PIECE OF WORK

James Franco is coming to the masses!!  Well.... New York masses.... and,  not him personally but his art work.

Jamie is going to have an installation at the Clocktower Gallery on June 23rd in NYC.

He talked about this during his first General Hospital appearance that this was the beginning of him doing some performance art things, including exhibits:

The folks at "General Hospital" informed me that in three days of filming we backlogged enough material for 23 episodes. There will be one more step. After all of the Franco episodes are aired, my character's storyline will be advanced in a special episode filmed in a "legitimate" New York gallery. One more layer will be added to this already layer-heavy experiment. If all goes according to plan, it will definitely be weird. But is it art?

His solo act is titled The Dangerous Book Four Boys.

The Wall Street Journal details:

"The Dangerous Book Four Boys" addresses boyhood and the "sexual confusion" of adolescence, as Ms. Heiss put it. Short films focus on demolition, showing burning or bullet-riddled structures like a plastic toy home or a large wooden rocket (the exhibition contains originals or replicas of these). Another work explores a romantic encounter between "Star Trek" characters Spock and James T. Kirk.

"I feel like shows or films that deal with kids, they're playing to all of these sexual feelings that you have at that age, but they don't fully admit to it," he said. "So I kind of try to draw that out. The implicit in those shows and books, I try to make it a little more explicit."


The exhibition is arranged to feel like a laboratory of ideas rather than a highlight of individual pieces, according to Ms. Heiss. It's the first solo show she has organized since she returned to work at the space in January 2009. In the 1970s, she used the gallery to display works by artists including Joel Shapiro and Richard Tuttle. She described Mr. Franco's aesthetic as "peculiar and sometimes dark," and did not spare her praise for him. "I think he's going to be a visionary artist for his generation."