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Friday, March 11, 2011

DIARY LYLYBYE - JACK KEROUAC AND THE BEAT GENERATION - 2011

NEW YORK CITY—Poetry and folk singing at McSorley's Saloon, 1959

Bowery Blues

The story of man

Makes me sick

Inside, outside,

I don't know why

Something so conditional

And all talk

Should hurt me so.

I am hurt

I am scared

I want to live

I want to die

I don't know

Where to turn

In the Void

And when

To cut

Out

For no Church told me

No Guru holds me

No advice

Just stone

Of New York

And on the cafeteria

We hear

The saxophone

O dead Ruby

Died of Shot

In Thirty Two,

Sounding like old times

And de bombed

Empty decapitated

Murder by the clock.

And I see Shadows

Dancing into Doom

In love, holding

TIght the lovely asses

Of the little girls

In love with sex

Showing themselves

In white undergarments

At elevated windows

Hoping for the Worst.

I can't take it

Anymore

If I can't hold

My little behind

To me in my room

Then it's goodbye

Sangsara

For me

Besides

Girls aren't as good

As they look

And Samadhi

Is better

Than you think

When it starts in

Hitting your head

In with Buzz

Of glittergold

Heaven's Angels

Wailing

Saying

We've been waiting for you

Since Morning, Jack

Why were you so long

Dallying in the sooty room?

This transcendental Brilliance

Is the better part

(of Nothingness

I sing)

Okay.

Quit.

Mad.

Stop.

Kerouac Jack

NEW YORK CITY—A poetry reading, 1959

NEW YORK CITY—Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Gregory Corso in Greenwich Village, 1957

American writer William Burroughs, living at the Hotel Du Vieux Paris, Rue Git, 1970

LIVERPOOL, England—At the Blue Angel Beat club, 1964

Jack Kerouac

BOOK 'NOT IN FASHION' - PHOTOGRAPHY & FASHION IN THE 90'S - MMK MUSEUM FÜR MODERNE KUNST - FRANKFURT - 2011

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt/Main is showing how fashion changes our view of the world. In the 1990s, the fashion scene fundamentally reinvented specifically the medium of photography. That decade gave rise to a new generation for whom personal identity, individualism and a self-defined style were of crucial importance. Back then, the joie de vivre of the generation of 20-30 year-old creative minds thrived on music, subculture, intimacy and fashion. A new notion of corporeality was being celebrated in the major capitals of the world, such as London, New York, Tokyo, Berlin and Paris. The protagonists of this era sought to distinguish themselves from the established art and fashion scenes, and develop an alternative, lived counter-culture. They felt that the overly artificial images of prêt-à-porter, haute couture and glossy fashion magazines needed to be overcome and replaced with “real life” pictures instead Youth-Culture. They thus collectively dismissed the notion of the beautiful, and tried to elide gender differences and other social conventions.

The exhibition at MMK demonstrates just how radical and innovative this new generation was and highlights the strong impact it has had on the visual arts to this very day. The complex show will present some 200 works of photography, original documents along with an extensive program of live events, illustrating the cross-fertilization and mutual influence of fashion design, photography and art. This is expressed first and foremost in magazines such as i-D Magazine, The Face, Six, Visionaire, and Purple. Ten photographers, all of whom are trailblazers of that decade, will showcase selected works and series in the rooms of MMK, with artists such Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, Anders Edström and Jüergen Teller... choosing specific works from that era and presenting them in a new, contemporary context.

The comprehensive historical documentation of the 1990s fashion scene, and it gives a striking impression of creative practices of the day, forms a pivotal element of the exhibition. Reproductions of influential photo stories and innovative ad campaigns by the likes of Helmut Lang, Jürgen Teller or Yohji Yamamoto will be on show as will a large selection of original fashion magazines. Graphic designers M/M (Paris), who since the beginning of the 1990s have done pioneering work in fashion, advertising and magazine design, will compile this documentary overview for the exhibition.

MATHIAS AUGUSTYNIAK - DRAWING - M/M PARIS - 2011

The amazing drawing that Mathias Augustyniak did for Olympia Le-Tan’s Housewive’s Choice collection.

http://olympialetan.tumblr.com

DIARY LYLYBYE - KAREN KILIMNIK - ARTIST - 2011

Karen Kilimnik

Keira Knightley - The Duchess

Karen Kilimnik

Karen Kilimnik_Two Dancers on a stage, Paris 2004

Karen Kilimnik

Karen Kilimnik, Two Dancers on a stage, Paris, 2004

AARON CURRY - ARTIST - DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY

Aaron Curry Algebra Headdress, 2009, unique silkscreen and gouache on paper, 113 x 85 inches (287 x 215.9 cm)

Aaron Curry Mixelplitz-Masked Mug, 2009, unique silkscreen and gouache on paper, 113 x 85 inches (287 x 215.9 cm)

Aaron Curry Skinless Shape, 2009, silkscreen on paper, 113 x 85 inches (287 x 215.9 cm)

Aaron Curry Untitled, 2007, (detail) collage and gouache

Aaron Curry Untitled, 2010, silkscreen, gouache, and ink on paper, 59.5 x 43 inches (151.1 x 109.2 cm)

http://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/?n=artists&aid=4