Vitro Nasu

1973: Democratically elected President Salvador Allende moments away from death during military coup at Moneda presidential palace in Chile. (World Press Photo Winners – Orlando Lagos)

Ken Loach Chile 1973

Salvador Allende Age 4 Photo via

A line from Salvador Allende

Balancing between abstract
expressionism & futurism
the calm metal instrument
of my voice tweaks the once-

sacred double-helix to create
pyramids in bold colors &
textures. Exquisite tropes. The
great avenues will open again.

Mark Young Sept 19 2011 (gamma way from Australia)

Isabel Allende (Mother Jones) interview.

Isabel Allende went into exile after her uncle, Chilean president Salvador Allende, was overthrown in a CIA-assisted coup in 1973. She traveled, worked as a journalist, and wrote her books, “The House of the Spirits,” “Of Love and Shadows,” “Eva Luna,” and “The Stories of Eva Luna.” Her latest novel, “The Infinite Plan,” is set, as is she, in Northern California.

Gore Vidal died – he was 86. (LA Times)
Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer (Nytimes)

Early reactions of his passing from his homepage

Italo Calvino on Gore Vidal Imagining Vidal

Gore Vidal on Italo Calvino

Gore Vidal at (via Waggish)

photo via

Gore, Vonnegut and Mailer here.

Paris Review interview – Gore Vidal

Documentary Gore Vidal

Anais Nin and Gore
(via)

NY Magazine (Best of Enemies)

Life in Feuds: How Gore Vidal gripped a nation..

On Gay Marriage

Since heterosexual marriage is such a disaster, why on earth would anybody want to imitate it?”

On Obama
He has a total inability to understand military matters. He’s acting as if Afghanistan is the magic talisman: solve that and you solve terrorism. … He f***ed [health care] up. I don’t know how because the country wanted it. We’ll never see it happen” (via)

Posted by Sheep Ish on Banksy’s wall on FB.

Happy birthday Banksy!

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Previous posts –
happy rat year

Banksy in Palestine

Dinh Q. Lê
Born in Ha-Tien, Vietnam – Dinh Q. Lê a Vietnamese American fine arts photographer, best known for his woven-photographs.

Hong Chun Zhang
Via Juxtapose

China-born, Kansas-based artist Hong Chun Zhang has a fascination with hair.

Paris View interview

Joseph Heller May 1, 1923

Books by Josep Heller: No Laughing Matter, Now and Then,Catch 22, Something Happend, Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This. He did screnplays for Sex & single girl, Casino Royale, Dirty Dingus Magee.

“Do not make war in a hostile distant land unless you intend to live there. The people will outnumber you, your presence will be alarming, the government you install to keep order will not keep order, victory is impossible if the people keep fighting, there is only genocide to cope with determined military resistance.” – Picture This – Joseph Heller

Oh, shit, sighed the elderly author and chuckled to himself once more. He was not surprised, and began to think seriously of writing the book you’ve just read’…The End..’Portrait of an artist as an old man – Joseph Helle

Beat Poet

Who is Robert Hass?

Robert Hass is one of contemporary poetry’s most celebrated and widely-read voices. In addition to his success as a poet, Hass is also recognized as a leading critic and translator, notably of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and Japanese haiku masters Basho, Buson and Issa.

From Robert Hass interview.. we learned..

The first book that really knocked me out was the “Brothers Karamazov.”

“I Am Your Waiter Tonight, and My Name Is Dimitri”

(Robert Hass reading a poem at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival)

Edward Hopper Hotel Room..(Instant Librarian)

O what sadness unaware that it’s sadness! What despair that doesn’t know it’s despair.

A business woman, her unpacked suitcase on the floor, sits on a bed half undressed, in red underwear, her hair impeccable; she has a piece of paper in her hand, probably with numbers.

Who are you? Nobody will ask. She doesn’t know either.

Copyright 2007 by Robert Hass/ Czeslaw Milosz

At Queens College in New York, an audience member asked Hass what it was like spending decades translating Milosz. He answered: “Like being alive twice”.

One more poem
Heroic Smiles

“On Thursday afternoon

when I returned toward sundown to the steps to see how the students had responded, the air was full of balloons, helium balloons to which tents had been attached, and attached to the tents was kite string. And they hovered over the plaza, large and awkward, almost lyrical, occupying the air. ” Poet Robert Hass wrote on Nov 20 NY times

Occupy lunch
Poster for Free Lunch Served on the High Line (Union Square NY) – Photo via Herman Costa

Bart is a mass transit in San Francisco. (Photo by Jurgen Trautwein)

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas

Makana

Makana means ‘gift’ in Hawaiian.

Occupy Hilo Eat What You Grow

Over 40 persons showed up in Downtown Hilo to plant taro and other edible plants in the median strips on Kamehameha Avenue. What had been weeds and roundup became wonderful edible landscapes in just two hours. The vibe was so positive and the intention will reverberate and hopefully spread across the globe. (Eat What You Grow )

Dorli Rainy from Austria

Beat Poet has new meaning Robert Hass

New Progressive Movement by Jeffrey Sachs

Occupy Anarchism Gift of Democracy

Death of a street poet

Occupy Poetry here

Rebecca Sonlit Building a better house

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Ian Hamilton Finlay

Jacket interview The Death of Piety

Obit 2006

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Individualistic Scottish artist and poet who ran his garden at Little Sparta as a separate city state

Stuart Collection at UCSD: Ian Hamilton Finlay

1895: Auguste & Louis Lumière: Le squelette joyeux

Kabocha Kusama and Let them eat pumpkin pie.

John Berryman Dream song 63

Edward Gorey a Style icon?

How it works

Where do monsters come from?

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The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden

“Even the smallest of voices need to be heard” a placard held by the young Lego artist. (Scroll down..to see her with her lego towers).

Two years ago on Oct 18 Nancy Spero passed away.

As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero’s career spanned fifty years. She was renowned for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life.

Nancy Spero

Oct 18
Birthday of James Brooks – a wonderful painter.

Wide White Flow at Paul Cooper (short clip)

Hans Haacke News – (youtube lecture)

Star gazing by Hans Haacke

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24 January 2011 post: Hans Haacke, Selected Works & Interview

You mentioned that you’d advise students to prepare for the “long haul”–how have you sustained your work through the years?

One rule I set for myself right early on was that I should not be dependent on the vagaries of the art market. It has given me a degree of independence. I wouldn’t have dared doing certain things without that. Teaching has given me the economic base one needs. But it’s not only for the money. I enjoy teaching. I learn a lot from students.

Trickle Up

Haacke’s interest in real-time systems propelled him into his criticism of social and political systems.[2] In most of his work after the late 1960s, Haacke focused on the art world and the system of exchange between museums and corporations and corporate leaders; he often underlines its effects in site-specific ways. (wiki)

Together – Hans Haacke – (Paula Cooper Gallery)

No comment and strong decisions – artists Occupy Wall Street

How they did it? From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere.

My advice to the Occupy Wall Street

Wang Ningde

Oct 10 1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China

National Day in China (see more Wang Ningde here, don’t click on dead links.)

Message from Chinese activists and academics in support of Occupy Wall Street

This letter of solidarity, signed over by 50 intellectuals and activists in China, was posted to Utopia yesterday. Thanks to everyone for the translation and editing work!

Zizek Speaks to Occupy Wall Street

He steered the discussion away from the Cold War debate between communism and capitalism, noting that former communists, particularly in China, “are today the most efficient, brutal capitalists.”
The communist revolution “failed absolutely,” he said, suggesting that “the only way we are communist is that we care about the commons,” citing the environment as an example.

Apart from that Oct 10 birthday links

Harold Pinter

Julius Schulman

Theloneous Monk

Oscar Brown Jr.

Claude Simon

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Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

Occupy wall street org.

Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall street

Occupy Together (check the listings for your local headquarters).

I support these protests (Rootaction.com)

Take a Whiz on Wall Street: Danish Artists Move JPMorgan’s Executive Bathroom to a Lower East Side Diner

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The Market is open (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)