Sessions 1997 — 2008 (Silvana Editoriale).
Ranging through several generations and numerous styles and methods, it
includes works by more than three dozen 20th - and 21st - century
artists, living and
dead....
Her work has also been
included in the group exhibitions The
Artists» Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol (2012); Route 2: Undisclosed Destination, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2011); and Better a Live Ass Than a
Dead Lion, Eli Ridgway Gallery in San Francisco (2011).
Specialist still life
artists included: Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), who is noted for still lifes of
dead game and meat, crammed with religious allusions and moral pointers; Harmen van Steenwyck (1612 - 56), the leading vanitas painter; Willem Claesz Heda (1594 - 1681), an exponent of monochrome banketje; Pieter Claesz (1597 - 1660), a specialist in ontbijtjes (breakfast still lifes); Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606 - 83) and Willem Kalf (1619 - 93), who specialized in decorative still lifes; Samuel Van Hoogstraten (1627 - 78), whose speciality was interiors with deep linear perspective; and Rachel Ruysch (1664 - 1750), arguably the greatest ever female flower painter.
More theoretically inclined Feminist
artists of the late 1980s and 1990s
included: the conceptual
artist Mary Kelly, now Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose work borrows from both Marxism and psychoanalysis; the contemporary German photographer Katharina Sieverding, who uses make - up and face - painting to explore gender borders; the German multimedia
artist Iza Genzken, noted for her assemblages of household objects; the American postmodernist Lynda Benglis, best - known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures; and the English conceptual Helen Chadwick (1953 - 96), noted for her feminist performances and installations, but perhaps best - known for photocopying her body next to
dead animals.
In 2010, the work of the
artist was showcased in a series of major museum exhibitions,
including the exhibition «
Dead or Alive» at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Marres House for Contemporary Culture Maastricht and Ars Electronica in Linz.
Out of the 155
artists in the show 37 are
dead male
artists (a figure that rivals the amount of living women
artists included).
They
include American pop
artist Frank Stella, British
artist Richard Wilson, sculptor Antony Gormley, Oscar ® award - winning producer Lord David Puttnam, Irek Mukhamedov of the Bolshoi Ballet, new media guru Lev Manovich, fashion entrepreneur Victoria Beckham, fashion authorities Colin McDowell, Calvin Klein's Kevin Carrigan and Matthew Williamson, revolutionary Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, production designer Grant Major (Lord of the Rings), American theatre giant and avant - garde director Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach), animator - producer David Sproxton (Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run), actors Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus (The Walking
Dead), and actor - producer Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct).
Turner prize exhibits have
included: a 2 - hour film of the
artist (Mark Wallinger) wandering aimlessly around the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, dressed in a bear suit; a
dead sheep in formaldehyde (Damian Hirst); an installation of a white room with a single light bulb blinking on and off (Martin Creed); an installation of an unmade bed complete with used condoms and tampons (Tracy Emin).
Artists Are Doing It — This year's Manchester International Festival, opening July 4th, will include a celebration of Serpentine co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist's book Do It, featuring famous living artists creating new work based on the instructions of famous dead artists, with such friendly pairings as John Baldessari and Sol LeWitt, and Tracey Emin and Louise Bou
Artists Are Doing It — This year's Manchester International Festival, opening July 4th, will
include a celebration of Serpentine co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist's book Do It, featuring famous living
artists creating new work based on the instructions of famous dead artists, with such friendly pairings as John Baldessari and Sol LeWitt, and Tracey Emin and Louise Bou
artists creating new work based on the instructions of famous
dead artists, with such friendly pairings as John Baldessari and Sol LeWitt, and Tracey Emin and Louise Bou
artists, with such friendly pairings as John Baldessari and Sol LeWitt, and Tracey Emin and Louise Bourgeois.
AK: You were recently
included in the De La Warr's painting show «I Cheer A
Dead Man's Sweetheart» alongside
artists such as Frank Auerbach and Lisa Milroy, how has that been?