Yes, we know about 9/11. We’re still reeling from it. The event itself was catastrophic. But the pols and war profiteers have put it to ruinous use ever since. So I’ll save my customary Best 9/11 Memorial posting for next year, when the 10th anniversary comes around. Besides, how many times can you post Still […]

Have a look at the Web site for the Fluxus exhibition Experimental Women in Flux at the Museum of Modern Art Library. The curators write: In the spirit of MoMA’s publication of Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art in June 2010, the Museum Library features experimental works by women that form […]

Abbie Conant, that is — the trombonist, actor, singer, poet, feminist, and professor, whom Malcolm Gladwell wrote about in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

The last time I mentioned Supervert, the nom de plume of a writer I know, the headline, Better Than a Review, referred to a YouTube video that a fan made about Supervert’s latest book, Perversity Think Tank. The other day, an interview with Supervert showed up on the Web site Dark Markets that led me […]

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I once asked Nelson Algren what he thought of Naked Lunch. He was living in Hackensack, N.J., getting by on Social Security and whatever he won at Aqueduct. He still wrote the occasional book review and received small but steady royalties from his two most famous novels, The Man With the Golden Arm and A […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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

Josh Brown, a historian who heads the Social History Project / Center for Media Learning at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has been posting his visual blog Life During Wartime once a week since 2003. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

… I am happy to say … with another jaundice-yellow antidote to all things purple… …including purple prose. Which is just what the doctor ordered. As I was reminded by these remarks, per Claude Pélieu on Flypaper, ‘tiz “a voice w/out make-up.” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

By way of introduction … Claude Pélieu, «l’iconoclaste, le déflagrateur» Francœur dixit, s’est éclipsé, après bien des morflances, le 24 décembre 2002, à Norwich, dans l’état de N Y. Après avoir plaisanté avec Mary au téléphone en lui détaillant le programme des festivités organisées par l’hosto pour ce jour de Noël. Il a chambré une […]