Vitro Nasu

(Senior Trip)

Taylor Mead dies at 88. (Bowery Boogie)

Andy Newman – NYtimes city room…

Taylor Mead, the Warhol “superstar,” Beat poet, stray-cat feeder and sweet face and voice of an era, died on Wednesday at 88, taking a large slice of Lower Manhattan’s cultural history with him. (via NYtimes City room)

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Interview – Taylor Mead

What happened when you came to New York?
I got into the poetry scene in the 50’s. We were all protesting, it was a revolutionary time….many people from the Midwest, disinherited like me, came to New York to the coffeehouses, and with BOB DYLAN, and WOODY ALLEN, and BIILL COSBY, and ALLEN GINSBERG, and GREGORY CORSO, we were “outré”, avant-garde , and we read our stuff.

You shot Nude Restaurant on drugs?
We shot Nude restaurant, we shot it as we shot it, because we were stoned. Unfortunately I knew Viva’s private life. Her family life. So I think she wanted to be glamorous, and her childhood, but I made her stick to the story, she was magnificent. It’s one of my favorites.

Poet, Painter. Performer..

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See more from Churner and Churner

Alice Liddell ( 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, inspired the children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Jane Jacobs
(Digital image by Fung Lin Hall)

Jane Jacob – May 4 1916

Jane Jacob was an American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies. Her influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city-dwellers.

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Mel, Audrey and Truman Capote

Aurdrey Hepburn was born on May 4 1929 – she was discovered by Colette (see biography on youtube here)

Audrey speaks many languages (youtube)

See portraits of Miranda July

Previously…

Wiliam Lamson and Miranda July

The Hallway and Low Tech

Act Natural – This Moment Miranda

Sedaris says he was “completely, mysteriously shaken up” by July’s story when he first read it.

Earliest known photo of the boston marathon - 1904

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Dan Chelotti’s Haiku a day..

Some samples..

TUESDAY, APRIL 2.

Pushkin in a dream:
Air conditioner repair?
You do not need this
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MONDAY, APRIL 1.

Standing in Boston
Smoking outside the bookfair
I long for Boston

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(photos by Fung Lin Hall)

Adam Gopnik – Lost and Found (New Yorker)

Allen Ginsberg and Michael Andre photo by Anne Turyn 1982

Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg competed for the attention of the young. They hated each other. (Michael Andre tweeted)

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Andy Warhol holding Unmuzzled Ox.

At one time Andy Warhol seemed the pinnacle of mysterious fame and glamour — beyond comprehension. He certainly seemed that way to me — and I published interviews with him in three different magazines. But when Andy died ten years later, it turned out he was secretly a practicing Roman Catholic. I was surprised. So were people like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. I was raised Catholic. The Banal Catholic Church I call it; it’s as real as sparrows. Allen and William were not raised Catholic; now they understood why they hated Andy. Andy Warhol :No poetry)

someone asked Michael what made the Ox go. Why was it successful?
“Contributors,” said Andre. “When you have good writers with something to say, people want to read them. The magazine sells.”

The Unmuzzled Ox does have good writers with with something to say. Andre himself is one of them.

Michael Andre – poet, publisher, critic (Riverrun bookshop blog)

Daniel Berrigan, Eugene McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Denise Levertov, Robert Peters, Robert Creeley and Gregory Corso. OX frequently features photographs of contributors by Gerard Malanga. (via Michael Andre wiki)

Robert Creeley on Andre’s third book, Studying the Ground for Holes.
These poems “are a very great pleasure – lovely quick wit, like they say, with everything connecting. The cat’s Jammies.. Thank god they’re not lost! Canada takes over the New York School single handed ——clapping.”

Paul Thek was his sculptor

Although the Germans in their wars
shot my uncle and grandfather

and the Holocaust and Vietnam perturb,
AIDS kills my friends: (continue ELEGY FOR A CENTURY OF AIDS )

Unmuzzled Ox (M. Andre’s blog)

Parade wiki

In 1917 Guillaume Apollinare first coined the word Surrealism in the program notes for the ballet Parade; partly reproduced here.
It was an extraordinary gathering of enormous talents with the set, curtain and costumes by Pablo Picasso (these pictures seldom seen and never published)

The scenario was by Jean Cocteau; and the score by Erik Satie.

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Collaboration with Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau (youtube)

More image from Flickr

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Paperware. (4 images here) by JTWine full body armor
selected images from the paper wear clothes line: shopping bags, color sheets & safety pins; posing in hat-masks, bibs, loin cloth, skirts and ties, 2003-2005, with Silvia Nonenmacher

Jurgen Trautwein NOW - (Jtwine blog)

Mike Kelley (many fabulous images from Contemporary Art Daily)

Dance from Tearoom

Paper man (Oscar award winning animated short)

I didn’t get much sleep last night
thinking about underwear
Have you ever stopped to consider
underwear in the abstract
When you really dig into it
some shocking problems are raised
Underwear is something
we all have to deal with
Everyone wears
some kind of underwear
The Pope wears underwear I hope
The Governor of Louisiana
wears underwear
I saw him on TV
He must have had tight underwear
He squirmed a lot (excerpt from Poetry Foundation)

Happy birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
Photo by Elsa Dorfman

See his paintings

Lawrence as the statue of liberty

Pity thy Nation (youtube reading)
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Rebecca Horn Photo by Evelyn Hofer

Her birthday too.. (see previous post – the upside down Piano etc).
Concert for Anarchy

Rebecca Horn was born March 24, 1944, in Michelstadt, Germany. As a young girl, Horn read Johann Valentin Andreae’s Die chymische Hochzeit des Christian Rosenkreutz and Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus, which cultivated the artist’s interest in alchemy, Surrealist machines, and the absurd.

Victor Grippo (10 May 1936– February 2002) was an Argentine painter, engraver and sculptor, considered the father of conceptual art in Argentina.

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Van Gogh & Victor Grippo

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Jorge Macchi - Buenos Aires, Argentina (his homepage)

Ana Mendieta
A work from Mendieta’s “Silueta” series

Naked Window Fatal Marriage of Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre

(Hollis Frampton worked with Carl Andre )

Salcedo

Doris Salcedo

Salcedo at Tate (Shiboleth)

Salcedo at Art 21

Carlos Amorales

Carlos Amorales Mexico CIty
Black Cloud – Black Paper Moths

Order, Chaos & the Space Between Phoenix Art Museum (Feb 6 – May 5)

It will include more than 50 works from across Latin America, by artists including Gego, Félix Gonzalez-Torres, Matthias Goeritz, Jorge Macchi, Hélio Oiticica, and Doris Salcedo, as well as other many other innovative artists whose works figure prominently in today’s global contemporary art scene.

Beginning in 1995, Diane and Bruce Halle, longtime Phoenix residents and supporters of Phoenix Art Museum, began collecting the art of Latin America as a way to both educate themselves in this area and to build greater awareness of this historically undervalued and overlooked region in the art world.

Review

Artbook here

UNstabile-Mobile

Installation of historical documents and vinyl text, framed New Yorker magazine and Calder like sculptural model of Iraqi oilfields on custom made platform with zenithal light.

Alessandro Yazbeck Venezuela

Poetic justice

Hollis Frampton was born on March 11, 1936 who was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer/theoretician, and pioneer of digital art.

A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY – Brooklyn Rail

We propose another, radically different morphology … one that views film, not from the outside, as a product to be consumed, but from the inside, as a dynamically evolving organic code directly responsive and responsible, like every other code, to the supreme mediator: consciousness.

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(nostalgia) by Hollis Frampton 1/4

Harvard film archive

Mysterious woman in white. (His wife who could not be reached)

Resurrection of Hollis Frampton (youtube – text on green screen)

Interview Hollis Frampton (Chicago 1978) (38 min long)

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March 5, 1922 – birthday of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Image by Zilda

Pasolini Speaks

Pier Paolo Pasolini is without question one of the most controversial filmmakers who ever lived. He is also among the most fascinating. He brought rigorous social and artistic philosophies to every project he embarked on, and boldly voiced beliefs that provoked consternation in others.

Arts Martyr the Drawings and Paintings of Pier Paulo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini: Portraits, Self Portraits at Location One in Soho is timed to coincide with the Pasolini film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (December 13, 2012-January 5, 2013). The forty drawings and paintings on display present a crucial if little-known aspect of the artist’s multifaceted genius, but its pleasures are not reserved solely for the Pasolini-obsessed.

Pasolini’s Legacy of a Sprawl of Brutality

Films of Paulo Pier Pasonlini at MoMa

Giotto’s Dream (Previous post)

Thomas_McEvilley was an American art critic, poet, novelist and scholar, who was a distinguisted lecturer in art history at Rice University [1] and founder and former chair of the Department of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City
Thomas McEvilley studied Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and classical philosophy.

Thomas McEvilley (born 1939, Cincinnati, Ohio – died March 2 2013)
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Art and Otherness

Directly following the internationally acclaimed Art & Discontent, Thomas McEvilley argues in Art & Otherness for an advanced anthropological perspective that contravenes conventional thinking in the visual arts, and leads to a concept of artistic globalization.

Yves Klein the Provocateur and Pat Steir

17 ancient poems (Jacket)

14 Poems read by Thomas McEvilley (vimeo)

Heidi Pollard
Four Immeasurables, 2011
Papier mâché on board, black gesso
31 x 29 inches
Courtesy of Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe

May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness; may we be free from suffering and the causes of suffering; may we never be separated from the great happiness that knows no suffering; may we abide in equanimity, free from attachment, aversion and ignorance. those are the four immeasurables… Heidi Pollard

Turtle Quail
2011
oil on canvas
16 x 16 inches

Heidi Pollard – Homepage (See more Heidi’s delicious art)

Art on Edge (New Mexico Art Museum – Jan 18 – April 14, 2013 )

Heidi Poallard interviewed by Astrid Bowlby (NYARTS magazine)

AB: I have to ask you about humor because we’re both kind of goofy. Some of your paintings are very goofy; some are very serious; sometimes it’s what you’ve titled them. Like Boot: ‘boot’ just makes Boot even goofier.

HP: There’s an aspect of humor that’s all about the pleasure of silliness. A title can point out that it’s ok to laugh, that, in fact, it is funny. Or it’s serious in a way that includes laughter, you know? It’s very human.

****And ONE Immeasurable fact… it was fun to meet Heidi Pollard whose works I admire and enjoy on my last ski trip to Taos.