The Libertines - Time For Heroes by Fon Kumuro
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
MOVIE THE FLESH OF THE ORCHID - PATRICE CHEREAU - CHARLOTTE RAMPLING - 1975
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
MUSIC THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART - BELONG - 28 MARCH 2011
The speaker-swallowing guitars that rise up at the start of "Belong" roughly translate to "fuck twee." The new Pains of Being Pure at Heart aren't the same cassette-hissers angling for that anchor spot on your indie valentine C60 mix. Not quite. Bulked up by the sonic tinkering of 1990s alt-rock studio gods Flood and Alan Moulder, these sometime pun-lovers are giving life to their own Siamese Dream, gunning for the Pumpkins at their most pop. And, at this point, they're beating Billy Corgan at the game he invented.
http://www.myspace.com/thepainsofbeingpureatheart
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong by Slumberland Records
HARMONY KORINE WEIRDLY PHOTOGRAPHS URBAN OUTFITTERS - 2011
Known for beautifully abrasive films like Kids and Gummo, Harmony Korine brings his creepy nostalgia to Urban Outfitter’s latest look book. Featuring models that look as though they were abducted from the set of MTV’s Skins, it’s Korine’s trademark mix of pretty and scary that makes UO’s soft preppy appeal pop against the dingy suburban landscapes. With floral patterns, flowing silhouettes and plenty of jeans, UO styles a carefree Midwestern flair that defines college wardrobes across the country. And Korine’s dreamy (nightmarish?) collage work and stark sketches compliment strip off the polish and cuteness. Although Korine has done previous work in fashion (let’s not forget his controversial Proenza Schouler video), his comfort parsing through adolescent angst is what makes these images work.
http://www.harmony-korine.com
Thursday, February 24, 2011
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS - EP "SWANLIGHTS" - 10 APRIL 2011
Antony and the Johnsons will release their four track EP “Swanlights” on 10" April 16th through Record Store Day followed by releases through Secretly Canadian and Rough Trade on April 26th. The EP includes a remix of the title track by Oneohtrix Point Never and two exclusive B-sides.
1 - Swanlights
2 - Find The Rhythm Of Your Love
3 - Kissing Noone
4 - Swanlights OPN edit
Antony Hegary Studio 360 by music lylybye
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home
NAN GOLDIN - SCOPOPHILIA - LE VISAGE ET LES CORPS - PATRICE CHEREAU - LOUVRE PARIS - 2011
Francesco del Cairo - St-Sébastien soigné par Ste-Irène - 1635
Nan goldin - David in bed - Leipzig Germany 1992
Nan Goldin - Clemens in my Hall, Paris 2001.
Siobhan in my bathtub, Berlin, 1992
Théodore Chassériau - Aline Chasseriau (1822-71)
Scopophilia, The love of looking. "La scopophilie consiste à ressentir un désir intense, éprouvé et assouvi par le biais du regard. C'est ce que j'ai compris que je faisais dans ce musée," explique Nan Goldin.
RICHARD PRINCE - AN AMERICAN PRAYER - BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONAL DE FRANCE PARIS - MARCH 29 - JUNE 26 2011
Richard Prince: An American Prayer" at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
March 29 – June 26, 2011
"An American Prayer” is a book of poems by Jim Morrison, who would have traded rock stardom for recognition as a legitimate artistic figure in a heartbeat. Seven years after his death, “An American Prayer” was the name of a posthumous album of his poetry recorded to music by the remaining Doors. On March 29, “American Prayer,” an exhibition of American literature and ephemera from the collection of American artist Richard Prince opens at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Also on view will be artworks by Prince relating to books, an important source of both inspiration and materials for artistic practice, including two never-before-seen examples of his famous “Nurse” paintings from his personal collection.
In a purpose-built structure meant to evoke the wood-shingled houses of l’amérique profonde, Prince displays 40 of his American / English series (sculptures based on the first American and English editions of his favorite works) with 24 Untitled (original)s, which reunite pulp paperbacks with their original cover art. A selection of Prince artwork which derives from and/or pays homage to the book and the mechanically reproduced image – works from the series Publicities, Gangs, Cartoons, and even Hoods – encircle vitrines with treasures from the most important collection of twentieth-century Americana still in private hands.
Finally, a “Reading Room” provides a conceptual tour d’horizon of the complex interactions of art and the text in the digital age. The “greatest hits” of the Prince and BnF collections – precious books and manuscripts from the likes of James Joyce and Louis-Ferdinand Celine you can’t touch without getting arrested – are intercut with livres ireel (imaginary books) and iPads stuffed with Prince’s prolific output of artist's books. Part bibliographic exhibition, part art installation, the show toys with the viewer’s preconceived notions of image and text, while presenting a fascinating taxonomy of American subcultures: cowboys, bikers, hoboes, hippies, and spacemen.
A book collector for nearly forty years, Prince has amassed a remarkable trove of works from what he describes as the “BeatHippiePunk” era: 1949 (the year of his birth) to 1984. It starts with the “Beats” – Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs, for sure, but also Nabokov (whose personal library relating to Lolita Prince owns) and J.D. Salinger. He has a particular faible for Hunter S. Thompson, whose Hell’s Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas figure prominently in the mix; the hugely influential underground cineaste Jack Smith; Mario Puzo, whose manuscript for The Godfather will be on display; Truman Capote, whose letters to the convicted murderer Perry Smith are in the collection and Jimi Hendrix, as well as Robert Crumb and Yoko Ono…and of course Thomas Pynchon, Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, and Terry Southern. Prince has a special interest in a number of American writers better known and loved in France: Richard Brautigan, Philip K. Dick, Jim Thompson, and Chester Himes. Prince’s holdings of letters include Jimi Hendrix’s handwritten letters home to his father while he was in the army, and, later, on the road with Little Richard’s band; Kerouac’s letters to Malcolm Cowley, editor of On the Road; and a plethora of missives from those two incognito novelists, J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon.
This would be an amazing aggregation of Americana from Mr. X, but the fact that it comes from Richard Prince is what makes this uniquely interesting. Prince’s collecting and his artistic practices are hard to separate…so why try?
An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Published by Gagosian Gallery in association with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the catalogue includes text excerpts from many of the aforementioned by books in the artist’s collection as well as essays by exhibition curators Bob Rubin and Marie Minssieux-Chamonard, and rare book collector John McWhinnie.
ECHOES OF SILENCE - PETER EMMANUEL GOLDMAN & SUSAN SONTAG - 1965
Haunted, lonely faces and a magical trip through an art museum in masterpierce of New york underground.
Desperate sexuality, desperate emotions; every gesture and inflection an act of grave import; a film of young adults, infused with a new existentialist humanism, devoid of certainty or illusion. The sharp contrast and graininess of the still indicate the film's distance from slick commercial cinema. A major new talent." - Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art
"His people come to life simply and believably - more believably than most of the people in the Chabrol and Truffaut cinema...the film has a thematic and formal beauty that is remarkable." - Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal
"All the American film-makers we admire came into the cinema young. Now they're old but no one's taking their place. When Hawks started out he was the same age as Goldman and Goldman is alone...There will be other great American film-makers (there's already Goldman, Clarke and Cassavetes)." - Jean-Luc Godard, Cahiers du Cinema
Peter Emmanuel Goldman's rarely screened debut, an underappreciated landmark of the New American Cinema, chronicles the lives of twenty-somethings adrift in New York City, finding tremendous pathos in the smallest moments: a furtive glance across a museum gallery, girls putting on makeup, a stroll beneath the pulsing lights of Times Square marquees. Composed with a lo-fi purity and bereft of diegetic sound, its shadowy images of youthful flaneurs are paired with evocatively hand-painted title cards and a dynamic soundtrack drawn from the artist's LPs that, when combined, conjure up a ballad of sexual dependency like none other.
"Peter Goldman is the most exciting new filmmaker in recent years. Echoes of Silence, his first film, is a stunning piece of work." - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag - Elizabeth Peyton
Susan Sontag - Henri Cartier-Bresson
In a consumer society, even the most well-intentioned and properly captioned work of photographers issues in the discovery of beauty. Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag - Duet for Cannibals - Lars Swanberg
Nan Goldin - The Ballad of sexual Dependency.
DIARY LYLYBYE - HOLY - 2011
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe
SPELL
Patti Smith - Peace And Noise.
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
and asshole holy!
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an
angel!
The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is
holy as you my soul are holy!
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is
holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!
Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy
Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cassady
holy the unknown buggered and suffering
beggars holy the hideous human angels!
Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks
of the grandfathers of Kansas!
Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop
apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana
hipsters peace & junk & drums!
Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy
the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the
mysterious rivers of tears under the streets!
Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the
middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion
Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles!
Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria &
Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow
Holy Istanbul!
Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the
clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy
the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch!
Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the
locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucinations
holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss!
Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours!
bodies! suffering! magnanimity!
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
Elizabeth Peyton : Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith to Holly Solomon.
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