Vitro Nasu

(Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow)

Adam Gussow

is an American scholar, memoirist, and blues harmonica player. He is currently a professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Sterling Magee (Satan & Adam wiki)

Magee recorded several near-hits on Ray Charles’s Tangerine label in the early 1960s, including “Get in My Arms Little Girl.” His proficiency on guitar earned him gigs with a number of rhythm-and-blues performers, including James Brown, King Curtis, Big Maybelle, Joey Dee and the Starliters, and a transvestite duo known as The Illusions That Create Confusion. In the mid 1970s he played sessions with Paul Winley and the Harlem Underground, a loose-knit unit that included George Benson.

Satan and Adam (on Netflix)

SATAN and ADAM – I Want You / C C Rider (youtube)

Guardian obit

Artist whose work was rooted in the city, people and daily life of London

Hypcritedesign

One of the most important figurative painters at work today and commonly associated with a circle of School of London painters that includes Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and R.B. Kitaj. At the centre of Kossoff’s work is the human figure either in isolation or in urban or domestic settings and the subject is always intimately known, whether it be the seated studio subject or people in the streets of the city.

Remembering Leon Kossoff Through His Scenes of Anxiety and Disquiet

Leon Kossoff via Timothy Taylor

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Rip Torn (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019)

(Henry Miller and Rip Torn in 1969)

Rip & Parker P.
(Happy Tears)

Happy Tears was a cool film directed by Mitchel Lichtenstein. His father did the poster. Roy Lichentenstein. Mitchel is an actor who played the gay lover in the Wedding Banquet directed by Ang Lee.

Geraldine Page

In 1963, Torn married Geraldine Page, and they remained married until her death in 1987.

Via his wiki

After moving to Hollywood, Torn made his film debut in the 1956 film Baby Doll. Torn then studied at the Actors Studio in New York under Lee Strasberg, becoming a prolific stage actor, appearing in the original cast of Tennessee Williams’ play Sweet Bird of Youth, and reprising the role in the film and television adaptations. While in New York, Torn introduced his cousin Sissy Spacek to the entertainment business, and helped her enroll in the Actors Studio

. Dennis Hopper replaced him with Jack Nicholson. Rip Torn sued Hopper in court. He said Rip pulled a knife on him. Rip said it was Hopper who did It’s on his wiki.

John Divola, Zuma 73

(Kaleidoscope)

See more from Office Baroque

(João Gilberto plays his guitar to João Marcelo & Astrud.)

Father of Bossa nova died

See more photos from here

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

The Girl from Ipanema (youtube)

Chega De Saudade

Jean Eustache and Pierre Lhomme
RIP Pierre Lhomme dies at 89.

He was behind the look of films like Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Army of Shadows’ and Jean Eustache’s ‘The Mother and the Whore.’

Pierre Lhomme filmography (his wiki)

Quartet

Sweet Movie (Pierre Clementi, directed by Dušan Makavejev.)

Four Nights a dreamer. Bresson

Four Nights of a Dreamer is based on the story White Nights written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, directed by Robert Bresson

Le Joli Mai

Chris Marker

The Voyager
Sam Shepard
(Sam Shepard, Juliette Delpy in Voyager directed by Volker Schlordorff )

Megan Rapino accepts the invitation

Megan Rapinoe and the rest of the United States Women’s National Team have been invited to visit the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after publicly stating they wouldn’t visit the White House.

Read Brian’s story – (Brian is Megan’s brother)

Megan Rapinoes’ greatest heartbreak and hope.

Happy birthday Megan Rapinoe! (July 5)

Buniel
Milkey Way

The Woman behind the mask (Criterion)
Edith Scob

Édith Scob (21 October 1937 – 26 June 2019) was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in Eyes Without a Face.

In HOLY MOTORS,Leos Carax cast the legendary French actress in a homage to her iconic breakout performance in EYES WITHOUT A FACE.

(Emmanuelle Riva and Edith Scob)
Therese

Thérèse Desqueyroux is a 1962 French film directed by Georges Franju, based on the novel of the same name by François Mauriac. Written by Franju and François Mauriac and Claude Mauriac, it stars Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret.

Mia Hansen-Løve’s gentle look at the mutability of life: “Things to Come” (2016) starring the exquisite Isabelle Huppert with Édith Scob

Alan Turing
Alan Turing by Henrik Olsen

Charles Darwin and Alan Turing

A. T. Machine

Alan Turing digital archive

(Age 16 3/4)

Chemistry

A membrane that can remove salts from water more efficiently

Google celebrates Alan Turing

What interests me about the TURING biography is not only the way it illustrates the boundaries and histories of the 20th century, but that it also seems almost like a gendered prophecy. In a horrifying way, TURING ’s body was injured by the violence of modern ideology, he lost his own body, in a way, but he also made a new one. In 1936, he published a theoretical model of a machine that was to constitute the basis of all post-war computing, making him the father of all modern computer science. And this part of his biography is a futuristic tale about thinking machines, artificial intelligence and the appearance of possible future bodies. And to me, this is a long-needed escape from biological, heterosexual reproduction. – HENRIK OLESEN for Mousse Magazine

via Gagosian
Artnews obit

Robert Therrien, Maker of Whimsical Sculptures That Enlarge the Everyday, Dead at 71

Phone wires (See more here)

Sometimes people ask whether I am a romantic or a realist artist. I would hope that I fall between the two. . . The ideal artist looks at the future and the past at the same time. The romantic artist spends more time looking backwards. The realist attempts to work in the present but emphasizes the future. However, if you try to predict the future, you seldom succeed.
—Robert Therrien

Over the past four decades, Robert Therrien (1947–2019) cultivated an expansive vernacular of forms drawn from memory and the everyday. Seemingly simple subjects—including snowmen, bows, and oilcans—acquire multiple levels of reference and association, while outsized sculptures of stacks of plates, tables and chairs, and beards shift between the ordinary and the surreal. The repetitive perfecting of chosen motifs is central to his work, imbuing objects and images with intentionality and a latent sense of the unattainable.

Red Room

Sculptures for Giants by Robert Therrien

Amusing Planet

Gloria Vanderbilt
Photo by Gordon Parks

How race is lived in America: Relations of Gordon Parks and Gloria

Vanderbilt: I was just actually looking in my diary, and Gordon and I met in April of 1954, and he came to photograph me for Life magazine. I was making my debut on the stage that summer.

Parks: Then later, when you had your exhibition, I came to photograph you again.

American photographer Richard Avedon (left, lighting a cigarette), American heiress and designer Gloria Vanderbilt, and American film director Sidney Lumet, sit at a table covered with glasses and bottles during a party for the premiere of the movie ‘East of Eden’ directed by Elia Kazan, 1955. (Photo by Getty Images)

Reinventions of Gloria Vanderbilt

Gloria V and Sidney Lumet

Gordon Parks photographed Gloria and Sidney Lumet on their wedding day, August 28, 1956.

Sad news – RIP Joyce Pensato

Artforum obit

From 2018 article – Beer with a painter Joyce Pensato

Donald as a Crossdresser (Elgawimmer)
1999, charcoal and pastel on paper
10 feet x 14 feet

From the Head & Other Places
(Elgawimmer)

Joyce Pensato homepage

Felix Lincoln