Remembering Chantal Akerman on her birthday June, 6 – 2017
via Spotlight Each year Sight & Sound updates their list of ‘The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time’. The huge jury of critics, programmers and academics came to the grand total of 846 while the...
View ArticleDonald Duck, Depp, Drump Fear & Loathing in the White House – 2017
(Elgawimmer) Donald as a cross dresser 1999, charcoal and pastel on paper 10 feet x 14 feet Donald Duck by Joyce Pensanto Happy birthday Donald Duck June 9 1934 Donald Duck debuted – here – Happy...
View ArticleJohn Ashbery and Fairefield Porter – Respect For Things as They are
Fairefield Porter -Portrait of Schuyler and John Ashbery.. 57-58 Fairefield Porter – was born on June 10, 1907 – a painter and an art critic. On Fairefield Porter Respect For Things As They Are by JOHN...
View ArticleRemembering photographer Irving Penn & Gallerist Jack Tilton
(via Irving Penn-From Hells Angels to Hitchcock.. ) Balthus (Photo by Irving Penn) See portraits of Jean Cocteau, Colette, Claude Levi-Strauss, David Smith by Irving Penn (previous post) here. The son...
View ArticleWorld’s End, Schwitters’ Barn, Walcott Museum, T. C Boyle’s Frank Lloyd...
Kurt Schwitters (Dada, sound poetry, the first installation artist) (via) Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn under threat from property developers German artist’s ‘outstanding’ unfinished work...
View ArticleEdit DeAk , Critic & Curator for the Undercovered – (1950–2017)
Edit DeAK Art critic Edit deAk has died. Doyenne of a downtown New York art world that was the playground for many a nascent movement and ideology—punk, Pictures, New Wave, No Wave, and...
View ArticlePeter Weller, Naked Lunch Actor is an Art Historian of Italian Renaissance
Judy Davis and Peter Weller (they were in two films in the past, Naked Lunch and the New Age) Happy birthday Peter Weller! From 2013 interview Peter Weller on feminism, sequels, and more. On Judy Davis...
View ArticleMax, Misery, & Mel Brooks – Summer of Pop Horror – 2017
Noah Tayler as Hitler, John Cusack as an art dealer. Max – trailer The central mystery of Hitler, William Boyd writes in a recent Times Literary Supplement, is: “How on earth could a dysfunctional,...
View ArticleChinese Box, Hong Kong Nostalgia, Photos by Fan Ho -2017
Chinese Box On June 30, 1997, in Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156 years Wayne...
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