Saturday, April 2, 2011

MUSIC BENJAMIN BIOLAY - LA FIN DES COURS - VINYL - DESIGN M/M PARIS - NAÏVE - 2011





design M/M paris
Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag

THE ANDY MONUMENT - ROB PRUITT - ARTIST - NEW YORK - 2011





The corner of Broadway and 17th Street was the location of one of Andy Warhol’s Factories in the 1970s and early ’80s. So what more appropriate spot to honor Andy than that?

Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the artist, Rob Pruitt, having been inspired by the art and life of Andy (like so many of us), unveiled a nearly ten-foot-tall sculpture, The Andy Monument. As the silver cloth was lifted, Pruitt appropriately exclaimed that he hoped the monument would last more than 15 minutes. Thanks so much to Public Art for making life on the streets more interesting. Admirers were already leaving soup cans at Andy’s feet to celebrate him.

The sculpture, fittingly facing downtown (and, by the way, directly looking at a statue of Gandhi at the other end of Union Square), depicts Andy with Polaroid camera and shopping bag filled with what else but copies of Interview magazine that he handed out to people on the streets. Andy was old-school in that way and loved to walk around and give away the latest issue. If you were lucky, he might have even signed one for you. I think that Andy would have loved the sculpture in how slim he looked.


Friday, April 1, 2011

FILM JANE BIRKIN - MES IMAGES PRIVEES DE SERGE - ARTE - SERGE GAINSBOURG - 2011























Mes Petites Odalisques (Archive INA, 1957)
La Cigale Et La Fourmi (Archive INA, 1961)
J'Ai Oublié D'Être Bête (Archive INA, 1961)
La Javanaise (Création Historique Du Titre - Archive INA, 1962)
Chanson Pour Tézigue (Archive INA, 1963)
Une Petite Tasse D'Anxiété (Duo Avec Gillian Hills - Archive INA, 1963)
Le Temps Des Yoyos (Archive INA, 1964)
Ne Dis Rien (Duo Avec Anna Karina - Archive INA, 1968)
Valse De L'Adieu (Chopin) (Instrumental Serge Gainsbourg Au Piano - Archive INA, 1962)
J'Ai Mal À La Tête (Archive INA, 1962)
Les Petits Pavés (Archive INA, 1967)
Parce Que (Archive Europe 1, 1975)
J'Entends Siffler Le Train (Archive Europe 1, 1975)
Les Play-Boys (Archive Europe 1, 1975)