Now that Ai Weiwei has his passport back, will he make it to New York in time to catch Clayton Patterson’s art exhibition, “Outside In”? Ai says he’s heading to Berlin, and he’s planning shows of his own in London. Since ‘Outside In” at the Howl Gallery runs only through mid-August, chances are he won’t […]
Archives for July 2015
And Now for a Different Kind of Music
It wasn’t intended as such. All the gear-shifting — the whining, growling, screaming soundtrack — makes the difference. Minus that it’s just a meandering road trip (at high speed, granted, on Paris streets). And that kiss? Strictly branding. Mere advertising. C'était un rendez-vous – 1976 from LeCatalog on Vimeo. Here’s the music again, Hollywood-style: EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
‘Lighthouse’ (Refugee Music by a Pacific Expatriate)
Composed in 2010 by Dylan Mattingly, 19 years old at the time, the piece was recently recorded by Contemporaneous, with David Bloom conducting, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
‘Freedom Is a Career’ — Obituary for Mike Lesser
By Heathcote Williams His approach to life and politics was fueled by emotion rather than the twisted logic of compliance. Finding himself born into an era when life on earth seemed daily–and increasingly–under threat, Mike Lesser’s logic was visceral. Other Angry Young Men long ago may have mellowed and somehow come to terms with a […]
The Outsider Writer on the Inside of the Outside
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Charles Plymell (Charley to those who know him, Charlie to those who don’t) has been an outsider for decades, self-declared and otherwise, railing against everything that smacks of the inside — especially the arbiters of government arts grants, who have unfailingly overlooked him, even against his old friend Allen Ginsberg, whom he relentlessly excoriates for […]
Mike Lesser, R.I.P.: ‘In Conversation With a Dying Friend’
Heathcote Williams’s elegy is a meditation on death. Alan Cox reads it. The collage portrait of Mike Lesser as a young man is by Claire Palmer. The text of ‘In Conversation With a Dying Friend’ is posted for reading at IT: International Times. “ . . . my atoms will just disappear. “There’ll be a […]
Artist Bronzes Writer’s Life and Work in a Store Window
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The German artist Vera Bonsen has a window assemblage currently on display in a Heidelberg storefront that bronzes the life and writings of the American expatriate poet Cody Maher. The paper hangings consist of poems, diaries, photos and so on from 30 years’ worth of manuscripts. The artifacts include hats, a pair of boxing gloves, […]
Li Po Refills His Cup: A Little Song for All Seasons
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“Life in the World is but a big dream …” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Queers & Comics: Alison Bechdel
Click in at 14’30”. That gets you right to the funny, smart, invariably entertaining cartoonist telling her story. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit