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Carolee
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Carolee Scheemann

Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.

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Carolee Schneeman on Robert Morris (See photo of their collaboration)

OH DEAR BOB . . . your death is unacceptable. Your absence joins the current stampede of death, diminishing the continued conversations among my generation. Missing in action. I am so grateful for our wonderfully enriching history and for the configuration of friends and work that surrounds the years we shared. We were neighbors here in the Hudson Valley, and it’s wrenching to consider that we cannot anticipate more good times together.

Carolee Schneemann
Terminal Velocity
2001-2005, impressions jet d’encre 96 x 84 chacune. Collection Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart

Intime Images Mediatsisees pour reflechir histoire

Conversation with Carolee Schneemann

Artplus interview

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Photo by Fung Lin Hall (Scottsdale, Arizona)

The Dolls – (Directed by Takeshi Kitano, Poland gave this the best film award – costume design by Yoji Yamamoto)

Name these girls – Happy Hinamatsuri album

Google Hinamatsuri

The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period. Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits. Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し, lit. “doll floating”), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them.(via wiki)

James Merrill, Stonington, Connecticut, June 1973; photograph by Jill Krementz
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James Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995)

Log

“[…] Now and then
“It is given to see clearly. There
“Is what remains of you, a body
“Unshaven, flung on the sofa. Stains of egg
“Harden about the mouth, smoke still
“Rises between fingers or from nostrils.
“The eyes deflect the stars through years of vacancy.
“Your agitation at such moments
“Is all too human. You and the stars
“Seem both endangered, each
“At the other’s mercy. Yet the gem
“Revolves in space, the vision shuttles off.
“A toneless waltz glints through the pea-sized funhouse.
“The day is breaking someone else’s heart”

~ birthday celebrant James Merrill.

Thanks to Chris Schneider for the poem above.

Poetry Foundation

Timothy Spall was born on Feb 27.

Bruno Ganz – interview.

RIP Bruno Ganz

Sally Potter’s most anticipated film – Molly

Julie Christie
Julie Christie was in Sally Potter’s early film.

Wave to Orlando – (Tilda and Sally Potter) (previous post)

Japanese Literature Scholar, Translater Donald Keene died at 96.

Akutagawa Hiroshi, Mishima and Donald Keene
Mishima (his final performance)

His autobiography is an excellent read.. what an amazing life.

Keene Observation (On his 84th birthday)

Donald Keene

Interesting review of his book by Colin Marshall.. Donald Keene on Familiar Terms.

Enigmatic Emperor

Stanley Donen dies at 94

Two for the Road

Indiscreet

Stanley Donen dated Elizabeth Taylor, married many times, condolences to Elaine May who has been his partner.

Edward Gorey near one of the Nadelman sculptures on the promenade at the NY State Theater, 1973. Photograph: Bruce Chernin. Image provided by the Alpern Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
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Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000)

“He was a precocious child. He claimed to have read all the works of Victor Hugo by the age of eight.”

Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey Love of George Balanchine Part I

Feb 22 – Int’l cat day in Japan .. see Gorey with cat here.

Wes Anderson is under the spell of Edward Gorey

Two roommates

Poet Frank O’Hara and macabre writer and illustrator Edward Gorey were roommates at Harvard in the late ’40s, where they furnished their apartment with garden furniture and a coffee table made from a repurposed tombstone. According to The New Yorker, the pair “established their rooms as (in the words of a home-town friend) the spot to ‘lie down on a chaise lounge, get mellow with a few drinks, and listen to Marlene Dietrich records.’” Pompous and eccentric? Perhaps. But we bet their room was the coolest place on campus.

Ellen Harvey

Night Hawk

Metal Painting 2015
Harvard Magazine – Art is a Dark Mirror

Ellen Harvey’s reflective installations

“Darling” with Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey. .

John Schlesinger
A Kind of Loving.. his first film, starring Alan Bates.

Old Obit from Independent

Oscar-winning director of ‘Midnight Cowboy’ who brought a fresh approach and contemporary viewpoint to his film,
John Richard Schlesinger, film director: born London 16 February 1926

Terence Stamp. See Nicolas Roeg’s spectacular cinematography from here.

“Sunday Bloody Sunday” – his most personal film –

Ian Bruma was his newphew.

Conversation with John Schlesinger

RIP Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper (American Friend directed by Wim Wenders, based on a story by Patricia Highsmith )

From angel to Hitler
headlines splashed.

On filming in Beirut,

Volker Schlöndorf, said that Bruno Ganz was distressed with the war experience whereas Hanna felt quite comfortable in the midst of chaos.

Circle of Deceit see another photo here ‘

Marquis d’O – directed by Eric Rohmer
(Marquis d”O was based on the novel by Heinrich von Kleist)

Isabelle Huppert posted two photos on FB (did not know about these two films, both actors so prolific).

Bruno Ganz was in Australia working with Gillian Armstrong in Last Days in Chez Nous.

Thank you Bruno Ganz!

Yves Klein & Rotrout

In 1962, Rotraut and Klein married in Paris. Klein died six months later, while Rotraut was pregnant with their son’

Rotrout divides her time between Phoenix, Arizona, Paris and Sydney Australia.
Brother of Rotrout Uecker is Gunter Uecker

My Paintings are only the ashes of my art – Yves Klein

Jutta and R. D.Laing.

Mad to be Normal – reviewed by Psychology Today

Gabriel Byrne played a mad patient in Mad to be Normal.

Happy Valentine’s day!