A recent reminder about the “incredible translation job” done on Mary Beach’s Die Elektrische Banane by Walter Hartmann and Gregor Pott got me to thinking that somebody should say it: James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake meets William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch in that book. It’s not the particulars of the subject matter so much as Beach’s attitude […]
Archives for July 2010
La Dada Mama
More from the e-mail bag: Ah yes, what a BOLD approach to human physiognomy, I must admit, in those collages you show here! And yet, being a Höch aficionado I’ll have to insist it wasn’t Mr Paolozzi but Hannah Höch who first applied a human silhouette cut-out in her collage work, back in 1931, in […]
Vienna Phil Circle Jerks Are Still Jacking Off;
Government Pays, Despite Cancelled Contract
News from the e-mail bag: Austrian Federal Government cancels Vienna Philharmonic funding contract, but transfers money to twin orchestra, the Vienna State Opera By William Osborne On October 16, 2000, the Austrian Federal Government signed a contract with the Vienna Philharmonic that gave the orchestra yearly funding of $2.91 million (€2.29 million) for a period […]
Tuli Kupferberg, R.I.P.
Gone. But not forgotten. There will be a funeral service open to the public on Saturday, July 17th, 11:45 a.m.-3 p.m, at St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 E.10th St., in Manhattan. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Auntie Foo Checks Back In … Yum!
The first time Auntie Foo checked in, an anonymous comment arrived with savvy guesswork about auntie’s identity and some excellent info and illustrations about the art of collage. A bit of sleuthing revealed that the anonymous commenter was Walter Hartmann, an old associate of Carl Weissner, Jorg Fauser, and Jurgen Ploog, from their GASOLIN 23 […]
Gysin’s Mice Come Out to Play
“Brion Gysin: Dream Machine” opens today at the New Museum, in New York, and runs through Oct. 3. It is the first U.S. retrospective of Gysin’s work as painter, performer, poet, and writer. Here’s the museum’s spiel: Working simultaneously in a variety of mediums, Gysin was an irrepressible inventor, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit whose […]
BACH & friends Heads to San Francisco
Mike Lawrence’s two-hour documentary — featuring Simone Dinnerstein, the Emerson String Quartet, Joshua Bell, and Philip Glass, to name just a few — has its San Francisco premiere on July 14 at the Sundance Cinema Kabuki Theater. Patty Gessner, executive producer of the San Francisco Classical Voice, set up the screening as a fund-raiser for the […]
Goo Goo GaGa …
Does this film by Andres Serrano and Francesco Carrozzini have the July 4th holiday written all over it, or wot? Brutus Faust – “Goo Goo GaGa” It reminds us of the many wonderful reasons to celebrate Independence Day, doncha think? EmailFacebookTwitterReddit